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Article Excerpt
Publishing Women: Salons, the Presses, and the Counter-Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Italy, by Diana Robin. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2007. xxvi, 365 pp., $45.00 US (cloth).
The study of early modern women is now a well-established and highly regarded field. Diana Robin's Publishing Women is a welcome addition to this dynamic area of scholarship. Robin states that she wants to describe the collective process of publication, rather than individuals. To this end she structures the book around what she calls literary salons organized by women in five cities: Naples, Venice, Rome, Siena, and Florence. She carefully describes the networks that existed among men and women of letters through salons, literary academies, and publishing firms. Nonetheless, powerful individual portraits emerge within this framework, lending greater human interest to the book. We learn about the great Vittoria Colonna whose diplomatic...
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