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Elena Lombardi
Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante
By Elena Lombardi
Offers a new perspective on the woman reader in medieval Italian literature
Contextualises the woman reader within the history of female literacy, the material culture of the book, and the ways in which writers and poets imagined her
Explores the works of Guido Cavalcanti, Dante, and Boccaccio
An exceptional contribution to Medieval Italian intellectual and cultural debate
