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Virginia Cox

Virginia Cox
Virginia Cox is professor of Italian at New York University. Her many books include Lyric Poetry by Women of the Italian Renaissance (2013) and A Short History of the Italian Renaissance (2015). She recently edited and wrote the introduction for a new edition of Moderata Fonte's The Merits of Women (2018).


On Moderata Fonte’s Feminist Reimagining of 16th-Century Venice

Female Friendships and Single Women in The Merits of Women
March 27, 2018  By Virginia Cox
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