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Laura Cereta

Presented by Cayla Andrick & Lilia Eisenstein

For AP European History

All About Her

Location/Nationality

  • Laura Cereta was from Italy
  • She was considered to be one of the best scholars in Bresica, Verona, and Venice

Location/Nationality

Dates

  • Was born in September 1469
  • Was married to Pietro Serina 1484
  • Serina died in 1485
  • Wrote a series of letters between 1485 and 1488
  • She combined the letters into a volume that circulated in manuscript form between 1488 and 1492 among humanists in Brescia, Verona, and Venice.
  • At the age of 30, Cereta died in 1499

Major Works

Her most important works were mostly letters. In the letters she covered topics such as family, marriage, education, and other heavy topics of the days. As she mimicked other Humanist writers, she also became the first feminist writers as she spoke out against ideas against women.

A lot of her work was claimed to be plagerised. People of her time could not belive that a woman would have such good Latin, so they accused her of stealing (Univ. of Chicago Library).

Quote #1

Quote #1

"The free mind, unafraid of labor, presses on to attain the good."

-Laura Cereta, Collection of Letters

Major Beliefs

  • Education (especially higher education)
  • Equality/fair treatment of women
  • Explored HERstory in Europe
  • In many of her letters, she harps on the importance of women not being materalistic and instead invest in their charcater (Encyclopedia.com).

Major Beliefs

Quote #2

Quote #2

“...empty women, who strive for no good but exist to adorn themselves...These women of majestic pride, fantastic coiffures, outlandish ornament, and necks bound with gold or pearls bear the glittering symbols of their captivity to men.”

-Lauara Cereta, Collection of Letters

Nickname

First Fiesty Feminist or Triple F

Nickname

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Threat Level

  • Probable
  • Cereta is unafraid to advocate for women's rights and their right to education
  • This poses a decent threat to the Papacy and a typically patriarchal society
  • However, Cereta is more focused on empowering women than destorying society as they know it

Threat Level

Modern Day Equivalents

  • Malala Yousafzai (women's education)
  • Jessica Valenti (writes/blogs about women's issues)

Modern Day Equivalents

SOURCES

Haraguci, Jennifer. “Cereta, Laura (1469-1499).” Biography: Cereta, Laura, University of Chicago Library, 2003, www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/IWW/BIOS/A0009.html.

“Cereta, Laura.” Encyclopedia of World Biography, Encyclopedia.com, www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/historians-miscellaneous-biographies/laura-cereta.

Cereta, Laura, and Diana Maury. Robin. Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist. The University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Cereta, Laura. “Laura Cereta Letters.” www.sjsu.edu/people/andrew.fleck/courses/Hum1bSpr15/Lecture_22%20Laura%20Cereta.pdf.

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