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Article: Moderata Fonte, Women and Life in Sixteenth Century Venice.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2005
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Moderata Fonte, Women and Life in Sixteenth Century Venice. By PAOLA MALPEZZI PRICE. Madison and Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 175 pp. 32 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8386-399-4.
This is a good moment to present the life and works of Moderata Fonte (pseudonym for Modesta da Pozzo), as in the last twenty five years she has been the object of several studies which help the understanding of her activities and context. In 1988 Adriana Chemello (who writes the foreword to the present monograph) produced her edition of Il merito delle donne (Mirano: Eidos), which was preceded by a full introduction in which she ...
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