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Author(s):	Moderata Fonte

Date:	2024	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	022655063X
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You would as well look for blood in a corpse as for the least shred of decency in a man . . .
 
Without help from their wives, men are just like unlit lamps . . .
 
Just think of them as an unreliable clock that tells you its ten oclock when its in fact barely two . . .
 
A man without a woman is like a fly without a head . . .
 
These are but a small selection of the quips bandied about at this lively gathering of women. The broad topic at hand is the relative pros and cons of men, and the cases in point range from pick-up artists to locker-room talk, and from double standards to fragile masculinity.

Yet this dialogue unfolds not among ironically misandrist millenials venting at their local dive bar, but rather among sixteenth-century womenvariously married, widowed, single, and betrothedattending a respectable Venice garden party. Written in the early 1590s by Moderata Fonte, pseudonym of the Renaissance poet and writer Modesta Pozzo, this literary dialogue interrogates men and mens treatment of women, and explores by contrast the virtues of singledom and female friendship. As the women diverge from their themediscussing everything from astrology to the curative powers of plants and mineralsa remarkable group portrait of wisdom, wit, and erudition emerges.

A new introduction by translator Virginia Cox and foreword by Dacia Maraini situate
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