This is the little book that started a revolution, making women's voices heard, in their own right and with their own integrity, for virtually the first time in

Co-published by: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies.

Sharp-witted and sharp-tongued, Arcangela Tarabotti (1604-52) yearned to be formally educated and enjoy an independent life in Venetian literary circles. But in

By the end of the fifteenth century, Cassandra Fedele (1465-1558), a learned middle-class woman of Venice, was arguably the most famous woman writer and scholar