Jewish Poet and Intellectual in Seventeenth-Century Venice: The Works of Sarra Copia Sulam in Verse and Prose Along with Writings of Her ... (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe)

The First Jewish Woman To Leave Her Mark As A Writer And Intellectual, Sarra Copia Sulam (1600?-41) Opened Her Venice Home To Jews And Christians Alike As A Literary Salon. Don Harrán Has Collected All Her Surviving Writings Into This Volume. Sarra Copia And Ansaldo Cebà. Letters To Sarra Copia From Her Christian Correspondent Ansaldo Cebà (1618-22) ; Letter From Sarra Copia To Isabella Della Tolfa (1623) ; References To Sarra Copia In A Second Collection Of Ansaldo Cebà's Letters (1623) -- A Controversy On The Immortality Of The Soul. Letter From Baldassare Bonifaccio To Sarra Copia (end Of 1619) ; Sarra Copia's Letter In Response (10 January 1620) ; Excerpts From Baldassare Bonifaccio's Discourse On The Immortality Of The Soul (june 1621) ; Sarra Copia's Manifesto In Self-defense (july 1621) ; Baldassare Bonifaccio's Essay In Rebuttal (august 1621) ; Portion Of A Letter By Baldassare Bonifaccio (december 1621) -- Notices From Parnassus. Notices From Parnassus (1626 Or Thereafter) ; Excerpts From Numidio Paluzzi's Rime, As Edited By Alessandro Berardelli (1626) ; Letter By Angelico Aprosio (undated, Though Based On A Report From 1637) -- Miscellanea. Dedication To Sarra Copia From Leon Modena's Play Ester (1619) ; Two Poems By Gabriele Zinano And A Poem By Sarra Copia In Response (probably 1622-23); Leon Modena's Epitaph For Sarra Copia's Tombstone (1641). Sarra Copia Sulam ; Edited And Translated By Don Harrán. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Some Text In Italian.