Publishing Women: Salons, the Presses, and the Counter-Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Italy.(Book review)

The Historian | September 22, 2008| | Copyright

Publishing Women: Salons, the Presses, and the Counter-Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Italy. By Diana Robin. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xxvi, 365. $45.00.)

In this rich and important book, the author explores why there was a surge in the publication of women writers in mid-sixteenth-century Italy [1530-1570]. Her aim is to unite the fields of the history of women, printing, and the Counter-Reformation, which she creatively does, grounding her analysis also in the querelle des femmes of the early modern period. To explain the rise of ...

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