The debate about women and its socio-cultural background in early modern Venice
This Thesis deals with the development of the debate about women, also known in the European context as querelle des femmes, in Italy, from the 1540s to the mid-seventeenth century. The research is based on the contemporary Italian literature and correspondence. The Thesis' prime focus is Venice, as the main printing and intellectual centre where the debate was formulated and disseminated throughout Italy, especially during the first half of the sixteenth century. However, it also treats the shaping of the debate at the Courts of Central and Northern Italy. The main object of the Thesis is to detect the socio-cultural context of the debate. So, it examines the significance of the emerging printing industry for the development and propagation of the debate, the social and literary networks of its agents, the reading public for which it was meant, and the role of the patronage system in the production of such writings. Special emphasis is also given to the part women's greater participation in intellectual life played in the shaping of the debate about them - as readers, writers, participants in contemporary discussions, members of Academies, salon keepers and dedicatees. Furthermore, the Thesis underlines the
Dialeti, Androniki
The debate about women and its socio-cultural background in early modern Venice. This Thesis deals with the development of the debate about women, also known in the European context as querelle des femmes, in Italy, from the 1540s to the mid-seventeenth century. The research is based on the contemporary Italian literature and correspondence. The Thesis' prime focus is Venice, as the main printing and intellectual centre where the debate was formulated and disseminated throughout Italy, especially during the first half of the sixteenth century. However, it also treats the shaping of the debate at the Courts of Central and Northern Italy. The main object of the Thesis is to detect the socio-cultural context of the debate. So, it examines the significance of the emerging printing industry for the development and propagation of the debate, the social and literary networks of its agents, the reading public for which it was meant, and the role of the patronage system in the production of such writings. Special emphasis is also given to the part women's greater participation in intellectual life played in the shaping of the debate about them - as readers, writers, participants in contemporary discussions, members of Academies, salon keepers and dedicatees. Furthermore, the Thesis underlines the
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