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FEMINISM  \n􀀂  \nWoman as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and England  \nSARAH GWYNETH ROSS  \nHARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England  \nCopyright © 2009 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College  \nAll rights reserved Printed in the United States of America  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nRoss, Sarah Gwyneth, 1975– The birth of feminism : woman as intellect in renaissance Italy and England / Sarah Gwyneth Ross.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN 978-0-674-03454-9 (alk. paper)  \n1. Feminism—Italy—History. 2. Feminism—England—History.  \n3. Women and literature—Italy—History. 4. Women and literature—England—History. I. Title.  \nHQ1641 .R68 2009 305.420942—dc22 2009005164  \nFor My Father  \nQuodcumque mihi honoris laudisque est, ex te manasse profitebor.  \n􀀂  \nContents  \nNote on the Texts ix  \nIntroduction 1  \nI THE HOUSEHOLD ACADEMY, 1400–1580 17  \n1 Her Father’s Daughter 19  \n2 Household Academies in Venice and London 53 3 The Biographical Tradition 95  \n4 Models of Feminist Argument 131  \nII THE HOUSEHOLD SALON, 1580–1680 191  \n5 Learned Wives and Mothers in Italy 193  \n6 Collaborative Marriages in Britain 235  \n7 Discourses of Equality and Rights 276  \nConclusion 313  \nAbbreviations 320  \nNotes 321  \nBibliography 375  \nAcknowledgments 394  \nIndex 397  \n􀀂  \nNote on the Texts  \nThe translations that appear here are mine, unless otherwise noted. I have retained the original spellings, punctuation, and diacriticals of the Latin and Italian texts, except when meaning would have been obscured without alteration. In the interest of readability, however, I have modernized all quotations from the early modern English. My thanks again to Diana Robin and Kenneth Gouwens, classicists and Italianists of surpassing expertise, for redeeming several infelicities in my translations. And a hearty general thanks as well to the many splendid critical editions that I have consulted, which have both steadied and enriched my interaction with early modern women’s writings. 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