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Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
The Wealth of Wives 65
Bibliography 127
Index 141
Margaret L. King, professor of history emerita, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, is author of Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician Dominance (1986); Women of the Renaissance (1991); The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello (1994); and How Mothers Shaped Successful Sons and Created World History (2014).
Barbaro’s work is such an important and influential work on
marriage and women that it is surprising that it has not been
translated earlier. But the wait was worth it. Margaret
King provides a fluent, clear, and accurate translation.
Moreover, as a supremely knowledgeable historian on Barbaro,
Renaissance women, and Venice, she describes very well
the historical circumstances of the work, the context of
Renaissance humanism, and Venetian policies and practices. She
also provides a great deal of information concerning the
diffusion and influence of Barbaro’s work. Scholars will
be surprised to learn that Erasmus, Juan Luis Vives, and
practically every other Renaissance commentator on women and
marriage borrowed from or was influenced by this book. This is
a very welcome addition to a distinguished series.
Paul F. Grendler, Professor Emeritus of History, University of
Toronto 2014 International Galileo Galilei Prize for
Contributions to Italian Scholarship
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