"Which twenty-five women to include? On what criteria? How to organize them, when so many Renaissance women were active in myriad spheres, and the lines between Renaissance disciplines - literature, science, philosophy, art - were hazy and permeable? It is impossible to be exhaustive. The stories presented here are a selection - my selection - and the presentation in five parts merely a suggestion, meant to help orient the reader to the many arenas in which women left their mark."
"The stories presented here are a selection - my selection - and the presentation in five parts merely a suggestion, meant to help orient the reader to the many arenas in which women left their mark. I have chosen as my own chronological parameters the period spanning roughly the years from 1450 to 1650 - allowing for the emergence of print on the one hand (with its significant impact on women, literacy, and publication activity),"
Twenty-five Italian women from roughly 1450 to 1650 served as rulers, writers, artists, intellectuals, politicians, activists, religious reformers, and musicians, shaping multiple cultural spheres. Detailed biographical sketches of about 10–12 pages each present lives, works, and social contexts with sufficient depth for academic use. The selection is organized into five parts and framed chronologically to highlight the emergence of print and the impact of the Counter-Reformation and wars of religion. Emphasis falls on blurred disciplinary boundaries among literature, science, philosophy, and art, and on how print, literacy, and religious politics affected women’s public and intellectual activity.
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