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Moderata Fonte

1555 - 1592

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Moderata Fonte, directly translating to Modest Well, is a pseudonym of Modesta di Pozzo di Forzi (or Zorzi), also known as Modesto Pozzo (or Modesta, feminization of Modesto), (1555–1592) a Venetian writer and poet. Besides the posthumously-published dialogues, Giustizia delle donne and Il merito delle donne (gathered in The Worth of Women, 1600), for which she is best known, she wrote a romance and religious poetry. Details of her life are known from the biography by Giovanni Niccolò Doglioni (1548-1629), her uncle, included as a preface to the dialogue. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Moderata Fonte is the 2,931st most popular writer (down from 2,804th in 2019), the 2,648th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,610th in 2019) and the 177th most popular Italian Writer.

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Among writers, Moderata Fonte ranks 2,931 out of 7,302. Before her are Zofia Posmysz, Kató Lomb, Bernardo Guimarães, Maryana Marrash, T. H. White, and Marie Marvingt. After her are Sebastian Franck, Saigyō, Gottschalk of Orbais, Joe Hill, Antonio de Guevara, and Subramania Bharati.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1555, Moderata Fonte ranks 17. Before her are Dong Qichang, Giovanni Antonio Magini, Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon, Charles II, Lord of Monaco, Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, and Antonio Tempesta.  Among people deceased in 1592, Moderata Fonte ranks 20. Before her are William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, Ana de Mendoza, Princess of Eboli, John VII, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, John Casimir of the Palatinate-Simmern, Michiel Coxie, and Marc'Antonio Ingegneri. After her are Sibylle of Saxony, Dorothea Susanne of Simmern, Girolamo Cassar, Alessandro Striggio, Dirck Barendsz, and Robert Greene.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Moderata Fonte ranks 2,648 out of 5,161. Before her are Alvise Pisani (1664), Vittoria Aleotti (1575), Daniele De Rossi (1983), Laura Martinozzi (1639), Fiorenzo Magni (1920), and Giovanni Canestri (1918). After her are Vasco Rossi (1952), Francesco Granacci (1469), Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (1926), Riccardo Morandi (1902), Leopoldo Trieste (1917), and Mario Corso (1941).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Moderata Fonte ranks 177. Before her are Elio Vittorini (1908), Tullia d'Aragona (1510), Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893), Massimo Bontempelli (1878), Apostolo Zeno (1668), and Gasparo Contarini (1483). After her are Lucrezia Marinella (1571), Salimbene di Adam (1221), Félix Fénéon (1861), Titus Burckhardt (1908), Silvio Pellico (1789), and Alda Merini (1931).

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