Download or read book Saints, Women and Humanists in Renaissance Venice written by Patricia H. Labalme and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together the published academic essays of the Renaissance historian Patricia Hochschild Labalme (1927-2002). Appearing between 1955 and 1999, they deal with the intellectual, social and religious life of Venice in the 15th-16th centuries. An important focus is the exploration of the careers, milieu and writings of cultural and literary women of early modern Venice, a field to which the author made a particular contribution.