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Lucrezia Marinella

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[Revised entry by Marguerite Deslauriers on February 27, 2024.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html]
Lucrezia Marinella was a Venetian author of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, who published prolifically in a range of genres, primarily devotional literature (in prose and verse) and philosophical polemics. Her work, La nobilta et l’eccellenza delle donne, co’ difetti et mancamenti de gli uomini, (The Nobility and Excellence of Women with the Defects and Vices of Men), published in 1600, was one of the first polemical treatises written by a woman in Italian as part of an…

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