Swashbuckling nuns and other literary treasures of Spain’s Golden Age rediscovered

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A new exhibit at Spain’s Cervantes Institute looks at some of the most important — but largely ignored —women writers of Spain’s 16th and 17th centuries. Host Marco Werman speaks to Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez, curator of “Both Wise and Valiant,” an exhibit at the Cervantes Institute in Madrid.

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