„Достойнството на жените”. Модерата Фонте, една венецианска писателка от XVI в.
“Il merito delle donne”. Moderata Fonte, a venetian writer of XVI century

Author(s): Raina Nikolova
Subject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: ЮГОЗАПАДЕН УНИВЕРСИТЕТ »НЕОФИТ РИЛСКИ«
Keywords: women writer; Venice; Querelle dеs Femmes
Summary/Abstract: This article aims to present a Venetian writer of the sixteenth century, namedModerata Fonte, pseudonym of Modesta da Pozzo di Forzi. The author is unknown to theBulgarian audience and is presented with her most famous work Il merito delle donne (TheWorth of Women), a posthumously-published dialogue in 1600. In Il merito delle donne shecriticizes the treatment of women by men while celebrating women’s virtues and intelligenceand arguing that women are superior to men.This work is seen as part of Querelle dеsFemmes.

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