The contest for knowledge : debates over women's learning in eighteenth-century Italy /

The contest for knowledge : 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. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2005. - xxxi, 181 p. : ill. - The other voice in early modern Europe . - Other voice in early modern Europe. .

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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.




Women--Education--History--Italy--18th century--Sources.
Women--Intellectual life--Italy--18th century--Sources.
Women--Social conditions--Italy--18th century--Sources.
Education--History--Italy--18th century--Sources.


Italy--Intellectual life--18th century--Sources.
Italy--Social conditions--18th century--Sources.

LC 2122 / C761 2005

370.82/0945/09033