32 Facts About Lucrezia Marinella

Lucrezia Marinella was an Italian poet, author, philosopher, polemicist, and women's rights advocate.

Lucrezia Marinella is best known for her polemical treatise The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men.

Lucrezia Marinella's works have been noted for bringing women into the philosophical and scientific community during the late Renaissance.

Lucrezia Marinella was the daughter of a celebrated physician and natural philosopher, Giovanni Marinelli who wrote novels, some of which were on women's well-being, hygiene and beauty.

Lucrezia Marinella had a close relationship with Giovanni Nicolo Doglioni who was one of the founders of the Venetian academy.

Lucrezia Marinella was supported by her peers and influential in the formation of the 'new' Venetian academy because of her powerful writing style and insight into women's rights.

Lucrezia Marinella helped other female writers to continue publishing their writings, which was very rare for women in this period because of countless restrictions.

However, Lucrezia Marinella did not enter the convent and wasn't pressured into marriage.

Lucrezia Marinella came from a professional family that very much encouraged her studies, and her father was extremely supportive.

Although, Lucrezia Marinella received support from her peers to delay marriage and further her education she still had many barriers preventing her from writing.

Lucrezia Marinella lived during the Counter-Reformation which was one of the most difficult periods in Italian history.

Lucrezia Marinella did not travel, except to local shrines, there is no evidence she gathered with other authors for discussions, and there is no record of her even attending meetings held in academies outside.

Lucrezia Marinella's works mostly dealt with women's rights and she even asserted that women were superior to men, which was a popular argument in that time for polemical and philosophical works.

Lucrezia Marinella refuses to accept the idea of an imperfect woman, as suggested by Aristotelians.

Lucrezia Marinella argued with their belief that women's cold humoral temperaments are inherently different, making them inferior to men.

Lucrezia Marinella wrote in the style of pastoral romance, as in Arcadia Felice.

Lucrezia Marinella embraced pastoral writings because it permitted her to describe a society that redefines the relationships between men and women.

Pastoral forms provided the perfect sanctuary for Lucrezia Marinella to encode details of her personal life into her writings, like in Arcadia Felice.

Lucrezia Marinella frequently wrote in response to polemics against women.

Lucrezia Marinella's work ranged from philosophical commentaries on poetry to religious works, and drew heavily on a wide variety of sources including scientific and mythological works.

Lucrezia Marinella's articulated response to Passi's misogynistic claims propelled other people to show their disdain with his writing.

Lucrezia Marinella took the first part of her own title from the Italian translation of a supposedly anonymous French tract, "Della nobilita et eccellenza delle donne," printed in Venice in 1549.

Lucrezia Marinella was the first woman in Italy to argue with a man in print, and it was the only time she wrote explicitly about the misogyny of Passi.

Lucrezia Marinella highlighted the fact that women were excluded from the political discussion in this time.

In Enrico, Lucrezia Marinella chose to write in one of the highest literary genres of her time, that was for cultural reasons out of favor in Venice.

Lucrezia Marinella used a combination of Gospel accounts and other gospels such as Pseudo-Matthew and the Protoevangelium of James, which are to be noted as apocryphal.

However, Lucrezia Marinella has been accused of plagiarizing parts of this text.

Lucrezia Marinella wrote one of the longest and articulated works on the Virgin Mary.

Lucrezia Marinella argues in favor of sequestration for women, places the greatest value on the skills women use while managing a home and raising children, and locates all female virtue in the domestic arts.

Lucrezia Marinella dedicated The Nobility and Excellence of Women to another doctor and friend of her father Lucio Scarano who took a particular interest in her literary formation.

Lucrezia Marinella dedicated her poem Amoro Innamorato et Impazzato to a female reader: the dutchess of Mantua, Catherine de' Medici, Governor of Siena.

Lucrezia Marinella was buried in the nearby parish church of S Pantaleone.