Estellina Conat

Estellina Conat (fl. 1474–1477) was an Italian-Jewish printer. She was the first woman active as a printer.[1][2][3]

Estellina Conat lived in Mantua, Italy, during the second half of the 15th century. She was married to the Jewish physician Abraham Conat of Mantua and Ferrara, who founded the first Jewish printing press in 1475.[4] Estellina played an active and significant role in the printing house. She is explicitly credited in the colophon of the book Beḥinat Olam (a philosophical poem by Jedaiah Bedersi), where she refers to herself as the kotevet (scribe or editor):

I, Estellina, the wife of my lord and husband, the honourable teacher master Abraham Conat (may he see offspring and length of days, amen), wrote this Epistle on the Examination of the World with the assistance of the young man Jacob Levi from Tarascon in Provence, long may he live, amen.[5]

She was active in the family printing press business independently of her spouse.[6]

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References

  1. ^ Estellina Conat. Oxford Reference. Retrieved 15 Mar. 2021, from https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095630272.
  2. ^ Bellavitis, Anna (2018), Bellavitis, Anna (ed.), "Printed Tracks", Women’s Work and Rights in Early Modern Urban Europe, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 209–218, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-96541-3_15, ISBN 978-3-319-96541-3, retrieved 2024-01-20
  3. ^ Parker, Deborah (October 1996). "Women in the Book Trade in Italy, 1475-1620*". Renaissance Quarterly. 49 (3): 509–541. doi:10.2307/2863365. ISSN 0034-4338. JSTOR 2863365. S2CID 164039060.
  4. ^ Adelman, Howard (1999). "The Literacy of Jewish Women in Early Modern Italy". In Whitehead, Barbara (ed.). Women's Education in Early Modern Europe. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203905067. ISBN 978-0-203-90506-7. Retrieved 2024-01-20.
  5. ^ "I, Estellina: Jewish women and early printing". blogs.bl.uk. Retrieved 2025-07-01.
  6. ^ Wolfthal, Diane (2004-01-01), "Representing Diversity within the Community: The Absence of Rabbis and the Presence of Women", Picturing Yiddish, BRILL, pp. 63–84, doi:10.1163/9789047405580_008, ISBN 978-90-474-0558-0, S2CID 244758109, retrieved 2024-01-20

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