Margaret L. King is Professor of History, Brooklyn College, and the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA

• Contents: Preface. Part I Humanism and the Transmission of Values: The Venetian Case: The social role of intellectuals: Antonio Gramsci and the Italian Renaissance; Humanism in Venice; L'Umanesimo cristiano nella Venezia del Quattrocento. Part II Caldiera, Marcello, and the Barbaros: Social Issues and Humanist Thought in Venice: Personal, domestic and republican values in the moral philosophy of Giovanni Caldiera; Caldiera and the Barbaros on marriage and the family: humanist reflections of Venetian realities; An inconsolable father and his humanist consolers: Jacobo Antonio Marcello, Venetian nobleman, patron, and man of letters; Jacopo Antonio Marcello and the war for the Lombard plain. Part III Renaissance Women And Renaissance Culture: Thwarted ambitions: six learned women of the Renaissance; The religious retreat of Isotta Nogarola (1418-66): sexism and its consequences in the 15th century; Goddess and captive: Antonio Loschi's epistolary tribute to Maddalena Scrovegni (1389); Book-lined cells: women and humanism in the early Italian Renaissance; Mothers of the Renaissance; Index.

Margaret L. King is Professor of History, Brooklyn College, and the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA

• Contents: Preface. Part I Humanism and the Transmission of Values: The Venetian Case: The social role of intellectuals: Antonio Gramsci and the Italian Renaissance; Humanism in Venice; L'Umanesimo cristiano nella Venezia del Quattrocento. Part II Caldiera, Marcello, and the Barbaros: Social Issues and Humanist Thought in Venice: Personal, domestic and republican values in the moral philosophy of Giovanni Caldiera; Caldiera and the Barbaros on marriage and the family: humanist reflections of Venetian realities; An inconsolable father and his humanist consolers: Jacobo Antonio Marcello, Venetian nobleman, patron, and man of letters; Jacopo Antonio Marcello and the war for the Lombard plain. Part III Renaissance Women And Renaissance Culture: Thwarted ambitions: six learned women of the Renaissance; The religious retreat of Isotta Nogarola (1418-66): sexism and its consequences in the 15th century; Goddess and captive: Antonio Loschi's epistolary tribute to Maddalena Scrovegni (1389); Book-lined cells: women and humanism in the early Italian Renaissance; Mothers of the Renaissance; Index.

Margaret L. King is Professor of History, Brooklyn College, and the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA

• Contents: Preface. Part I Humanism and the Transmission of Values: The Venetian Case: The social role of intellectuals: Antonio Gramsci and the Italian Renaissance; Humanism in Venice; L'Umanesimo cristiano nella Venezia del Quattrocento. Part II Caldiera, Marcello, and the Barbaros: Social Issues and Humanist Thought in Venice: Personal, domestic and republican values in the moral philosophy of Giovanni Caldiera; Caldiera and the Barbaros on marriage and the family: humanist reflections of Venetian realities; An inconsolable father and his humanist consolers: Jacobo Antonio Marcello, Venetian nobleman, patron, and man of letters; Jacopo Antonio Marcello and the war for the Lombard plain. Part III Renaissance Women And Renaissance Culture: Thwarted ambitions: six learned women of the Renaissance; The religious retreat of Isotta Nogarola (1418-66): sexism and its consequences in the 15th century; Goddess and captive: Antonio Loschi's epistolary tribute to Maddalena Scrovegni (1389); Book-lined cells: women and humanism in the early Italian Renaissance; Mothers of the Renaissance; Index.