Florence Forte - MAP FORUM

MAP FORUM - 1 October 2024
Women Latinists and The Republic of Letters (1300 - 1700)
This talk will provide a summary of the recent workshop hosted at MAP on Friday 20 September, called ‘The Epistolary Renaissance: Women Latinists and the Republic of Letters (1300-1700)’. This workshop examined the Latin literary contributions of women in late medieval and early modern Europe, with a focus on the genre of letter-writing. Building upon scholarship that has investigated many of these women in isolation, or in relation to each other, this workshop aimed to connect them also to their male peers and the larger networks within which they operated. This talk will therefore provide an overview of the purpose, content and discussion points that arose throughout the day, as well as a broader introduction to the topic of Latin letters written by women through some case studies.
Florence Forte is a PhD student at The Warburg Institute in London, whose research centers on the Latin literary output, rhetoric, and networks of female humanists in fifteenth-century Italy. She began her PhD on a Leverhulme Study Abroad Studentship at The Medici Archive Project and since 2019, she has organized courses and workshops on the classical tradition in Florence via Forte Academy.