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Moderata fonte biography of williams
Moderata Fonte
Venetian writer and poet (1555–1592)
Moderata Fonte, directly translating to Modest Well,[3] is a pseudonym of Modesta di Pozzo di Forzi (or Zorzi), also known as Modesto Pozzo (or Modesta, feminization of Modesto),[4] (1555–1592) a Venetian writer and poet.[5] Besides the posthumously-published dialogues, Giustizia delle donne and Il merito delle donne (gathered in The Worth of Women, 1600), for which she is best known, she wrote a romance and religious poetry.
Details of her life are known from the biography by Giovanni Niccolò Doglioni (1548-1629), her uncle, included as a preface to the dialogue.[6]
Life and history
Pozzo's parents, Girolamo da Pozzo and Marietta da Pozzo (née dal Moro),[7] died of the plague in 1556, when she was just a year old, and she and her older brother Leonardo were placed in the care of their maternal grandmother and her second husband.
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