Bartolomeo Goggio

Not to be confused with Bartolomeo Gosio.

Bartolomeo Goggio (Italian pronunciation: [bartoloˈmɛːo ˈɡɔddʒo]; also Bartolommeo for the given name and Goggi, Gogio or Gogo for the surname; c. 1430 in Ferrara – after 1493)[1] was an Italian writer and notary.

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 the work, held at the British Library, is known to exist.[4] For De laudibus mulierum, 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 it, he argues for the superiority of women.[3] After Eleanor's death in 1493, Goggio wrote another philosophical work, De nobilitate humani animi opus [A Work on the Nobility of the Human Mind].[4]

References

  1. ^ "Bartolomeo Goggio". Querelle. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
  2. ^ Konrad Eisenbichler (2017). The Cultural World of Eleonora di Toledo: Duchess of Florence and Siena. Taylor & Francis. pp. 126–. ISBN 978-1-351-54517-4 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ a b Jacqueline Broad; Karen Green (2009). A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1400-1700. Cambridge University Press. pp. 56–. ISBN 978-0-521-88817-2 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ a b 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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