Moderata Fonte, Lucrezia Marinella, Giuseppe Passi: An Early Seventeenth-Century Feminist Controversy

The Superiority of Women in the Seventeenth Century

“…The first is the Venetian Lucrezia Marinella (1571–1653), who published La nobiltà et l'eccellenza delle donne co'diffetti et mancamenti de gli uomini ( The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men ) in Venice in 1600 and revised and expanded it for a second edition in 1601. Marinella was a prolific author of polemical treatises, lyric and narrative poetry, and devotional literature who was connected to the intellectual life of the Venetian republic through the second Venetian academy (Kolsky 2001: 976). The second is Marguerite Buffet (d. 1680), who published a work in two parts in Paris in 1668, entitled Nouvelles observations sur la langue française, Où il est traitté des termes anciens & inusitez, & du bel usage des mots nouveaux , avec les Éloges des Illustres Sçavantes, tant Anciennes que Modernes (New observations on the French language, in which are discussed ancient and unusual terms, and the appropriate use of new words, with In Praise of Illustrious Learned Women, both Ancient and Modern).…”

Capitalizando la Querelle des femmes: Una oportunidad de negocio para sus editores

“…Decimos "parecer" para dejar constancia de que el consenso en torno a las intenciones de Marinella no es unánime. Kolsky (2001) y Sinclair (2020), entre otros, ven en el discurso una insinuatio que no contradeciría el contenido de la Nobiltà, mientras que Benedetti (2008) sostiene que la última obra de Marinelli constituye un verdadero cambio de posiciones.…”