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Encloistered Epistles in the World: Arcangela Tarabotti’s Authorial Self-Fashioning |
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Editor(s): Nicole Reinhardt and Kaya Şahin |
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European History Yearbook (also known as Jahrbuch für Europäische Geschichte) |
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This paper examines the epistolary self-portrait the Venetian nun Arcangela Tarabotti constructs in Lettere familiari e di complimento (1650). It reviews the historical context for published letter collections, early modern Italian women and contemporary convent culture of Venice. It argues that Tarabotti uses the inherent variety and miscellaneousness of the letter collection format for a range of purposes including: to illustrate her membership of intellectual, literary, and familial communities in spite of her claustration; to demonstrate her native wit in the humanist tradition of the literati; to showcase her versatility as a writer; to model her control of social and rhetorical decorum; and thus to rebut her critics. |
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Reading and Writing Letters in the Global Renaissance, v.23, p. 101-123 |
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International |
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