我想请教大家。单从题目上看，怎么能够知道”the historian mentioned in the second paragraph" 是指什么historian---文中的historian很明显分成两部分，而又分别持不同观点啊！
The passage suggests that the historian mentioned in the second paragraph (lines 19-42) would be most likely to agree with which of the following assertions regarding Alessandra Strozzi?
A. Alessandra was able to act more independently than most women of her time because she was a widow.
B Alessandra was aware that her personal motivation was embedded in a social context.
C Alessandra had goals and interests similar to those of many other widows in her society.
D. Alessandra is an example of a Renaissance woman who expressed her individuality through independent action.
E. Alessandra was exceptional because she was able to effect changes in the social constraints placed upon women in her society.
以下附文章：
Q35 to Q37:
Historians who study European
women of the Renaissance try to mea-
sure “independence,” “options,” and
Line other indicators of the degree to which
(5) the expression of women’s individuality
was either permitted or suppressed.
Influenced by Western individualism,
these historians define a peculiar form
of personhood: an innately bounded
(10) unit, autonomous and standing apart
from both nature and society. An
anthropologist, however, would contend
that a person can be conceived in ways
other than as an “individual.” In many
(15) societies a person’s identity is not
intrinsically unique and self-contained
but instead is defined within a complex
web of social relationships.
In her study of the fifteenth-century
(20) Florentine widow Alessandra Strozzi, a
historian who specializes in European
women of the Renaissance attributes
individual intention and authorship of
actions to her subject. This historian
(25) assumes that Alessandra had goals
and interests different from those of her
sons, yet much of the historian’s own
research reveals that Alessandra
acted primarily as a champion of her
(30) sons’ interests, taking their goals as
her own. Thus Alessandra conforms
more closely to the anthropologist’s
notion that personal motivation is
embedded in a social context. Indeed,
(35) one could argue that Alessandra did
not distinguish her personhood from
that of her sons. In Renaissance
Europe the boundaries of the con-
ceptual self were not always firm
(40) and closed and did not necessarily
coincide with the boundaries of
the bodily self.
(20) Florentine widow Alessandra Strozzi, a
historian who specializes in European
women of the Renaissance attributes
individual intention and authorship of
actions to her subject.这句可以很明显的看出说的是谁了吧？
research reveals that Alessandra
acted primarily as a champion of her
(30) sons’ interests, taking their goals as
her own.
为什么不是这些historian呢？
research reveals that Alessandra
acted primarily as a champion of her
(30) sons’ interests, taking their goals as
her own.
为什么不是这些historian呢？
是同一个hitorian，MM再看看
同一个hitorian? 太shocking 了！
那逻辑意思是不是说这个historian做了两件事情：
1。study 了一个人--the fifteenth-century Florentine widow Alessandra Strozzi.
在该study中，她assume that Alessandra had goals and interests different from those of her sons,
2。她自己又做了一些research，结果却和她在study中的assumption不一样--reveals that Alessandraacted primarily as a champion of her sons’ interests, taking their goals as her own.
好象有道理哦。。。！谢谢ethyl !
只是为什么要用assume这个词呢？ 他都通过自己的research证明了A只是代儿子实现理想，那还在study一本书的时候assume相反的东西。为啥啊？
哦！是不是这样理解啊？就是她为了研究individualism in renaissance women, 先study了一本书，该书令她得出一种结论，然后自己做了一些research. 而research的结果显示由那本书得出的结论是错误的？
请指正！
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