Arcangela Tarabotti (1604–1652), Venetian nun and polemicist, was known for her protest against forced monachization and her advocacy for the education of women and their participation in public life. She responded to Francesco Buoninsegni’s Against the Vanities of Women (1638) with the Antisatire (1644), a defense of women’s fashions and a denunciation of men, but also a strong condemnation of men’s treatment of women and of the subordination of women in society. Both Buoninsegni and Tarabotti write with the exaggeration and absurd arguments typical of Menippean satire; they flaunt their knowledge of ancient and contemporary literature in a prose interspersed with poetry and replete with the astonishing Baroque conceits that delighted their contemporaries.
The Other Voice in Early Modern Women: The Toronto Series volume 70
- ISBN10 0866986227
- ISBN13 9780866986229
- Publish Date 18 February 2020
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 114
- Language English