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Author / Creator:	Tarabotti, Arcangela.
Uniform title:	Semplicita ingannata. English
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Description:	1 online resource (xxix, 182 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	The other voice in early modern Europe Other voice in early modern Europe.
Subject:	Monastic and religious life of women -- Italy -- Venice. Women -- Italy -- Venice -- Social conditions. Patriarchy -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church. Women -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church. Monastic and religious life of women. Patriarchy -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church. Women -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church. Women -- Social conditions. Italy -- Venice.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11158413

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Other authors / contributors:	Panizza, Letizia.
ISBN:	9780226789675 0226789675 9780226789651 0226789659 9780226789668 0226789667 128112608X 9781281126085
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 33-36) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Sharp-witted and sharp-tongued, Arcangela Tarabotti (1604-52) yearned to be formally educated and enjoy an independent life in Venetian literary circles. But instead, at sixteen, her father forced her into a Benedictine convent. To protest her confinement, Tarabotti composed polemical works exposing the many injustices perpetrated against women of her day. Paternal Tyranny, the first of these works, is a fiery but carefully argued manifesto against the oppression of women by the Venetian patriarchy. Denouncing key misogynist texts of the era, Tarabotti shows how despicable it was for Venice, a.
Other form:	Print version: Tarabotti, Arcangela. Semplicita ingannata. English. Paternal tyranny. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004 0226789659 9780226789651
Standard no.:	9780226789651

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