WRITER

Cassandra Fedele

1465 - 1558

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Cassandra Fedele (c. 1465 – 1558 CE) was an Italian humanist writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cassandra Fedele has received more than 41,071 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Cassandra Fedele is the 5,596th most popular writer, the 3,899th most popular biography from Italy and the 274th most popular Italian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 41k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Letters and Orations
2010
Clarissimae feminae Cassandrae Fidelis Venetae Epistolae & orationes posthumae
Correspondence, Early works to 1800, Latin letters
1636
Orazioni ed epistole
Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern), Translations into Italian, Correspondence
2010
Letters and orations
Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern), Correspondence, Feminists
By the end of the fifteenth century, Cassandra Fedele (1465-1558), a learned middle-class woman of Venice, was arguably the most famous woman writer and scholar in Europe. A cultural icon in her own time, she regularly corresponded with the king of France, lords of Milan and Naples, the Borgia pope Alexander VI, and even maintained a ten-year epistolary exchange with Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain that resulted in an invitation for her to join their court. Fedele's letters reveal the central, mediating role she occupied in a community of scholars otherwise inaccessible to women. Her unique admittance into this community is also highlighted by her presence as the first independent woman writer in Italy to speak publicly and, more importantly, the first to address philosophical, political, and moral issues in her own voice. Her three public orations and almost all of her letters, translated into English, are presented here for the first time.
2000

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Cassandra Fedele ranks 5,596 out of 7,302. Before her are Yordan Radichkov, Fang Fang, Åsne Seierstad, J. Slauerhoff, Marilyn Ferguson, and Otokar Březina. After her are Ha Jin, Whittaker Chambers, L. J. Smith, James C. Collins, Mark Haddon, and Domiziana Giordano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1465, Cassandra Fedele ranks 21. Before her are Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Johann von Staupitz, Philotheus of Pskov, Diogo Lopes de Sequeira, Beatriz Galindo, and Hector Boece.  Among people deceased in 1558, Cassandra Fedele ranks 17. Before her are Jean Fernel, Macropedius, Francisco de Sá de Miranda, Anna van Egmont, Caupolicán, and Georg I, Count of Württemberg-Mömpelgard.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Cassandra Fedele ranks 3,899 out of 5,161. Before her are Andrew Viterbi (1935), Margherita Buy (1962), Romano Fogli (1938), Giovanni Zucchi (1931), Stefania Belmondo (1969), and Ardico Magnini (1928). After her are Gaetano Savi (1769), Domiziana Giordano (1959), Mario Francesco Pompedda (1929), Noemi (1982), Pietro Citati (1930), and Sicard of Benevento (null).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Cassandra Fedele ranks 274. Before her are Guido Gozzano (1883), Carlo Porta (1775), Julia Balbilla (72), Niccolò Ammaniti (1966), Goffredo Parise (1929), and Luigi Galleani (1861). After her are Domiziana Giordano (1959), Pietro Citati (1930), Federico De Roberto (1861), Mario Luzi (1914), Federigo Tozzi (1883), and Peider Lansel (1863).

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