Humanism Venice & Women

Essays on the Italian Renaissance. Originally published between 1975 and 2003, the essays included in Humanism, Venice, and Women reflect Margaret L. Kings distinct but interlocking scholarly interests humanism and Venice women and humanism and women of the Italian Renaissance. A first set focuses on defining the key characteristics of Venetian as opposed to other Italian humanisms, with an analysis of Gramscian theory about the historical role of intellectuals as an aid to understanding humanism in Venice, followed by essays on three Venetian humanists who wrote about family relationships or the need to avoid them. The third section