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NOTES introduction 1. See the list in Cox 2008, 248–52, to which should be added Pigafetta 1586a, 1586b; B. Gatti 1604; and Marinella 1606a. 2. See ch. 1, n. 19. 3. Dionisotti 1999, 237–39. For a discussion of Dionisotti’s thesis and its influence , see Cox 2008, xx–xxi. 4. Key early studies are Conti Odorisio 1979; and Chemello 1983. Throughout this study, I refer to Marinella’s treatise by the title of the revised, 1601 edition, which is that by which it is best known. The title of the 1600 edition has nobiltà and eccellenze in the plural. 5. I suggest here an amendment of Marinella’s birthdate from the usually cited 1571, which is based on a parish record giving her age at the time of her death in 1653 as 82 (Haskins 2006, 84). Evidence arguing for a birthdate of 1579 includes the 1601 portrait reproduced in Colonna, Marinella, and Matraini 2008, 121, fig. 6, which identifies her as 22 at the time of portrayal; Ribera 1609, 330, seemingly written between 1605 and 1607, which describes her as 27 at the time of writing; and the publisher’s preface to Marinella 1643, which speaks of her having published La Colomba sacra (1595) at age 15 or 16. Less precise but still suggestive is the fact that the dedicatory letter to Marinella 1602 ascribes the author’s literary ambition to ‘‘the audacity that boils within youthful hearts’’ (l’audacia, che bolle ne’ cuori giovani), a claim that, as Laura Benedetti notes, would have read as odd for an author in her thirty-second year (Benedetti 2008, 393n12). While it is conceivable that the conflicting evidence reflects a consistent attempt on Marinella’s part to misrepresent her age in order to present herself as a prodigy (Haskins 2006, 83n7), the possibility should also be countenanced that the 1653 death record is erroneous. The redating suggested here would have the advantage of placing Marinella’s age at her 1607 marriage as 27 or 28—late by the standards of the age but not completely anomalous—rather than the improbably late 36. If the 1579 date is accepted, it increases the likelihood that Curzio Marinelli should be considered Lucrezia’s half-brother, rather her full brother, given his distance from her in age: his first published work dates from 1580, which would place his date of birth in the early 1560s at the latest. 272 Notes to Pages xiii–xvii 6. The biobibliographical section of Panizza and Wood 2000 has entries for Andreini , Campiglia, Fonte, Marinella, and Sarrocchi. 7. L’Arrotato Accademico Ra√rontato, in Sarrocchi 1606, a2v: ‘‘opera certo delle maggiori che possa produrre giamai intelletto humano.’’ 8. See ch. 6 at n. 129. 9. On these developments, see Cox 2008, 166–227. 10. A selection of Grillo’s religious verse is available in Durante and Martellotti 1989b, 335–438. On a projected complete edition of the 1629 edition of his Pietosi a√etti, see Morando 2009, 51n8. The two dates given for Tansillo’s poem are those of its first, partial publication and the publication of its first complete version (on the text’s complete publishing history, see ch. 1, n. 205). Subsequent instances of two publication dates separated by a slash indicate texts published in two di√erent versions. 11. Brand and Pertile 1999, 258, 305. 12. Quondam 2005a, 127. 13. For citations of recent criticism in this area, see ch. 1, nn. 175, 191, 193, 208–9. 14. The series, edited by Alberti Rabil and Margaret King, has now transferred to the Center for Renaissance and Reformation Studies in Toronto. The volumes published so far are Fonte 1997, 2006; Marinella 1999, 2008, 2009; Campiglia 2004; Sarrocchi 2006; Matraini 2008; Copio 2009; and Miani 2010. Battiferra 2006 and Matraini 2007 also contain quite substantial amounts of material written during this period. The two volumes in progress are editions of Barbara Torelli’s Partenia (by Barbara Burgess-Van Aken and Lisa Sampson) and Lucrezia Marinella’s Arcadia felice (by Letizia Panizza). An edition of a 1585 ‘‘defense of women’’ by Maria Gondola is also forthcoming in a volume of Italophone writings by sixteenth-century Dalmatian women (by Francesca Gabrielli). Other works by women from this period available in modern editions are Campiglia 1996; Marinella 1997a, 1997b, 1998; I. Andreini 1995/2002, 2005; Turina 2005, 2009; and Fonte 2009. See also Marinella 2007. 15. A rare recent study of religious writings by Italian women...
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