Meredith K. Ray

Daughters of Alchemy

Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy

Meredith Ray shows that women were at the vanguard of empirical culture during the Scientific Revolution. They experimented with medicine and alchemy ...

Margherita Sarrocchi's Letters to Galileo

Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Italy

This book examines a pivotal moment in the history of science and women’s place in it. Meredith Ray offers the first in-depth study and complete Eng...

Writing Gender in Women's Letter Collections of the Italian Renaissance

During the Italian Renaissance, dozens of early modern writers published collections of private correspondence, using them as vehicles for self-presen...

Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Italian Renaissance

• This book offers an engaging, well-researched introduction to the influential female figures who helped lay the foundations of Renaissance culture...