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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. Here, 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 early modern Italian women's writing and questions the historiographical commonplace that the tradition was brought to an end by the Counter Reformation. Using a comparative analysis of women's activities as artists, musicians, composers, and actresses, Cox locates women's writing in its broader contexts and considers how gender reflects and reinvents conventional narratives of literary change.

Women and literature --- Italian literature --- Literature --- Ottovolante (Group of writers) --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- 396 <45> --- 82:396 --- 850 "14/15" --- 850 "16" --- 82:396 Literatuur en feminisme --- Literatuur en feminisme --- 396 <45> Feminisme. Vrouwenbeweging. Vrouw en maatschappij--Italië --- Feminisme. Vrouwenbeweging. Vrouw en maatschappij--Italië --- 850 "16" Italiaanse literatuur--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699 --- Italiaanse literatuur--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699 --- 850 "14/15" Italiaanse literatuur--?"14/15" --- Italiaanse literatuur--?"14/15" --- History and criticism --- Women authors&delete& --- History --- Fiction --- Thematology --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- Italy --- History of civilization --- Writers --- Book