TY - BOOK ID - 77871975 TI - The nobility and excellence of women, and the defects and vices of men AU - Panizza, Letizia AU - Dunhill, Anne PY - 1999 SN - 1281125881 9786611125882 0226505502 9780226505503 9780226505459 0226505456 0226505456 0226505464 9780226505466 9780226505503 PB - Chicago The University of Chicago Press DB - UniCat KW - Women KW - Human females KW - Wimmin KW - Woman KW - Womon KW - Womyn KW - Females KW - Human beings KW - Femininity KW - History KW - Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality KW - anno 1400-1499 KW - anno 1500-1599 KW - Women - Early works to 1800 KW - Women - History - Renaissance, 1450-1600 KW - Women - Italy - History - Renaissance, 1450-1600 KW - gender, poet, poetry, poetics, women, woman, womens, rights, civil, philosophy, moral, natural, 1500s, 1600s, italy, female, intellectual, thinker, venice, biography, biographical, academic, scholarly, research, marriage, literature, roles, literary, writer, writing, convent, religion, religious studies, epic, pastoral, genre, prose, feminism, groundbreaking, misogynist, tradition. KW - Renaissance KW - Images of women KW - Book KW - Sex differences UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77871975 AB - A gifted poet, a women's rights activist, and an expert on moral and natural philosophy, Lucrezia Marinella (1571-1653) was known throughout Italy as the leading female intellectual of her age. Born into a family of Venetian physicians, she was encouraged to study, and, fortunately, she did not share the fate of many of her female contemporaries, who were forced to join convents or were pressured to marry early. Marinella enjoyed a long literary career, writing mainly religious, epic, and pastoral poetry, and biographies of famous women in both verse and prose. Marinella's masterpiece, The Nobility and Excellence of Women, and the Defects and Vices of Men was first published in 1600, composed at a furious pace in answer to Giusepe Passi's diatribe about women's alleged defects. This polemic displays Marinella's vast knowledge of the Italian poetic tradition and demonstrates her ability to argue against authors of the misogynist tradition from Boccaccio to Torquato Tasso. Trying to effect real social change, Marinella argued that morally, intellectually, and in many other ways, women are superior to men. ER -