Selected Writings of an Eighteenth-Century Venetian Woman of LettersElisabetta 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 writings, nearly all published for the first time here, Selected Writings offers readers an intellectual biography of this remarkable figure as well as a glimpse into her intimate correspondence with the most prominent thinkers of her day. But more important, Selected Writings provides insight into the passion that animated Caminer's fervent reflections on the complex and shifting condition of women in her society-the same passion that pushed her to succeed in the male-dominated literary professions. |
Contents
Volume Editors Introduction | 1 |
Women and Society The Intellectual Life | 6 |
Volume Editors Bibliography | 75 |
Part I | 97 |
Poem for Alberto Fortis on Their Friendship 1768 | 98 |
Letter to Lazzaro Spallanzani 1769 | 100 |
Letter to Giuseppe Gennari 1769 | 101 |
Poem for a Friend on Loves Disillusionments 1770 | 102 |
Letter to Lazzaro Spallanzani 1777 | 142 |
Fly Sheet for the Giornale enciclopedico in Vicenza 1777 | 143 |
Polemic with a Reader from Vicenza 1777 | 146 |
Letter to Clemente Vannetti 1779 | 151 |
Letter to Michele Sorgo Mibo Sorkočević 1779 | 153 |
Letter to Clemente Vannetti 1780 | 155 |
Letter to Clemente Vannetti 1780 | 157 |
Letter to Aurelio de Giorgi Bertòla 1780 | 158 |
Letter to Giuseppe Pelli Bencivenni 1770 | 103 |
Letter to Giuseppe Pelli Bencivenni 1770 | 105 |
Letter to Giuseppe Gennari 1770 | 106 |
Letter to Giuseppe Pelli Bencivenni 1770 | 107 |
Letter to Giuseppe Pelli Bencivenni 1770 | 108 |
Letter to Giuseppe Pelli Bencivenni 1771 | 109 |
Letter to Giuseppe Pelli Bencivenni 1771 | 110 |
Letter to Giuseppe Pelli Bencivenni 1771 | 111 |
Letter to Giuseppe Pelli Bencivenni 1771 | 112 |
Letter to Giuseppe Pelli Bencivenni 1771 | 113 |
Letter to Giuseppe Gennari 1771 | 114 |
Letter to Giuseppe Gennari 1771 | 116 |
Letter to Giuseppe Pelli Bencivenni 1771 | 117 |
Letter to Giuseppe Pelli Bencivenni 1771 | 118 |
Letter to Giuseppe Pelli Bencivenni 1771 | 120 |
Preface to Composizioni teatrali moderne tradotte Modern Theatrical Compositions in Translation 1772 | 121 |
Letter to Giuseppe Pelli Bencivenni 1772 | 130 |
Letter to Giuseppe Pelli Bencivenni 1772 | 132 |
Letter to Giuseppe Pelli Bencivenni 1772 | 133 |
Letter to Giuseppe Pelli Bencivenni 1772 | 134 |
Letter to Giuseppe Gennari 1772 | 136 |
Letter to Giuseppe Pelli Bencivenni 1773 | 138 |
Poem for a Friend on Infinite Tedium 1773 | 139 |
Letter to Giuseppe Pelli Bencivenni 1773 | 140 |
Letter to Giuseppe Pelli Bencivenni 1774 | 141 |
Letter to Clemente Vannetti 1781 | 160 |
Letter to Lazzaro Spallanzani 1789 | 163 |
Letter to an Unidentified Recipient 1796 | 164 |
On Why Women Write Differently from Men 1769 | 165 |
On Exceptional Women 1769 | 167 |
Poem in Honor of Caterina Dolfin Tron 1773 | 183 |
On a Critique of The Scourge of Humanity 1786 | 184 |
On the Error of Exalting Some Women by Insulting Others 1790 | 185 |
On Mary Wollstonecrafts Vindication of the Rights of Woman 179293 | 188 |
The Original and the Portrait 1793 | 189 |
On the Excessive Modesty of a Learned Woman 1794 | 190 |
Review of the New Fashion Supplement to the Tuscan Gazette 1777 | 191 |
Review of Clemente Bondis Poem on Fashion 1778 | 193 |
Review of the Milanese Journal of the Ladies and Fashions of France 1786 | 197 |
Review of the Venetian Fashion Periodical The Gallant and Learned Woman 1786 | 198 |
A Review of DuboisFontanelles Éricie or The Vestal translated into Italian by F Albergati 1769 | 199 |
Tranquil Haven or Painful Prison? 1773 | 200 |
Poem Offering Advice to a Bride and Groom upon Their Marriage 1774 | 201 |
Review of Letters on the Duties of Nuns Superiors 1778 | 204 |
Review of a Book Offering Advice to New Wives and Mothers 1783 | 205 |
From a Poem Offering Advice to a Friend upon Her Marriage 1785 | 209 |
From a Review of a Satirical Poem Offering Advice to New Nuns 1786 | 211 |
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