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...
| Publicado en: | Neophilologus Vol. 93; no. 4; pp. 703 - 723 |
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