Author: Isotta Nogarola File Type: pdf Renowned in her day for her scholarship and eloquence, Isotta Nogarola (1418-66) remained one of the most famous women of the Italian Renaissance for centuries after her death. And because she was one of the first women to carve out a place for herself in the male-dominated republic of letters, Nogarola served as a crucial role model for generations of aspiring female artists and writers.This volume presents English translations of all of Nogarolas extant works and highlights just how daring and original her convictions were. In her letters and orations, Nogarola elegantly synthesized Greco-Roman thought with biblical teachings. And striding across the stage in public, she lectured the Veronese citizenry on everything from history and religion to politics and morality. But the most influential of Nogarolas works was a performance piece, Dialogue on Adam and Eve, in which she discussed the relative sinfulness of Adam and Evethereby opening up a centuries-long debate in Europe on gender and the nature of woman and establishing herself as an important figure in Western intellectual history. This book will be a must read for teachers and students of Womens Studies as well as of Renaissance literature and history.From the Inside FlapRenowned in her day for her scholarship and eloquence, Isotta Nogarola (1418-66) remained one of the most famous women of the Italian Renaissance for centuries after her death. And because she was one of the first women to carve out a place for herself in the male-dominated republic of letters, Nogarola served as a crucial role model for generations of aspiring female artists and writers.This volume presents English translations of all of Nogarolas extant works and highlights just how daring and original her convictions were. In her letters and orations, Nogarola elegantly synthesized Greco-Roman thought with biblical teachings. And striding across the stage in public, she lectured the Veronese citizenry on everything from history and religion to politics and morality. But the most influential of Nogarolas works was a performance piece, Dialogue on Adam and Eve, in which she discussed the relative sinfulness of Adam and Evethereby opening up a centuries-long debate in Europe on gender and the nature of woman and establishing herself as an important figure in Western intellectual history. This book will be a must read for teachers and students of Womens Studies as well as of Renaissance literature and history.About the AuthorMargaret L. King is a professor of history at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.Diana Robin is a professor emerita of classics at the University of New Mexico.

Author: Scott Zesch File Type: epub On New Years Day in 1870, ten-year-old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by an Apache raiding party. Traded to Comaches, he thrived in the rough, nomadic existence, quickly becoming one of the tribes fiercest warriors. Forcibly returned to his parents after three years, Korn never adjusted to life in white society. He spent his last years in a cave, all but forgotten by his family. That is, until Scott Zesch stumbled over his own great-great-great uncles grave. Determined to understand how such a good boy could have become Indianized so completely, Zesch travels across the west, digging through archives, speaking with Comanche elders, and tracking eight other child captives from the region with hauntingly similar experiences. With a historians rigor and a novelists eye, Zeschs The Captured paints a vivid portrait of life on the Texas frontier, offering a rare account of captivity.A carefully written, well-researched contribution to Western history -- and to a promising new genre the anthropology of the stolen. - Kirkus Reviews**From BooklistOn New Years Day, 1870, Adolph Korn, the authors ancestor and son of German immigrants, was captured by three Apaches near his familys cabin in central Texas. Adolph was traded to a band of Quahada Comanches, with whom he lived until November 1872, when the Comanches traded their captives for those held by the U.S. Army. Adolph was irrevocably changed. Considering himself Indian, he lived in a cave, and died alone in 1900. The authors search into Korns sad life led him to the similar stories of eight other children captured in Texas between 1865 and 1871. Drawing on his tenacious research and interviews with the captives descendants, Zesch compiles a gripping account of the lives of these children as they lived and traveled with their Indian captors. He delves into the reasons for their Indianization, which for most of them lasted the rest of their lives, and discusses why they couldnt adjust to white society. A fascinating, meticulously documented chronicle of the often-painful confrontations between whites and Indians during the final years of Indian Territory. Deborah Donovan American Library Association. ltReviewStunningly written...Golden-voiced Grover Gardner charges his rich baritone with the thrill of discovery.-- AudioFile A carefully written, well-researched contribution to Western history--and to a promising new genre the anthropology of the stolen.-- Kirkus Reviews A fascinating, meticulously documented chronicle of the often painful confrontations between whites and Indians during the final years of Indian Territory.-- Booklist Highly recommended.-- Library Journal Lovers of history will enjoy this slice of America intertwined with the authors own family story. -- Foreword