Courting Celebrity : : The Autobiographies of Angela Veronese and Teresa Bandettini / / ed. by Irene Zanini-Cordi, Adrienne Ward.

In 1826 Angela Veronese, a gardener’s daughter, wrote and published the first modern autobiography by an Italian woman. Veronese’s account focuses on her unique experience as a peasant girl who came of age among the Venetian elite, and details how she attained a certain renown in and out of Italy by...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Toronto Italian Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.) :; 6 b&w illustrations
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