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Antisatire: In Defense of Women, against Francesco Buoninsegni

By Arcangela Tarabotti

Book information

Publisher
Iter Press
Year
2023
ISBN
0866986227, 9780866986229
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5092622 bytes)
Series
The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series 70
Edition
1
Pages
114\131
Time added
2024-01-27 11:27:21

Description

Arcangela Tarabotti (1604–1652), Venetian nun and polemicist, was known for her protest against forced monachization and her advocacy for the education of women and their participation in public life. She responded to Francesco Buoninsegni’s Against the Vanities of Women (1638) with the Antisatire (1644), a defense of women’s fashions and a denunciation of men, but also a strong condemnation of men’s treatment of women and of the subordination of women in society. Both Buoninsegni and Tarabotti write with the exaggeration and absurd arguments typical of Menippean satire; they flaunt their knowledge of ancient and contemporary literature in a prose interspersed with poetry and replete with the astonishing Baroque conceits that delighted their contemporaries. The Other Voice in Early Modern Women: The Toronto Series volume 70

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