Benedetta Craveri
Benedetta Craveri is a professor of French literature at the University of Tuscia, Viterbo, and the Istituto Universitario Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples. She regularly contributes to The New York Review of Books and to the cultural pages of the Italian newspaper La Repubblica. Her books include Madame du Deffand and Her World and La Vie privée du Maréchal de Richelieu, and Amanti e regine: Il potere delle donne. She is married to a French diplomat.
From the Review
August 14, 2003: A Very Grand Girl
La Grande Mademoiselle at the Court of France, 1627–1693 by Vincent J. Pitts
Against Marriage: The Correspondence of La Grande Mademoiselle Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orléans edited and translated from the French by Joan DeJean
January 20, 2000: Talk!
L'Art de la conversation edited by Jacqueline Hellegouarc'h, with a preface by Marc Fumaroli
'De l'air galant' et autres Conversations (1653-1686): Pour une étude de l'archive galante by Madeleine de Scudéry, edited by Delphine Denis
Correspondence: Models of Letter-Writing from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century by Roger Chartier, by Alain Boureau, by Cécile Dauphin, translated by Christopher Woodall
Les Caractères by Jean de La Bruyère, edited by Louis Van Delft
April 6, 1995: Venice: Going for Glory
The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello by Margaret L. King
The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice by Margaret F. Rosenthal
December 2, 1993: The Lost Art
Cartesian Women: Versions and Subversions of Rational Discourse in the Old Regime by Erica Harth
Watteau's Painted Conversations: Art, Literature, and Talk in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France by Mary Vidal
December 17, 1992: Conqueror of Paris
A Woman, a Man, and Two Kingdoms: The Story of Madame d'Epinay and the Abbæ Galiani by Francis Steegmuller
Ferdinando Galiani, Louise d'Epinay Correspondance Vol. I (1769–1770) by (The Correspondance will comprise five volumes to appear annually.), edited by Georges Dulac, by Daniel Maggetti
Eagle in a Gauze Cage: Louise d'Epinay, femme de lettres by Ruth Plaut Weinreb
December 19, 1991: Women in Retreat
Storia delle donne in Occidente: Dal Rinascimento all'età moderna (A History of Women in the West: From the Renaissance to the Modern Era) edited by Arlette Farge, edited by Natalie Zemon Davis
Letteratura per il popolo in Francia (1600–1750) (Literature for the French People, 1600–1750) by Giovanni Dotoli
Women of the Renaissance by Margaret L. King
Ange ou diablesse: La représentation de la femme au XVIe siècle (Angel or Devil: The Representation of Women in the Sixteenth Century) by Sara F. Matthews Grieco
Le travail des apparences: Le corps féminin, XVIIIe–XIXe siècle (The Work of Appearances: The Female Body in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries) by Philippe Perot
From New York Review Books
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Books by Benedetta Craveri
Madame Du Deffand and Her World (1994)