Works by Marinella

• Marinella, L., 1595, La Colomba sacra, Poema eroico, Venice. (Scholar)
• –––, 1597, Vita del serafico et glorioso San Francesco. Descritto in ottava rima. Ove si spiegano le attioni, le astinenze e i miracoli di esso, Venice. (Scholar)
• –––, 1598, Amore innamorato ed impazzato, Venice. (Scholar)
• –––, 1601a, La nobiltà et l’eccellenza delle donne co’ diffetti et mancamenti de gli uomini. Discorso di Lucrezia Marinella in due parti diviso, Venice. (Scholar)
• –––, 1601b/1999, The Nobility and Excellence of Women, and the Defects and Vices of Men, A. Dunhill (ed. and trans.), Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1602, La vita di Maria vergine imperatrice dell’universo. Descritta in prosa e in ottava rima, Venice. (Scholar)
• –––, 1603, Rime sacre, Venice. (Scholar)
• –––, 1605, L’Arcadia felice, Venice.
• –––, 1605a/1998, L’Arcadia felice, F. Lavocat (ed.), Florence: Accademia toscana di scienze e lettere, ‘La Colombaria’.
• –––, 1605b, Vita del serafico, et glorioso San Francesco. Descritto in ottava rima, Venice. (Scholar)
• –––, 1606, Vita di Santa Giustina in ottava rima, Florence. (Scholar)
• –––, 1617, La imperatrice dell’universo. Poema heroico, Venice. (Scholar)
• –––, 1617a, La vita di Maria Vergine imperatrice dell’universo, Venice. (Scholar)
• –––, 1617b, Vite de’ dodeci heroi di Christo, et de’ Quatro Evangelisti, Venice. (Scholar)
• –––, 1624, De’ gesti heroici e della vita meravigliosa della serafica Santa Caterina da Siena, Venice. (Scholar)
• –––, 1635, L’Enrico ovvero Bisanzio acquistato. Poema heroico, Venice.
• –––, 1645, Essortationi alle donne et a gli altri se a loro saranno a grado di Lucretia Marinella. Parte Prima, Venice. (Scholar)
• –––, 1645b/2012, Exhortations to Women and to Others if They Please, L. Benedetti (ed. and trans.), Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies. (Scholar)

Other Primary Sources

• Agrippa, H. C., 1529, Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex, A. Rabil, Jr. (ed. and trans.), Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1996. (Scholar)
• Castiglione, B., 1528, The Book of the Courtier, C. S. Singleton (trans.), New York: Doubleday, 1959. (Scholar)
• Dante, A., 2018, Convivio: A Dual-Language Critical Edition, A. Frisardi (ed. and trans.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Domenichi, L., 1549, La nobiltà delle donne, Venice. (Scholar)
• Passi, G., 1599, I donneschi diffetti nuovamente formati e posti in luce da Giuseppe Passi Ravenate nell’Academia de’ Signori Informi di Ravenna L’Ardito, Milan. (Scholar)
• Pizan, C. de, 1405, The Book of the City of Ladies, E. J. Richards (trans.), New York: Persea Books, 1982. (Scholar)

Secondary Literature

• Adamson, P., 2023, “The Reception of Plato on Women: Proclus, Averroes, Marinella,” in Ancient Women Philosophers: Recovered Ideas and New Perspectives, K. R. O’Reilly and C. Pellò (eds.), pp. 228–246, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Allen, P. and Salvatore, F., 1992, “Lucrezia Marinella and Woman’s Identity in Late Italian Renaissance,” Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme, 16(4): 5–39. (Scholar)
• Angenot, M., 1977, Les Champions Des Femmes: Examen Du Discours Sur La Supériorité Des Femmes, 1400–1800, Montréal: Presses de l’Université du Québec. (Scholar)
• Ball, P., 2023, “Beauty, Gender, and Power from Marinelli to Wollstonecraft,” in The Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy, K. Detlefsen and L. Shapiro (eds.), pp. 350–360, New York & London: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Benedetti, L., 2008, “Le Essortationi di Lucrezia Marinella : l’ultimo messaggio di una misteriosa Veneziana,” Italica, 85(4): 381–395. (Scholar)
• –––, 2014, “Arcangela Tarabotti e Lucrezia Marinella : appunti per un dialogo mancato,” Modern Language Notes, 129(3S): 87–97. (Scholar)
• Benson, P. J., 1992, The Invention of the Renaissance Woman: The Challenge of Female Independence in the Literature and Thought of Italy and England, University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press. (Scholar)
• Chemello, A., 1983, “La donna, il modello, l’immaginario: Moderata Fonte e Lucrezia Marinella,” in Nel cherchio della luna: Figure di donna in alcuni testi del XVI secolo, Venice: Marsilio. (Scholar)
• –––, 1991, “Lucrezia Marinella,” in Le stanze ritrovate: Antologia di scrittrici venete dal quattrocento al novecento, A. Arslan, A. Chemello, and G. Pizzamiglio (eds.), pp. 95–108, Milan: Eidos. (Scholar)
• –––, 2000, “The rhetoric of eulogy in Marinella’s La nobiltà e l’eccelenza delle donne,” in Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society, L. Panniza (ed.), pp. 463–477, London: Legenda. (Scholar)
• Cott, N., 1989, “What’s in a Name? The Limits of ‘Social Feminism:’ or, Expanding the Vocabulary of Women’s History,” The Journal of American History 76:3, 809–29. (Scholar)
• Cox, V., 1995, “The Single Self: Feminist Thought and the Marriage Market in Early Modern Venice,” Renaissance Quarterly, 48(3): 513–581. (Scholar)
• –––, 1997, (ed. and trans.), Moderata Fonte (Modesta Pozzo): The Worth of Women, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• –––, 2008, Women’s Writing in Italy, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2011, The Prodigious Muse: Women’s Writing in Counter-Reformation Italy, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. (Scholar)
• Daenens, F., 1983, “Superiore perché inferior: il paradosso della superiorità in alcuni trattati italiani del Cinquecento,” in Trasgressione tragica e norma domestica, V. Gentili (ed.), pp. 11–50, Roma: Edizioni di storia e letteratura. (Scholar)
• Del Soldato, E., 2020, Early Modern Aristotle: On the Making and Unmaking of Authority, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. (Scholar)
• Deslauriers, M., 2017, “Marinella and Her Interlocutors: Hot Blood, Hot Words, Hot Deeds,” Philosophical Studies, 174(10): 2525–2537, doi:10.1007/s11098-016-0730-3. (Scholar)
• –––, 2019, “The Conceptualization of Masculine Authority as Unjust: Tyranny in 17th Century Venice,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 27(4), Special Issue: Women in the History of Philosophy, S. Hutton and R. Hagengruber (eds.), 718–737. (Scholar)
• –––, 2021, “The Superiority of Seventeenth Century Women,” Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 8(1): 1–19, doi:10.1017/apa.2019.24. (Scholar)
• Dialeti, A., 2013, “A Woman Defending Women: Breaking with Tradition in Lucrezia Marinella’s Le [sic] nobiltà, et eccellenze delle donne,” in A Portrait of a Renaissance Feminist : Lucrezia Marinella’s Life and Works, A. Cagnolati (ed.), Roma: Aracne, pp. 67–104. (Scholar)
• Ferguson, M. W., Quilligan, M., and Vickers, N. J., 1986, Rewriting the Renaissance: The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• Gottlieb, B., 1997, “The Problem of Feminism in the Fifteenth Century” in The Selected Writings of Christine de Pizan, R. Blumenfield-Kosinski (ed.), New York: W.W. Norton & Co. (Scholar)
• Haskins, S., 2006, “Vexatious Litigant, or the Case of Lucrezia Marinella? New Documents Concerning her Life (Part I),” Nouvelles de la République des Lettres, 1:80–128. (Scholar)
• –––, 2007, “Vexatious Litigant, or the Case of Lucrezia Marinella? New Documents Concerning her Life (Part II),” Nouvelles de la République des Lettres, 1–2:203–230. (Scholar)
• –––, 2013, “A Portrait,” in A Portrait of a Renaissance Feminist: Lucrezia Marinella’s Life and Works, A. Cagnolati (ed.), Roma: Aracne, pp. 11–40. (Scholar)
• Jordan, C., 1990, Renaissance Feminism: Literary Texts and Political Models, Ithaca: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
• Jouanna, J., 2012, Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen: Selected Papers, P. van der Eijk (ed.), N. Allies (trans.), Leiden: Brill. (Scholar)
• Kelly, J., 1982, “Early Feminist Theory and the ‘Querelle des Femmes,’ 1400–1789”, Signs, 8(1): 4–28. (Scholar)
• –––, 1984, Women, History and Theory: The Essays of Joan Kelly, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• King, M. L., 1976, “Six Learned Women of the Italian Renaissance,” Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 59(3): 280–304. (Scholar)
• –––, 1980, “Book-Lined Cells: Women and Humanism in the Early Italian Renaissance,” in Beyond Their Sex: Learned Women of the European Past, P. H. Labalme (ed.), pp. 66–90, New York: New York University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1991, Women of the Renaissance, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• Kolsky, S., 2001, “Moderata Fonte, Lucrezia Marinella, Guiseppe Passi: An Early Seventeenth-Century Feminist controversy,” The Modern Language Review, 96(4): 973–989. (Scholar)
• –––, 2006, “The literary career of Lucrezia Marinella (1571–1653),” in Rituals, images, and words: varieties of cultural expression in late medieval and early modern Europe, F.W. Kent and C. Zika (eds.), pp. 325–342, Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols. (Scholar)
• Kraye, J., 1994, “The Transformation of Plato in the Renaissance,” in Platonism and the English Imagination, A. Baldwin and S. Hutton (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Maclean, I., 1977, Woman Triumphant: Feminism in French Literature, 1610–1652, Oxford: Clarendon. (Scholar)
• ––– 1980, The Renaissance Notion of Woman: A Study in the Fortunes of Scholasticism and Medical Science in European Intellectual Life, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Malpezzi Price, P. and Ristaino, C., 2008, Lucrezia Marinella and the “Querelle des Femmes” in Seventeenth-Century Italy, Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. (Scholar)
• Offen, K., 1988, “Defining Feminism: A Comparative Historical Approach,” Signs 14:1, 119–57. (Scholar)
• O’Neill, E., 2007, “Justifying the Inclusion of Women in our Histories of Philosophy: The Case of Marie de Gournay,” in The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy, L. M. Alcoff and E. F. Kittay (eds.), Oxford: Blackwell. (Scholar)
• Panizza, L. and Wood, S., 2000, A History of Women’s Writing in Italy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Panizza, L., 2011, “Platonic Love On The Rocks: Castiglione Counter-Currents In Renaissance Italy,” in Laus Platonici Philosophi, pp. 199–226, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. (Scholar)
• Pellegrin, M.-F., 2013, “La ‘Querelle des femmes’ est-elle une querelle ? Philosophie et pseudo-linéarite dans l’histoire du féminisme,” Seventeenth-Century French Studies 35 :1, 69–79. (Scholar)
• Piana, M., 2018, “Divinae Pulchritudinis Imago: The Neoplatonic Construction of Female Identity in Lucrezia Marinella’s La Nobiltà et L’Eccellenza Delle Donne (1601)”, in Genealogie. Re-Writing the Canon: Women Writing in XVI–XVII Century Italy, S. Santosuosso (ed.), pp. 199–221, Seville: Arcibel Editores. (Scholar)
• Ray, M. K., 2015, Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Ross, S. G., 2009, The Birth of Feminism: Woman as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and England, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Shapiro, L., 2013, “The Outward and Inward Beauty of Early Modern Women,” Revue Philosophique de la France et de l’Étranger, 203(3): 327–346. (Scholar)
• Sinclair, A., 2017, “Latin in Lucrezia Marinella’s Essortationi alle donne (1645): Subverting the Voice of Authority,” in City, Court, Academy: Language Choice in Early Modern Italy, E. Del Soldato and A. Rizzi (eds.), pp. 117–134, London: Routledge. (Scholar)
• –––, 2019, “Insinuatio in Lucrezia Marinella’s Essortationi alle donne (1645): Exhorting Marital Harmony and Insinutating Feminist Critique,” Renaissance Studies, 34(3): 430–446. (Scholar)
• Zancan, M. (ed.), 1983, Nel cerchio della luna: Figure di donna in alcuni testi del XVI secolo, Venice: Marsilio. (Scholar)