Vanessa Braganza (Harvard): “'Many Ciphers, Although But One for Meaning': Lady Mary Wroth’s Many-Sided Monogram"
Date and Time
September 25, 2019
05:15PM - 05:15PM EDT
Location
Room 218, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
“'Many Ciphers, Although But One for Meaning': Lady Mary Wroth’s Many-Sided Monogram"
Vanessa Braganza (Harvard)
This paper proposes a reinterpretation of Mary Wroth’s monogram based on my recent discovery of the second extant volume from Wroth’s personal library: an early seventeenth-century edition of Xenophon’s Cyrvpaedia bearing the same monogram as that found on the Penshurst autograph manuscript of Loves Victorie.