1. Moderata Fonte, directly translating to Modest Well, is a pseudonym of Modesta di Pozzo di Forzi, known as Modesto Pozzo, a Venetian writer and poet.
14 Facts About Moderata Fonte
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Moderata Fonte spent several years in the convent of Santa Marta where, thanks to her extraordinary memory, she was often displayed as a child prodigy.
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Moderata Fonte was able to repeat long sermons she had heard or read only once.
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Moderata Fonte's brother taught her to read and write in Latin, draw, sing, and play the lute and harpsichord.
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Likewise, Moderata Fonte describes her husband in one of her writings as a man of "virtue, goodness and integrity".
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One of Moderata Fonte's first known works is a musical play performed before the Doge Da Ponte in 1581 at the festival of St Stephen's Day.
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Moderata Fonte's husband placed a marble epitaph on her tomb which describes Pozzo as 'femina doctissima' [a very learned woman].
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Moderata Fonte frequently used irony, paradox, and address to the reader.
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Moderata Fonte was influenced by the rhythm of Plato's dialogues.
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The garden setting displays the potential feminized society as all of Moderata Fonte's characters express the moral capacity of women and their deserving of material means to be autonomous, though from different arguments.
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Moderata Fonte was a transgressive author that influenced modern thinking and understanding of feminism in historical context.
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Moderata Fonte's manuscript was published after her death, as she finished completing her writings on the day before she died giving birth to her fourth child.
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The themes of Moderata Fonte's works are literary spaces of reevaluation.
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Moderata Fonte became very cited in other works of commentary on women including Pietro Paolo di Ribera and Cristofano Bronzini.