Women of the Romance Countries
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A history of the women of Italy and Spain and their influence for good and evil.
Chapters (49)(click to expand)
- WOMAN
- In all ages and in all countries
- WOMEN OF THE ROMANCE COUNTRIES
- JOHN R. EFFINGER, Ph.D. Of the University of Michigan
- MARIA DE PADILLA After the painting by Paul Gervais.
- THE RITTENHOUSE PRESS PHILADELPHIA Copyrighted at Washington and entered at Stationers' Hall, London 1907 1908 and printed by arrangement with George Barrie's Sons. PRINTED IN U. S. A.
- PREFACE
- Part First Italian Women
- Chapter I
- The Age of the Countess Matilda of Tuscany
- Chapter II
- The Neapolitan Court in the Time of Queen Joanna
- Chapter III
- Women and the Church
- Chapter IV
- The Women of the Midi
- Chapter V
- Influence of Women in Early Literature
- Chapter VI
- Women in the Early Renaissance
- Chapter VII
- Women in the Later Renaissance
- Chapter VIII
- The Borgias and the Bad Women of the Sixteenth Century
- Chapter IX
- The Brighter Side of the Sixteenth Century
- Chapter X
- The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- Chapter XI
- Italian Women in the Nineteenth Century
- Part Second Spanish Women
- Chapter XII
- The Condition of Spain before the Moorish Invasion
- Chapter XIII
- Women among the Moors
- Chapter XIV
- The Women of the Little Monarchies
- Chapter XV
- Women in Early Political Life
- Chapter XVI
- The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
- Chapter XVII
- The Age of Isabella—Spanish Unity
- Chapter XVIII
- The Women of the Sixteenth Century
- Chapter XIX
- The Slow Decay of Spanish Power
- Chapter XX
- The Women of Modern Spain
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