Tarabotti fra storia e storiografia: miti, fatti e alcune questioni più generali

Medioli, F. (2012) Tarabotti fra storia e storiografia: miti, fatti e alcune questioni più generali. Studi veneziani, LXVI. ISSN 1724-1790

Abstract/Summary

This article presents the state of the arts about suor Arcangela Tarabotti, once "little less than a foot-note" well-known to scholars only (even if by Benedetto Croce, the most important of all XXth century Italian historians) and nowadays a literary case and a well-recognised proto-feminist, whose works are now all translated into English. The article examins the fortune (or misfortune) she enjoyed over the centuries, the reasons of her current international success, her life according to real documents and to her more fantasist accounts, the archives research and recent publications on her. It also explores the theoretical issues currently in place within Italian women's studies, moving from the 1970s' emphasis on witches, to the 1980s' passion for women saints, and the current obsession with queens and "winners", in order to prove that Arcangela Tarabotti was someonw unique who paid an enormous price for her bravery and outspokness, having been cloistered without a religious vocation.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/28074
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > Early Modern Research Centre (EMRC)
Publisher	Fabrizio Serra editore, Pisa · Roma
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