Moderata Fonte

Moderata Fonte, pseudonym of Modesta Pozzo (1555–1592) was an Italian writer from Venice. Besides the posthumously-published dialogue, Il merito delle donne^[1] (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.^[2]

Works

• The Worth of Women: Wherein is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men By Moderata Fonte (1997) translated by Virginia Cox
• Moderata Fonte (Modesta Pozzo). Floridoro: A Chivalric Romance. Ed. by Valeria Finucci. Tr. by Julia Kisacky. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp xxx, 493 (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe).

Further reading

• Paola Malpezzi Price (2003), Moderata Fonte: Women and Life in Sixteenth-century Venice
• Rinaldina Russell (editor) (1994), Italian Women Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook, pp.128-137 by Paola Malpezzi Price

References

1. ^ http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/march99/fonte2.html
2. ^ http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/IWW/BIOS/A0016.html

External links

• it:s:Autore:Modesta Pozzo

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Name	Fonte, Moderata
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Date of birth	1555
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Date of death	1592
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