The nobility and excellence of women, and the defects and vices of men /

The nobility and excellence of women, and the defects and vices of men /

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Author / Creator:	Marinella, Lucrezia, 1571-1653.
Uniform title:	Nobiltà et l'eccellenza delle donne, co' difetti et mancamenti degli uomoni. English
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Description:	1 online resource (xxvii, 200 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Other voice in early modern Europe Other voice in early modern Europe.
Subject:	Women -- Early works to 1800. Women -- History -- Renaissance, 1450-1600. Women -- Italy -- History -- Renaissance, 1450-1600. Women. Women -- Renaissance. Italy. Early works. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11201655

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Other authors / contributors:	Dunhill, Anne. Panizza, Letizia.
ISBN:	0226505502 9780226505503 9780226505459 0226505456 0226505456 0226505464 9780226505466 9780226505503
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-190) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	A gifted poet, a women's rights activist, and an expert on moral and natural philosophy, Lucrezia Marinella (1571-1653) was known throughout Italy as the leading female intellectual of her age. Born into a family of Venetian physicians, she was encouraged to study, and, fortunately, she did not share the fate of many of her female contemporaries, who were forced to join convents or were pressured to marry early. Marinella enjoyed a long literary career, writing mainly religious, epic, and pastoral poetry, and biographies of famous women in both verse and prose. Marinella's masterpiece, The Nobility and Excellence of Women, and the Defects and Vices of Men was first published in 1600, composed at a furious pace in answer to Giusepe Passi's diatribe about women's alleged defects. This polemic displays Marinella's vast knowledge of the Italian poetic tradition and demonstrates her ability to argue against authors of the misogynist tradition from Boccaccio to Torquato Tasso. Trying to effect real social change, Marinella argued that morally, intellectually, and in many other ways, women are superior to men.
Other form:	Print version: Marinella, Lucrezia, 1571-1653. Nobiltà et l'eccellenza delle donne, co' difetti et mancamenti degli uomoni. English. Nobility and excellence of women, and the defects and vices of men. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999