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Laura Cereta

Evie Dotson

Letter to Bibulus Sempronius

"I would have been silent, believe me, if that savage old enmity of yours had attacked me alone. For the light of Phobus cannot be befouled. Even in the mud [Phobus Apollo, i.e., The Sun]. But I cannot tolerate your having attacked my entire sex. For this reason my thirsty should seek revenge, my sleeping pen is aroused to literary struggle, raging anger stirs mental passions long chained by silence".

List of Works

  • Critical Edition of the Unpublished Materials in the Cereta Corpus.
  • Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist
  • Letter to Augustinus Aemilius, Curse against the Ornamentation of Women
  • Letter to Bibulus Sempronius: Defense of the Liberal Instruction of Women

The early Feminist

Overview

Themes in her writing

  • Women should be educated
  • Against women being slaves in marriage
  • Wrote of an ideal marriage
  • Mutual honor
  • Respect
  • Honesty
  • Love
  • Communication
  • September 1469-1499
  • Humanist and Feminist writer
  • Brescia, Italy
  • Began school at age 7
  • Married at 15 for 18 months
  • After husbands death, she wrote more
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