Selected writings of an eighteenth-century Venetian woman of letters /
[Book]
Elisabetta Caminer Turra ; edited and translated by Catherine M. Sama.
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2003.
1 online resource (xxxv, 234 pages) :
illustrations.
The other voice in early modern Europe
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-224) and index.
Untitled; Contents; Acknowledgments; Series Editors' Introduction; List of Abbreviations; Volume Editor's Introduction; Volume Editor's Bibliography; Part I: The Making of a Woman of Letters in the Eighteenth-Century Veneto; Part II: Women and Society; Series Editors' Bibliography; Index.
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Elisabetta Caminer Turra (1751-96) was one of the most prominent women in eighteenth-century Italy and a central figure in the international "Republic of Letters." A journalist and publisher, Caminer participated in important debates on capital punishment, freedom of the press, and the abuse of clerical power. She also helped spread Enlightenment ideas into Italy by promoting and publishing Voltaire's latest works and translating new European plays-plays she herself directed, to great applause, on Venetian stages. . Bringing together Caminer's letters, poems, and journalistic writing.
Selected writings of an eighteenth-century Venetian woman of letters.