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Title The contest for knowledge [electronic resource] : debates over women's learning in eighteenth-century Italy / Maria Gaetana Agnesi ... [et al.] and the Accademia de' ricovrati ; edited and translated by Rebecca Messbarger and Paula Findlen ; with an introduction by Rebecca Messbarger.

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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2005.

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Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	xxxi, 181 p. : ill.
Series	The other voice in early modern Europe
	Other voice in early modern Europe.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Giuseppa Eleonora Barbapiccola -- The Academy of the Ricovrati -- Aretafila Savini de' Rossi -- Maria Gaetana Agnesi -- Diamante Medaglia Faini.
Reproduction	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject	Women -- Education -- Italy -- History -- 18th century -- Sources.
	Women -- Italy -- Intellectual life -- 18th century -- Sources.
	Women -- Italy -- Social conditions -- 18th century -- Sources.
	Education -- Italy -- History -- 18th century -- Sources.
	Italy -- Intellectual life -- 18th century -- Sources.
	Italy -- Social conditions -- 18th century -- Sources.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	Agnesi, Maria Gaetana, 1718-1799.
	Messbarger, Rebecca Marie.
	Findlen, Paula.
	Accademia di Padova.
	ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN	0226010546 (cloth : alk. paper)
	0226010554 (paper : alk. paper)