Anna Maria van Schurman (1607–1678) was a Dutch Golden Age scholar, poet, theologian, philosopher, and artist. Anne R. Larsen is professor emerita of French and senior research professor at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. She is the author of Anna Maria van Schurman, “The Star of Utrecht”: The Educational Vision and Reception of a Savante. Steve Maiullo is associate professor of classics at Hope College and has published articles on Plato and the teaching of Latin and Greek.
This volume of letters and poems, which comes at a propitious time in Anna Maria van Schurman scholarship, is far more inclusive than anything I have seen, and will interest a potentially large audience of knowledgeable readers. The letters included here, in superior translations, display the art of letter writing in all its facets and possibilities, trace the continued exchange of ideas with members of van Schurman's circle, and exemplify the scholarly debates of the seventeenth century, with a woman as one of the debaters. -- Cornelia Niekus Moore, University of Hawaii