Download or read book Women and Latin in the Early Modern Period written by Jane Stevenson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-09-12 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first women Latinists lived in renaissance Italy. The new learning spread from there to the rest of Europe. The original purpose of teaching women Latin was diplomacy, but later women used the language in many ways.