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Online-Ressource (322 p.)
ISBN:
9780226256818
Serie:
Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, The
Inhalt:
Gender equality and the responsibility of husbands and fathers: issues that loom large today had currency in Renaissance Venice as well, as evidenced by the publication in 1600 of The Worth of Women by Moderata Fonte. Moderata Fonte was the pseudonym of Modesta Pozzo (1555-92), a Venetian woman who was something of an anomaly. Neither cloistered in a convent nor as liberated from prevailing codes of decorum as a courtesan might be, Pozzo was a respectable, married mother who produced literature in genres that were commonly considered "masculine"-the chivalric romance and the literary dialogue
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The Worth of Women; CONTENTS; Introduction to the Series; Acknowledgments; Moderata Fonte and "The Worth of Women"; Key to Abbreviations; Note on the Text; A Note on Fonte's Sources; The Worth of Women; Appendix The Theme of Women's Equality with Men in Moderata Fonte's "Floridoro"; Works Cited; Index;
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ISBN 9780226256832
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ISBN 9780226256818
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Worth of Women : Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men
Sprache:
Englisch
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