Venice: Eredi di Francesco Rampazetto, 1581.
First edition. One of the first chivalric romances composed by a woman, and a strident response to the Renaissance querelle des femmes. Moderata Fonte was born Modesta Pozzo in the Republic of Venice in the plague year 1555. Her parents succumbed to the Black.....
Agostini Grisei: Venice and Macerata, 1646.
In the early part of the seventeenth century, Dominican friar and hagiographer in Rome, Giacinto de Nobili, encountered a slender manuscript called the Speculum cerratanorum, written by the Urbino vicar Teseo Pini in the 1480s. The so-called beggar's treatise—the first with Italian roots—revealed in.....
Florence: Lorenzo Torrentino, c1551.
The remarkable case of young Margaretha Weiss [1529-?], a girl from the village of Rode outside of Speyer, who, for three years following her tenth birthday, reportedly neither ate nor drank, yet seemed to grow more or less normally, play with her friends, talk, laugh, and.....