Moderata Fonte
Moderata Fonte, directly translating to Modest Well, is a pseudonym of
Modesta di Pozzo di Forzi (or
Zorzi), also known as
Modesto Pozzo (or
Modesta, feminization of Modesto), (1555–1592) a
Venetian writer and poet. 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.
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