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Drawing on literature, legal texts, and archival materials from the Italian Renaissance, The Ambassador and the Courtesan offers an analysis of these cultural subjects, and demonstrates how placing these apparently unrelated figures into dialogue sheds light on early modern subjectivity, state formation, and the transition toward modernity.

Produktbeschreibung
Drawing on literature, legal texts, and archival materials from the Italian Renaissance, The Ambassador and the Courtesan offers an analysis of these cultural subjects, and demonstrates how placing these apparently unrelated figures into dialogue sheds light on early modern subjectivity, state formation, and the transition toward modernity.
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PAOLA DE SANTO is Assistant Professor of Italian at the University of Georgia in Athens. De Santo's research focuses on early modern Italy, with a particular interest in women writers. Together with Caterina Mongiat Farina, she is editor and translator of Isabella Andreini's Letters (1607) for the Other Voice in Early Modern Europe Series, and editor of an Italian-language critical edition of Andreini's Lettere.