Modesta di Pozzo di Forzi | |
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| Born | June 15, 1555[1] |
| Died | November 2, 1592[2] |
| Pen name | Moderata Fonte |
| Language | Italian |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Period | 16th century |
| Subject | Feminism |
| Notable works | The Worth of Women |
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Moderata Fonte, directly translating to Modest Well,[3] is a pseudonym of Modesta di Pozzo di Forzi (or Zorzi), also known as Modesto Pozzo (or Modesta, feminization of Modesto),[4] (1555–1592) a Venetian writer and poet.[5] Besides the posthumously-published dialogues, Giustizia delle donne and Il merito delle donne (gathered in The Worth of Women, 1600), for which she is best known, she wrote a romance and religious poetry. Details of her life are known from the biography by Giovanni Niccolò Doglioni (1548-1629), her uncle, included as a preface to the dialogue.[6]
- ^ Fonte, Moderata (1997). The Worth of Women : Wherein is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press. p. 33. ISBN 0-226-25681-2.
- ^ Fonte, Moderata (1997). The Worth of Women : Wherein is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press. p. 38. ISBN 0-226-25681-2.
- ^ "On Moderata Fonte's Feminist Reimagining of 16th-Century Venice". Literary Hub. 27 March 2018.
- ^ Paola Malpezzi Price, "Pozzo, Modesto," Mary Hays, Female Biography; or, Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of All Ages and Countries (1803). Chawton House Library Series: Women's Memoirs, ed. Gina Luria Walker, Memoirs of Women Writers Part II (Pickering & Chatto: London, 2013), vol. 10, 79-80, editorial notes, 571.
- ^ Spencer, Anna Garlin in Kennerley, Mitchell (ed.) (1912). "The Drama of the Woman of Genius". The Forum. 47. New York: Forum Pub. Co.: 41.
{{cite journal}}:|author=has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Cox, Virginia.Fonte, Moderata (1555-1592), Italian women writers, University of Chicago library, 2004.