08-23-2023, 03:12 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-23-2023, 03:20 PM by Paul Ferguson.)
"In the Segreti della signora Isabella Cortese (1561), one of the most popular "books of secrets" published in early modern Italy, the author—who presents herself as an itinerant female alchemist, addressing a readership of women—explains that the precious knowledge she shares has been gleaned from her travels along a well-worn route stretching from Italy to Moravia, Poland, and Hungary."
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/788014
See also:
Science and Popular Culture in Sixteenth Century Italy: The "Professors of Secrets" and Their Books, by William Eamon.
https://www.academia.edu/5413049/Science...heir_Books
See also:
DAUGHTERS OF ALCHEMY: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy by Meredith K. Ray
At Scribd:
https://www.scribd.com/document/35684546...lchemy-pdf
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/788014
See also:
Science and Popular Culture in Sixteenth Century Italy: The "Professors of Secrets" and Their Books, by William Eamon.
https://www.academia.edu/5413049/Science...heir_Books
See also:
DAUGHTERS OF ALCHEMY: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy by Meredith K. Ray
At Scribd:
https://www.scribd.com/document/35684546...lchemy-pdf