Selected Letters of Alessandra Strozzi.(Review)

The Modern Language Review | April 1, 1999| | Copyright

Selected Letters of Alessandra Strozzi. Bilingual edition. Trans. with an introduction and notes by HEATHER GREGORY. (Biblioteca Italiana) Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press. 1997. ix + 252 pp. 32 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 12.95 [pounds sterling]).

Alessandra Macinghi Strozzi (1408-71) would be surprised and perhaps not best pleased to know that her private letters, written over a period of twenty-three years to her sons, who were at first in exile from Florence and then, after 1466, frequently absent from the city on business, were ...

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