Dr. Meredith Ray’s book, Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy (Harvard University Press, 2015) is featured in the new issue of Humanities, the magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities:

She discussed her recent research and her publication Margherita Sarrocchi’s Letters to Galileo: Astronomy, Astrology and Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Italy at four distinguished venues this spring.

1) Lecture at Brown University, Italian Studies Colloquium, 2/4: “Margherita Sarrocchi’s Letters to Galileo”

2) Panelist on roundtable on early modern feminism in Venice, at an event sponsored by New York University and Carnegie Hall, 2/10: “Sirens of La Serenissima: Creative Women and Feminist Forerunners in Early Modern Venice”

3) Lecture at CUNY (The Graduate Center, City University of New York), 3/16: “Early Modern Women and Communities of Science”

 4) Lecture at Harvard University, De Bosis Colloquium in Italian Studies, 4/10: “Margherita Sarrocchi’s Letters to Galileo: Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in 17th-Century Italy”