Antisatire – In Defense of Women, against Francesco Buoninsegni
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Elissa B. Weaver is Professor Emerita of Italian at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Convent Theatre in Early Modern Italy: Spiritual Fun and Learning for Women (2002) and of numerous other works on Italian medieval and Renaissance literature. She edited the Italian edition of the Buoninsegni, Tarabotti, Satira e Antisatira (1998) and is co-editor of the Italian Women Writers online database at the University of Chicago Library.With this edition by Elissa Weaver, internationally acclaimed as a distinguished scholar of early modern Italian women’s writing, Arcangela Tarabotti’s lively, polemical <i>Antisatire</i> (1644) joins several other translations of her works in the Other Voice series. It is published alongside the satire that provoked it, a witty reprise of the traditional moralizing discourse on feminine vanity by the Sienese poet and academician Francesco Buonsinsegni. Weaver’s Introduction locates the dispute with Buoninsegni within Tarabotti’s trajectory as a writer, and traces the <i>Antisatire</i>’s complex reception history, and the circumstances of its composition. The editorial apparatus is excellent, and the translation of the two texts is fluent, clear, accurate, and historically sensitive.<br /><br /> —Virginia Cox, Department of Italian Studies, New York University
"With this edition by Elissa Weaver, internationally acclaimed as a distinguished scholar of early modern Italian women’s writing, Arcangela Tarabotti’s lively, polemical <i>Antisatire</i> (1644) joins several other translations of her works in the Other Voice series. It is published alongside the satire that provoked it, a witty reprise of the traditional moralizing discourse on feminine vanity by the Sienese poet and academician Francesco Buoninsegni. Weaver’s Introduction locates the dispute with Buoninsegni within Tarabotti’s trajectory as a writer, and traces the <i>Antisatire’s</i> complex reception history, and the circumstances of its composition. The editorial apparatus is excellent, and the translation of the two texts is fluent, clear, accurate, and historically sensitive."
- Virginia Cox, New York University,
The Other Voice in Early Modern Women: The Toronto Series volume 70
Illustrations xv
Introduction 1
Note on the Text and Translation 29
Satire and Antisatire: Dedications and Printer’s Note 31
Francesco Buoninsegni, Against the Vanities of Women, a Menippean Satire 37
Arcangela Tarabotti, Antisatire, In Response 55
Bibliography 95
Index 103