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Very little writing by women survives among the Latin poetry of the late Republic and early Empire, but there is more than is generally known, and certainly what survives represents only a fraction of what was written.
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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs):
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women scholars, medieval women, les humanistes, centuria prima, sumptuary laws, hortus deliciarum, Académie Française, humanist women, donne letterate, other learned women, convent culture, humanist family, women humanists, humanist men
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New York, Middle Ages, Clarendon Press, The Renaissance, The Early Modern Period, Cambridge University Press, British Library, Oxford University Press, Sor Juana, Italian Poets, Harvard University Press, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Chicago University Press, Costanza Varano, Isotta Nogarola, Early Modern England, University of California Press, Veronica Gàmbara, Bandini Buti, Women Latin Poets, Laura Cereta, Anna Maria van Schurman, Camille de Morel, Sidonius Apollinaris, Low Countries
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