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Virginia Cox was born in England and educated at Cambridge University, where she received her PhD in Italian literature in 1990. She taught at the universities of Edinburgh, UCL, and Cambridge before moving to the Department of Italian Studies at New York University in 2003. Her fields of specialism are Italian Renaissance literature and intellectual history and the history of rhetoric. She lives in New York and London.

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Historical fiction: craft, commerce, choices

To mark the publication of my second novel, The Peril, a sequel to my 2013 The Subtlest Soul, I wanted to talk a little about an experience I had in connection with my first novel which taught me some interesting things about the way in which the world of agents and publishers think about historical fiction.

In the autumn of 2014, shortly after The Subtlest Soul won the Historical Novel Society’s Read more of this blog post »

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	The Subtlest Soul (The Merchant of Secrets, #1) 4.21 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Short History of the Italian Renaissance 3.84 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women's Writing in Italy, 1400–1650 4.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Peril (The Merchant of Secrets #2) 4.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lyric Poetry by Women of the Italian Renaissance 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Prodigious Muse: Women's Writing in Counter-Reformation Italy 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Renaissance Dialogue: Literary Dialogue in its Social and Political Contexts, Castiglione to Galileo (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Series Number 2) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rhetoric of Cicero in its Medieval and Early Renaissance Commentary Tradition by Virginia Cox (Goodreads Author) (Editor), John Ward (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Verso una storia di genere della letteratura italiana. Percorsi di genere e gender studies by Virginia Cox (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Chiara Ferrari (Editor), Giulietta Stefani (Translator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Drama, Poetry and Music in Late-Renaissance Italy: The life and works of Leonora Bernardi by Virginia Cox (Goodreads Author), Lisa Sampson, Anna Wainwright (Translator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars