Bartolomeo Goggio (also known Goggi, Gogio, and Gogo) was an Italian author and notary. He was born in Ferrara circa 1430 and died sometime after 1493.[1] He is most recognized for De laudibus mulierum [On the Merits of Women], written in the late 1480s,[2] which was dedicated to Eleanor of Naples, Duchess of Ferrara.[3] Only one surviving manuscript of De laudibus mulierum, currently held at the British Library, is known to exist.[4] For this work, Goggio is recognized as a contributor to the pro-woman side of the querelle des femmes — "a debate about the nature and worth of women that unfolded in Europe from the medieval to the early modern period." In De laudibus mulierum Goggio argues the superiority of women.[3] After Eleanor's death, Goggio wrote another philosophical work, De nobilitate humani animi opus.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Bartolomeo Goggio | Querelle". Retrieved 2019-01-20.
  2. ↑ Konrad Eisenbichler (5 July 2017). The Cultural World of Eleonora di Toledo: Duchess of Florence and Siena. Taylor & Francis. pp. 126–. ISBN 978-1-351-54517-4.
  3. 1 2 Jacqueline Broad; Karen Green (22 January 2009). A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1400-1700. Cambridge University Press. pp. 56–. ISBN 978-0-521-88817-2.
  4. 1 2 Gundersheimer, Werner L. (1980). "Bartolommeo Goggio: A Feminist in Renaissance Ferrara". Renaissance Quarterly. 33 (2): 175–200. doi:10.2307/2861116. JSTOR 2861116. S2CID 163600495.
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