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Contentious Readings: Urban Humanism and Gender Difference in La Puce de Madame Des-Roches (1582)*

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Ann Rosalind Jones
Ann Rosalind Jones*
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Smith College
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Recent Research into Early modern social groups in which women gained access to literary language has focused on the coteries in which they learned to perform alongside men, improvising poems later printed in books.1 The typical coterie in Italy, through which women such as Veronica Franco made their way into print, was the humanist academy centered around a court or a group of urban noblemen, such as the Venier academy in Venice. In sixteenth-century France such groups took two forms: the provincial salon attended by professional men—humanist lawyers, diplomats, doctors, publishers—as in Lyon and Poitiers, and the aristocratic salons linked to the court.

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , Spring 1995 , pp. 109 - 128
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1995

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