In Continuous Expectation: Isabella d’Este’s Reign of Letters

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In Continuous Expectation: Isabella d’Este’s Reign of LettersOverview The sixteenth century is commonly identified with the advent of print culture, but in truth it was also a century of explosive growth in the practice of handwritten correspondence. This is a book about one assiduous correspondent and the roles that letter writing played in her public and private life. Because the letters of Isabella dEste (14741539), daughter of the Este dukes of Ferrara and marchesa of Mantua, are so numerous, so wide

To understand the complex world of fifteenth-century Italy

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