Her Immaculate Hand: Selected Works by and About the Women Humanists of Quattrocento Italy Book

	Preface	viii
	Preface to the Second Edition	ix
	Corrigenda	x
	Introduction	11
Part I	Women in the Public Arena
1.	Letter to Jacopo dal Verme	33
2.	Oration to the Emperor Sigismund	35
3.	Oration to Bianca Maria Visconti	39
4.	Oration to the people of Camerino	42
5.	Oration in honor of her mother Bianca Maria, Duchess of Milan	44
6.	Oration to Pope Pius II in the Consistory of Cardinals, Mantua 1459	46
7.	Oration to the Ruler of Venice, Francesco Venier, on the arrival of the Queen of Poland	48
Part II	Women on Women and Learning
8.	Letter to Cecilia Gonzaga	53
9.	Letter to Isotta Nogarola	55
10.	Of the Equal of Unequal Sin of Adam and Eve	57
11.	Oration for Bertucio Lamberto, Receiving the Honors of the Liberal Arts	69
12.	Oration in Praise of Letters	74
13.	Letter to Augustinius Aemilius, Curse Against the Ornamentation of Women	77
14.	Letter to Bibulus Sempronius, Defense of the Liberal Instruction of Women	81
15.	Letter to Lucilia Vernacula, Against Women Who Disparage Learned Women	85
16.
(a)	Alessandra Scala to Cassandra
(b)	Cassandra to Alessandra	87
Part III	Men to Women
17.	Letter to the virgin Cecilia Gonzage, on Fleeing this Worldly Life	91
18.	Letter to Contanza Barbaro, his Daughter	106
19.	Letter to Isotta Nogarola	111
20.	Letter to Isotta Nogarola	117
21.	Letter to Silvestro Cereta, Father of Laura Cetera	122
22.	Letter to Laura Cereta	124
23.	Encomium to Cassandra Fedele	126
24.	Letter to Cassandra Fedele	128
	Notes	131
	Bibliography	157
	Index	167