A Rediscovered Friendship in the Republic of Letters
The Unpublished Correspondence of Arcangela Tarabotti and Ismaël Boulliau
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10427446 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lynn Lara Westwater (George Washington University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 67-134 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Renaissance Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-4338 • E-ISSN: 1935-0236 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/665836 |
| PMID | 27652416 |
| OpenAlex | W1963722540 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 23 |
The correspondence between the radical Venetian pro-female polemicist and nun Arcangela Tarabotti (1604–52) and the Copernican French astronomer Ismaël Boulliau (1605–94) — here published for the first time — shows how one of Tarabotti's most controversial works made it to press. She had long and unsuccessfully sought in Italy and in France to print the work, which was, puzzlingly, published two years after her death in Holland. It was subsequently placed on the Index of Forbidden Books. Charting the explosive work's journey to France and its later arrival and reception in Holland, the Tarabotti-Boulliau correspondence provides a case study in the circulation of unorthodox ideas in seventeenth-century Europe. By showing Tarabotti's firm inscription in the well-connected scientist's intellectual circle, the letter exchange furthermore contributes to our expanding notions of women's participation in the Republic of Letters, while also suggesting a confluence of radical scientific and social views
Art · Art history · Astronomer · Friendship · Literature · Social science · Sociology · Classics · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical Philosophy and Science · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History
Impolite Learning
Women's Writing in Italy, 1400–1650
Anti-Italianism in Sixteenth-Century France
A Biographical Introduction
L'Accademia degli Incogniti di Giovan Francesco Loredan Venezia (1630-1661)
Che le donne siano della spezie degli uomini
Women and Men in Renaissance Venice
Convents and the Body Politic in Late Renaissance Venice
The World of the Elseviers, 1580–1712
Tarabotti's "La semplicita ingannata" and Its Twentieth-Century Interpreters, with Unpublished Documents regarding Its Condemnation to the Index
Letters from the Cloister
Women and the Religious Vocation in Seventeenth-Century France
Arcangela Tarabotti's reliability about herself
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
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| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |