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Zodiacus Christianus, seu, Signa 12 diuinae praedestinationis vnà cum 12 symbolis quibus signa illa adumbrantur
This emblem book, a Catholic devotional work, was printed in Munich by Anna Bernhard Berg, the widow of Adam Berg, for publisher Raphael Sadeler. The Flemish Sadeler family played a dominant role in engraving, publishing and selling prints in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Note Anna Berg’s name in the colophon. -
An Apologie for Women, or, An Opposition to Mr. Dr. G. His Assertion: Who Held in the Act at Oxforde, anno 1608, That It Was Lawfull for Husbands to Beate Their Wiues
It was legal and quite common for husbands to beat their wives in early modern England. Heale’s An Apologie was one of the earliest condemnations of the practice. He wrote it after William Gouger gave a public lecture upholding a husband’s right to beat his wife. In his dedication, Heale acknowledges “the Ladie M. H.” for urging him to produce the book quickly. He marshalls arguments from nature, morality, civil policy, civil and canon law, and the law of God.Tags 1600s -
Lettere d'Isabella Andreini Padouana
Isabella Andreini was the most celebrated commedia dell’arte actor of her time, and with her husband managed and was a member of the celebrated Gelosi theatrical troupe. Andreini was admitted into the Accademia degli Intenti in Pavia, and though she was involved in theater, she still managed to cultivate an image of a virtuous woman. -
Parthenicôn Elisabethae Ioannae Westoniae, virginis nobilissimae, poëtriae florentissimae, linguarum plurimarum peritissimae
Elizabeth Jane Weston wrote more Latin occasional poems than any other English woman. Her family moved to Prague when she was still a child, and when her family fell on hard times, she wrote a series of poems pleading for the restitution of their goods and seeking patronage. Her second book of verse, Parthenicôn, presents an expanded and revised version of those poems. Note the woodcut figure on the title page with its oversized quill pen. -
Amorosa speranza: fauola pastorale
Valeria Miani and Isabella Andreini wrote of love, both erotic and sensual, atypical themes for women writing at this time. Both were in the sphere of the Venetian Court, part of a significant circle of women writers in the latter half of the sixteenth century. Dramatist and poet Miani was the first Italian woman to publish a tragedy. Amorosa speranza’s engraved ornamental title page depicts putti plucking leaves and making crowns of laurel, a tribute to Miani perhaps? This pastoral drama was written to be performed. It is a tale of mistaken identities, a husband lost, a new admirer, and satyrs and sprites. -
La nobiltà et l'eccellenza delle donne, co' diffetti et mancamenti de gli huomini
Venetian intellectual and philosopher Lucrezia Marinella wrote a bold response to Giuseppe Passi’s misogynist Defects of Women (1599). Arguing that women’s moral superiority leads to their intellectual superiority, she demanded freedom, power, and equality for women. In this expanded edition, she traces misogyny in intellectual traditions back to Aristotle and attributes the motives of misogynist writers to a desire to exclude women from public life.
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