Moderata Fonte : women and life in sixteenth-century Venice / Paola Malpezzi Price.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Malpezzi Price, Paola, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fonte, Moderata, 1555-1592.

Fonte, Moderata.

Women--Italy--Venice--History--16th century.

Women.

Women--Italy--Venice--Social conditions--16th century.

Social conditions.

History.

Italy--Venice.

Physical Description:

175 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, [2003]

Contents:

Part I The Woman, the Writer, and the City

1. Moderate Fonte: Her Life and Works 27

2. Growing Up Female and Literate in Sixteenth-Century Venice 40

3. Cultural and Social Life in Sixteenth-Century Venice 51

4. The Myth of Venice and Sixteenth-Century Women 85

Part II Moderata Fonte's Defense of Women

5. The Woman Warrior 101

6. The Enchantress or the Rewriting of the Myth of Circe 113

7. Rhetorical Strategies in Two Dialogues of the Italian Cinquecento 122

8. A Woman's Discourse in the Early Modern Period 132.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-169) and index.

ISBN:

0838639984

OCLC:

51804621