2009
DOI: 10.1086/650024
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Fraught Relations in the Letters of Laura Cereta: Marriage, Friendship, and Humanist Epistolarity*

Abstract: Laura Cereta is unique among Quattrocento female humanists in directly addressing the position of women as wives and as friends in her substantial corpus of erudite Latin epistolary prose. Questioning the ideals that governed intellectual, social, and personal expectations of matrimony, Cereta's letters reflect her self-consciously double status as humanist and spouse. Her fierce critique of marriage as a site of female oppression and complicity implies an alternative that requires of humanists, husbands, and … Show more

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“… As Amyrose McCue Gill’s forthcoming article on Laura Cereta shows, this work has the potential to transform our understanding of humanism as well as friendship. McCue Gill argues that Cereta uses amicitia to reimagine her relationship with her husband as well as that with a female friend; in the process, she integrates pragmatic and theoretical concerns within the genre of the humanistic Latin epistle. …”
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“… As Amyrose McCue Gill’s forthcoming article on Laura Cereta shows, this work has the potential to transform our understanding of humanism as well as friendship. McCue Gill argues that Cereta uses amicitia to reimagine her relationship with her husband as well as that with a female friend; in the process, she integrates pragmatic and theoretical concerns within the genre of the humanistic Latin epistle. …”
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confidence: 99%