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The Naples Manuscript and the Case for a Female Readership.

This paper examines evidence for the intended audience of the anonymous fifteenth-century anthology, Biblioteca Nazionale, Naples, MS XIII.B.29. All evidence is internal, but the selection of texts, their arrangement, their adjustments to the manuscript matrix, and their focus on female agency stron...

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Published in:Neophilologus Vol. 93; no. 4; pp. 703 - 723
Main Author: Weldon, James
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Oct2009
Subjects:
15th century Italian literature
Reading interests of women
Primary audience
Readership
Medieval manuscripts
Anonymous writings
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