03406cam a22003733u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000540011324000420016724500330020926400510024230000470029333600260034033700260036633800360039250000490042850000310047750802070050852019900071553400630270565300160276865300470278465300330283165300340286470000360289885600550293485600430298977508UtSlPG20260610134809.0mcr n260607r20251900utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aHQ1 aMaulde-La-Clavière, R. deq(René),d1848-190214aLes femmes de la Renaissance. English14aThe women of the Renaissance 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aTranslation of Les femmes de la Renaissance.  aRelease date is 2025-12-19  aTim Lindell, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)  a"The women of the Renaissance" by R. de Maulde-La-Clavière is a historical study written in the late 19th century. It explores how women in Renaissance Italy and France steered culture and morals, charting an early feminist movement rooted in idealized love, beauty, and salon influence rather than laws or suffrage. Through social history and lively anecdote, it examines family structures, education, platonism, and women’s political, intellectual, and religious impact.

The opening of the book sets the stage with contemporary praise and a translator’s note highlighting the author’s scholarly wit and Renaissance expertise, then frames the “woman question” amid modern confusion about education, marriage, and public role. The preamble proposes learning from the past, contrasting Anglo-Saxon “masculinism” with Latin “feminism,” and points to the Renaissance as a comparable age of transition. The introduction locates the movement’s origin in Italy, where women became the “motive force” of society—countering war and the power of money, revitalizing a tired religious and intellectual climate, and elevating life through beauty, love, and platonist ideals; France at first resisted these Italian ideas, then absorbed them. At the start of Book I, marriage appears as a practical contract wholly distinct from love: fathers negotiate, brides are married young (often betrothed in childhood), and grooms approach the step fatalistically. Anecdotes (from courts like Urbino and figures such as Michelangelo and Raphael) underscore the calculations, dowries, and family interests that govern matches. Weddings are lavish public displays that heighten family prestige, but behind the pageantry the marital reality is bluntly prosaic, affirming the book’s thesis that Renaissance “feminism” emerged not through legal change but through women’s spiritual and social agency outside the marriage bargain. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cNew York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900  aRenaissance  aWomen -- History -- Renaissance, 1450-1600  aFeminism -- Italy -- History  aFeminism -- France -- History1 aEly, George Herbert,d1866-19584 uhttps://archive.org/details/womenofrenaissan00maul40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77508