Virginia Cox
Biographic Data
| ID | 5846764 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Virginia Cox |
| GIVEN NAMES | Virginia |
| FAMILY NAME | Cox |
| SIGNATURE | COX V |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Early Modern Lyric Communities and Print Culture
This essay explores a feature of the sixteenth-century Italian lyric tradition that has not been studied in the detail it deserves: the ongoing “social turn” of the later decades of the century. Social poetry, in a broad sense (verse that thematizes social relationships, exchanges, and events) came to occupy an ever-greater space within verse collections of the period, and paratexts developed to facilitate an informed social reading, such as the …
Quintilian in the Italian Renaissance
The century that followed Poggio Bracciolini’s discovery of a complete manuscript of Quintilian’s Institutio oratoria at the Swiss monastery of St Gall in 1416 represents a vital stage within the text’s transmission and reception. The new text fell on fertile soil, at a time when the classicizing movement known as humanism was rapidly reshaping Italian elite education and literary and intellectual culture, and when the introduction of printing wo…
An Unknown Early Modern New World Epic: Girolamo Vecchietti’s Delle prodezze di Ferrante Cortese (1587–88)
This article discusses an unpublished vernacular Italian New World epic of the 1580s, which narrates the Spanish conquest of Mexico. The work was authored by the traveler, diplomat, and Orientalist Girolamo Vecchietti, and it is dedicated to Ferdinando I de’ Medici, grand duke of Tuscany. Vecchietti’s poem is striking as a rare epic in terza rima, and as the sole surviving early modern Italian epic to center on the deeds of Cortés, rather than Co…
Lyric Poetry by Women of the Italian Renaissance
Cox, Virginia. Lyric Poetry by Women of the Italian Renaissance. Un article de la revue Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 38, numéro 2, printemps 2015, p. 5-201) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
The laurel and the axe: Petrarchist execution lyrics in late‐ R enaissance I taly
A little‐investigated feature of the lyric tradition in late sixteenth‐century I taly is its increased engagement with the social world. Occasional poetry in this period constitutes a potentially rich resource for social historians, yet this remains almost entirely unexploited to date. This article examines a body of verse of particular interest in this regard: a collection of around eighty mainly anonymous printed and manuscript poems commemorat…
Note: Italian Dialogues Incorporating Female Speakers
Note: Italian Dialogues Incorporating Female Speakers Virginia Cox This list includes only dialogues that may be described broadly as “realist,” not those including abstractions or historical or mythological figures as speakers.1 Short titles only are given. Full bibliographical information is available on the electronic catalogues of the Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico (see especially the sixteenth-century catalogue, edit16 (http://edit1…
The Female Voice in Italian Renaissance Dialogue
A remarkable novelty within the early modern Italian tradition of literary dialogue was its inclusion in significant numbers of women among the interlocutors portrayed. Read with due sensitivity to genre conventions, these dialogues can offer insights into gendered speech decorum that interestingly nuance the evidence offered by prescriptive texts such as conduct manuals. The essay offers an overview of early modern Italian dialogues featuring fe…
Gender and Eloquence in Ercole de' Roberti's Portia and Brutus
A commonplace of modern feminist scholarship holds that fifteenth-century Italian humanists regarded the figure of the articulate women with hostility and suspicion. This position is insufficiently nuanced: while it may have been true to some extent in republican contexts, it was emphatically not the case in the secular princely courts, where women's capacity for eloquence was frequently a subject of praise. Humanistic attitudes toward female elo…
Women's Writing in Italy, 1400–1650
This is the first comprehensive study of the remarkably rich tradition of women's writing that flourished in Italy between the fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Virginia Cox documents this tradition and both explains its character and scope and offers a new hypothesis on the reasons for its emergence and decline. Cox combines fresh scholarship with a revisionist argument that overturns existing historical paradigms for the chronology of …
Laura Battiferra and Her Literary Circle: An Anthology
Laura Battiferra degli Ammannati. Laura Battiferra and Her Literary Circle: An Anthology. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Ed. and trans. Victoria Kirkham. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. xiv + 494 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. 25 (pbk). ISBN: 0-226-03922-6 (cl), 0-226-03923-4 (pbk). - Volume 60 Issue 1
The Rhetoric of Cicero in its Medieval and Early Renaissance Commentary Tradition
This multi-authored volume, by an authoritative team of international scholars, examines the transmission of Ciceronian rhetoric in medieval and early Renaissance Europe, concentrating on the fortunes, in particular, of the two dominant classical rhetorical textbooks of the time, Cicero’s early De inventione, and the contemporary ‘pseudo-Ciceronian’ Rhetorica ad Herennium. The volume is unprecedented in range and depth as a presentation of the pl…
Rhetoric of Cicero in Its Medieval and Early Renaissance Commentary Tradition
Sixteenth-Century Women Petrarchists and the Legacy of Laura
Research Article| September 01 2005 Sixteenth-Century Women Petrarchists and the Legacy of Laura Virginia Cox Virginia Cox Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2005) 35 (3): 583–606. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-35-3-583 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Too…
Flori, a Pastoral Drama: A Bilingual Edition
Ciceronian Rhetorical Theory in the Volgare: A Fourteenth-Century Text and its Fifteenth-Century Readers
The essays in this volume, presented in honour of John O. Ward, explore the role of rhetoric in promoting reform and renewal in the Latin West from Peter Abelard (1079-1142) to Juan Luis Vives (1492-1540). Ward, who has taught for many years at the University of Sydney, has been an influential and creative force in medieval and renaissance studies both in Australia and internationally. This volume opens with a personal memoir and bibliography of …
Rhetoric and Humanism in Quattrocento Venice
This essay examines the development of humanistic rhetoric in fifteenth-century Venice, taking as its starting point a remark of Ermolao Barbaro's on the inadequacy of academic rhetorical instruction as a preparation for the practical oratorical skills necessary to Venetian civic life. It is argued that the context of Barbaro's remark is a series of humanistic polemics on rhetoric that took place in Venice and Padua in the latter decades of the Q…
The Pragmatics of Defining Religion: Contexts, Concepts and Contests
This volume promotes a pragmatic, anti-essentialist and anti-hegemonic approach to the problem of the definition of religion. It argues that definitions of religion are context-bound strategies for pursuing a variety of purposes, extra-academic as well as academic. Religions being immensely varied, complex and multi-functional phenomena, they need to be studied by several academic disciplines from many different perspectives. It is, therefore, le…
Machiavelli and the Rhetorica ad Herennium: Deliberative Rhetoric in The Prince
Family Power in Southern Italy: The Duchy of Gaeta and its Neighbours 850–1139
Family Power in Southern Italy: The Duchy of Gaeta and its Neighbours 850–1139
The Single Self: Feminist Thought and the Marriage Market in Early Modern Venice
The Year 1600 Witnessed A significant though little-noted event in Italian cultural history: the publication of the first substantial full-length works by Italian women writers arguing the case for women's moral and intellectual equality with men. The writers in question were two Venetians, Lucrezia Marinella and Modesta Pozzo (Moderata Fonte); their works, respectively, a polemical treatise, La nobilta et I'eccellenza delle donne, and a dialogue…
Language and Literature
Language and Literature
Dante's Griffin and the History of the World: A Study of the Earthly Paradise (‘Purgatorio’, cantos xxix–xxxiii)
Dante's Griffin and the History of the World: A Study of the Earthly Paradise (‘Purgatorio’, cantos xxix–xxxiii)
The Single Self: Feminist Thought and the Marriage Market in Early Modern Venice
The Year 1600 Witnessed A significant though little-noted event in Italian cultural history: the publication of the first substantial full-length works by Italian women writers arguing the case for women's moral and intellectual equality with men. The writers in question were two Venetians, Lucrezia Marinella and Modesta Pozzo (Moderata Fonte); their works, respectively, a polemical treatise, La nobilta et I'eccellenza delle donne, and a dialogue…
The Female Voice in Italian Renaissance Dialogue
A remarkable novelty within the early modern Italian tradition of literary dialogue was its inclusion in significant numbers of women among the interlocutors portrayed. Read with due sensitivity to genre conventions, these dialogues can offer insights into gendered speech decorum that interestingly nuance the evidence offered by prescriptive texts such as conduct manuals. The essay offers an overview of early modern Italian dialogues featuring fe…
Gender and Eloquence in Ercole de' Roberti's Portia and Brutus
A commonplace of modern feminist scholarship holds that fifteenth-century Italian humanists regarded the figure of the articulate women with hostility and suspicion. This position is insufficiently nuanced: while it may have been true to some extent in republican contexts, it was emphatically not the case in the secular princely courts, where women's capacity for eloquence was frequently a subject of praise. Humanistic attitudes toward female elo…
Sixteenth-Century Women Petrarchists and the Legacy of Laura
Research Article| September 01 2005 Sixteenth-Century Women Petrarchists and the Legacy of Laura Virginia Cox Virginia Cox Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2005) 35 (3): 583–606. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-35-3-583 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Too…
Rhetoric and Humanism in Quattrocento Venice
This essay examines the development of humanistic rhetoric in fifteenth-century Venice, taking as its starting point a remark of Ermolao Barbaro's on the inadequacy of academic rhetorical instruction as a preparation for the practical oratorical skills necessary to Venetian civic life. It is argued that the context of Barbaro's remark is a series of humanistic polemics on rhetoric that took place in Venice and Padua in the latter decades of the Q…
Dante's Griffin and the History of the World: A Study of the Earthly Paradise (‘Purgatorio’, cantos xxix–xxxiii)
Dante's Griffin and the History of the World: A Study of the Earthly Paradise (‘Purgatorio’, cantos xxix–xxxiii)
Language and Literature
Language and Literature
The Single Self: Feminist Thought and the Marriage Market in Early Modern Venice
The Year 1600 Witnessed A significant though little-noted event in Italian cultural history: the publication of the first substantial full-length works by Italian women writers arguing the case for women's moral and intellectual equality with men. The writers in question were two Venetians, Lucrezia Marinella and Modesta Pozzo (Moderata Fonte); their works, respectively, a polemical treatise, La nobilta et I'eccellenza delle donne, and a dialogue…
Machiavelli and the Rhetorica ad Herennium: Deliberative Rhetoric in The Prince
Family Power in Southern Italy: The Duchy of Gaeta and its Neighbours 850–1139
Family Power in Southern Italy: The Duchy of Gaeta and its Neighbours 850–1139
The Pragmatics of Defining Religion: Contexts, Concepts and Contests
This volume promotes a pragmatic, anti-essentialist and anti-hegemonic approach to the problem of the definition of religion. It argues that definitions of religion are context-bound strategies for pursuing a variety of purposes, extra-academic as well as academic. Religions being immensely varied, complex and multi-functional phenomena, they need to be studied by several academic disciplines from many different perspectives. It is, therefore, le…
Ciceronian Rhetorical Theory in the Volgare: A Fourteenth-Century Text and its Fifteenth-Century Readers
The essays in this volume, presented in honour of John O. Ward, explore the role of rhetoric in promoting reform and renewal in the Latin West from Peter Abelard (1079-1142) to Juan Luis Vives (1492-1540). Ward, who has taught for many years at the University of Sydney, has been an influential and creative force in medieval and renaissance studies both in Australia and internationally. This volume opens with a personal memoir and bibliography of …
Rhetoric and Humanism in Quattrocento Venice
This essay examines the development of humanistic rhetoric in fifteenth-century Venice, taking as its starting point a remark of Ermolao Barbaro's on the inadequacy of academic rhetorical instruction as a preparation for the practical oratorical skills necessary to Venetian civic life. It is argued that the context of Barbaro's remark is a series of humanistic polemics on rhetoric that took place in Venice and Padua in the latter decades of the Q…
Flori, a Pastoral Drama: A Bilingual Edition
Sixteenth-Century Women Petrarchists and the Legacy of Laura
Research Article| September 01 2005 Sixteenth-Century Women Petrarchists and the Legacy of Laura Virginia Cox Virginia Cox Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2005) 35 (3): 583–606. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-35-3-583 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Too…
The Rhetoric of Cicero in its Medieval and Early Renaissance Commentary Tradition
This multi-authored volume, by an authoritative team of international scholars, examines the transmission of Ciceronian rhetoric in medieval and early Renaissance Europe, concentrating on the fortunes, in particular, of the two dominant classical rhetorical textbooks of the time, Cicero’s early De inventione, and the contemporary ‘pseudo-Ciceronian’ Rhetorica ad Herennium. The volume is unprecedented in range and depth as a presentation of the pl…
Rhetoric of Cicero in Its Medieval and Early Renaissance Commentary Tradition
Laura Battiferra and Her Literary Circle: An Anthology
Laura Battiferra degli Ammannati. Laura Battiferra and Her Literary Circle: An Anthology. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Ed. and trans. Victoria Kirkham. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. xiv + 494 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. 25 (pbk). ISBN: 0-226-03922-6 (cl), 0-226-03923-4 (pbk). - Volume 60 Issue 1
Women's Writing in Italy, 1400–1650
This is the first comprehensive study of the remarkably rich tradition of women's writing that flourished in Italy between the fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Virginia Cox documents this tradition and both explains its character and scope and offers a new hypothesis on the reasons for its emergence and decline. Cox combines fresh scholarship with a revisionist argument that overturns existing historical paradigms for the chronology of …
Gender and Eloquence in Ercole de' Roberti's Portia and Brutus
A commonplace of modern feminist scholarship holds that fifteenth-century Italian humanists regarded the figure of the articulate women with hostility and suspicion. This position is insufficiently nuanced: while it may have been true to some extent in republican contexts, it was emphatically not the case in the secular princely courts, where women's capacity for eloquence was frequently a subject of praise. Humanistic attitudes toward female elo…
Note: Italian Dialogues Incorporating Female Speakers
Note: Italian Dialogues Incorporating Female Speakers Virginia Cox This list includes only dialogues that may be described broadly as “realist,” not those including abstractions or historical or mythological figures as speakers.1 Short titles only are given. Full bibliographical information is available on the electronic catalogues of the Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico (see especially the sixteenth-century catalogue, edit16 (http://edit1…
The Female Voice in Italian Renaissance Dialogue
A remarkable novelty within the early modern Italian tradition of literary dialogue was its inclusion in significant numbers of women among the interlocutors portrayed. Read with due sensitivity to genre conventions, these dialogues can offer insights into gendered speech decorum that interestingly nuance the evidence offered by prescriptive texts such as conduct manuals. The essay offers an overview of early modern Italian dialogues featuring fe…
Lyric Poetry by Women of the Italian Renaissance
Cox, Virginia. Lyric Poetry by Women of the Italian Renaissance. Un article de la revue Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 38, numéro 2, printemps 2015, p. 5-201) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
The laurel and the axe: Petrarchist execution lyrics in late‐ R enaissance I taly
A little‐investigated feature of the lyric tradition in late sixteenth‐century I taly is its increased engagement with the social world. Occasional poetry in this period constitutes a potentially rich resource for social historians, yet this remains almost entirely unexploited to date. This article examines a body of verse of particular interest in this regard: a collection of around eighty mainly anonymous printed and manuscript poems commemorat…
An Unknown Early Modern New World Epic: Girolamo Vecchietti’s Delle prodezze di Ferrante Cortese (1587–88)
This article discusses an unpublished vernacular Italian New World epic of the 1580s, which narrates the Spanish conquest of Mexico. The work was authored by the traveler, diplomat, and Orientalist Girolamo Vecchietti, and it is dedicated to Ferdinando I de’ Medici, grand duke of Tuscany. Vecchietti’s poem is striking as a rare epic in terza rima, and as the sole surviving early modern Italian epic to center on the deeds of Cortés, rather than Co…
Quintilian in the Italian Renaissance
The century that followed Poggio Bracciolini’s discovery of a complete manuscript of Quintilian’s Institutio oratoria at the Swiss monastery of St Gall in 1416 represents a vital stage within the text’s transmission and reception. The new text fell on fertile soil, at a time when the classicizing movement known as humanism was rapidly reshaping Italian elite education and literary and intellectual culture, and when the introduction of printing wo…
Early Modern Lyric Communities and Print Culture
This essay explores a feature of the sixteenth-century Italian lyric tradition that has not been studied in the detail it deserves: the ongoing “social turn” of the later decades of the century. Social poetry, in a broad sense (verse that thematizes social relationships, exchanges, and events) came to occupy an ever-greater space within verse collections of the period, and paratexts developed to facilitate an informed social reading, such as the …
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