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The worth of women : wherein is clearly revealed their nobility and their superiority to men / Moderata Fonte (Modesta Pozzo) ; edited and translated by Virginia Cox.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Series: Other voice in early modern EuropePublication details: Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, �1997.Description: 1 online resource (xxvii, 290 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0226256839
  • 9780226256832
  • 9780226256818
  • 0226256812
  • 9780226256825
  • 0226256820
  • 1281125636
  • 9781281125637
  • 9786611125639
  • 6611125639
Uniform titles:
  • Merito delle donne. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Worth of women.DDC classification:
  • 305.4 21
LOC classification:
  • HQ1148 .F6513 1997eb
Other classification:
  • 71.33
Online resources:
Contents:
Moderata Fonte and "The Worth of Women" -- Introduction -- Life and Early Works -- Structure and Arguments -- The Question of Unity -- "The Worth of Women" and Renaissance Literary Tradition -- Fortunes and Influence -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Key to Abbreviations -- Note on the Text -- A Note on Fonte's Sources -- The Worth of Women -- Dedicatory Letter -- Life of Moderata Fonte -- First Day -- Second Day -- Appendix -- The Theme of Women's Equality with Men in Moderata Fonte's "Floridoro."
Summary: "Written in dialogue form, the work purportedly records a conversation among seven Venetian noblewomen of widely varying age and experience, whose discussions, though lossely unified around the theme of men's unjustifiable hostility to women and possible cures for it, range over almost every aspects of their lives."--Introduction, p.1.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Moderata Fonte and "The Worth of Women" -- Introduction -- Life and Early Works -- Structure and Arguments -- The Question of Unity -- "The Worth of Women" and Renaissance Literary Tradition -- Fortunes and Influence -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Key to Abbreviations -- Note on the Text -- A Note on Fonte's Sources -- The Worth of Women -- Dedicatory Letter -- Life of Moderata Fonte -- First Day -- Second Day -- Appendix -- The Theme of Women's Equality with Men in Moderata Fonte's "Floridoro."

"Written in dialogue form, the work purportedly records a conversation among seven Venetian noblewomen of widely varying age and experience, whose discussions, though lossely unified around the theme of men's unjustifiable hostility to women and possible cures for it, range over almost every aspects of their lives."--Introduction, p.1.

English.

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