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By Elisabetta Caminer Turra,Catherine M. Sama

ISBN-10: 0226817679

ISBN-13: 9780226817675

ISBN-10: 0226817687

ISBN-13: 9780226817682

Elisabetta Caminer Turra (1751-96) used to be probably the most well known ladies in eighteenth-century Italy and a critical determine within the foreign "Republic of Letters." A journalist and writer, Caminer participated in very important debates on capital punishment, freedom of the click, and the abuse of clerical strength. She additionally helped unfold Enlightenment principles into Italy via selling and publishing Voltaire's most modern works and translating new ecu plays-plays she herself directed, to nice applause, on Venetian stages.

Bringing jointly Caminer's letters, poems, and journalistic writings, approximately all released for the 1st time right here, Selected Writings bargains readers an highbrow biography of this extraordinary determine in addition to a glimpse into her intimate correspondence with the main well-liked thinkers of her day. yet extra very important, chosen Writings presents perception into the fervour that lively Caminer's fervent reflections at the advanced and moving of ladies in her society-the related ardour that driven her to achieve the male-dominated literary professions.

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