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Moderata Fonte (1555 - 1592)

Short name Moderata Fonte
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First name Moderata
Birth name Fonte
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Alternative name Modesta Pozza
Date of birth 1555
Date of death 1592
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Sex Female
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Lived in Italy
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Moderata Fonte was ...
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Floridoro (1590) 0 0
Il merito delle donne (1600) 0 0
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Receptions of Moderata Fonte, the person

For receptions of her works, see under each individual Work.

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Essai sur le caractère, les mœurs et l’esprit des femmes dans les différens siècles. Thomas, Antoine Léonard 1772 comments on person
Histoire litteraire d’Italie Pierre Louis Ginguené 1811 comments on person
De l'Influence des femmes Mongellaz, Fanny 1828 is biography of

MENTIONED IN:
- Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992: "Her most famous work is Il merito delle Donne, a treatise on the superior nature of women, published in 1600, which formed an important part of an ongoing debate between the sexes in this period".
- Irma B. Jaffe. _Shining Eyes, Cruel Fortune: The Lives and Loves of Italian Renaissance Women Poets_. Written with Gernando Colombardo; foreword by Aldo Scaglione. New York: Fordham University Press, 2002.