The contest for knowledge [electronic resource] : debates over women's learning in eighteenth-century Italy / Maria Gaetana Agnesi ... [et al.] and the Accademia de' ricovrati ; edited and translated by Rebecca Messbarger and Paula Findlen ; with an introduction by Rebecca Messbarger.
Language: English Original language: Italian, Latin Series: Other voice in early modern EuropePublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2005.Description: xxxi, 181 p. : illISBN:- 0226010546 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226010554 (paper : alk. paper)
- Education -- Italy -- History -- 18th century -- Sources
- Women -- Education -- Italy -- History -- 18th century -- Sources
- Women -- Italy -- Intellectual life -- 18th century -- Sources
- Women -- Italy -- Social conditions -- 18th century -- Sources
- Italy -- Intellectual life -- 18th century -- Sources
- Italy -- Social conditions -- 18th century -- Sources
- 370.82/0945/09033 22
- LC2122 .C66 2005eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Giuseppa Eleonora Barbapiccola -- The Academy of the Ricovrati -- Aretafila Savini de' Rossi -- Maria Gaetana Agnesi -- Diamante Medaglia Faini.
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