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9780916101572

Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia (1646-1684)

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  • ISBN13:

    9780916101572

  • ISBN10:

    0916101576

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-06-30
  • Publisher: St Josephs Univ Pr
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations vii
Abbreviations xiii
List of Subscribers to the Italian edition xv
Foreword xix
Introduction 1
1. The Cornaro Lineage 3
The Cornaro Name
3
Piscopia
6
The Cornaro Piscopias
8
2. A Family 11
Giovanni Battista Cornaro in Private Life
11
Giovanni Battista Cornaro in Public Life
13
The Children of Giovanni Battista Cornaro
26
3. Culture in the Cornaro Piscopia Home 31
Marcantonio and Giacomo Alvise
31
Girolamo
37
Giovanni Battista
38
4. Elena Lucrezia's Studies 43
Women and Scholarship in the Seventeenth Century
43
Literature and Science
46
Philosophy and Theology
50
Hebrew and Music
55
5. A Degree 61
Post-Tridentine Theology
61
The University of Padua in the Seventeenth Century
63
The Opposition of Cardinal Barbarigo
66
Elena Cornaro Piscopia's Degree in Philosophy
71
6. Elena Cornaro Piscopia: Scholarly Woman 79
Repercussions of Elena Lucrezia's Degree
79
The Academic Elena
83
Elena's Residency in Padua and Her Studious Life
87
Elena's Writings
91
The Value of Elena's Writings
99
7. Elena Lucrezia and the Demands of the Spirit 103
The Vow of Chastiy
103
The Benedictine Oblate
106
Spirituality
109
The Question of Other Consecrations
112
8. The End of a Life 116
Resuming an Incomplete Project
116
Elena's Illnesses
119
The End
122
An Indelible Memory
125
9. Epilogue: Survival 131
A Long Silence
131
Awakenings
133
Revival
136
Illustrations 139
Appendix 183
Notes 219
Bibliography 261
Index 279
Contributors 319

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