«..Cessate dir male de le donne!». Echi della querelle des femmes europea nel primo Rinascimento italiano (1520-1540)
Journal title HISTORIA MAGISTRA
Author/s Francesca Lotti
Publishing Year 2016 Issue 2015/19
Language Italian Pages 13 P. 47-59 File size 109 KB
DOI 10.3280/HM2015-019006
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This paper aims to analyze some texts appeared in the fifteenth and sixteenth century in defense of the importance of women’s role in the family economy and civic life: texts belonging to a typically humanistic school of thought which had intended to defend women against the dominant position, which had stamped a mark on the woman’s subordination to man. The intent of these texts is counterstriking to the arguments used in support of the inferiority of the woman and instead demonstrating her parity with the masculine gender; while some authors are devoted to outlining portraits of famous women for their virtues, others focus on the defense of the woman from the charge of being a temptress and weaver of deceptions and lies: in some treaties - such as the Dialogo de gli incantamenti by Angelo Forte (1533) - refusal of misogyny connects to the criticism on the reality of witchcraft.
Keywords: Women, Renaissance, Witchcraft, Humanism, Misogyny, Physiognomy.
Francesca Lotti, «..Cessate dir male de le donne!». Echi della querelle des femmes europea nel primo Rinascimento italiano (1520-1540) in "HISTORIA MAGISTRA" 19/2015, pp 47-59, DOI: 10.3280/HM2015-019006