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Voices from the margin. Italian Renaissance paratexts and women’s knowledge production
| Title: | Voices from the margin. Italian Renaissance paratexts and women’s knowledge production |
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| Authors: | Jelena Bakic |
| Source: | Galilæana, Vol 22, Iss 2 (2025) |
| Publisher Information: | Museo Galileo, 2025. |
| Publication Year: | 2025 |
| Collection: | LCC:Auxiliary sciences of history |
| Subject Terms: | natural philosophy, querelle des femmes, paratexts, Renaissance Italy, women authors, Auxiliary sciences of history |
| Description: | This article investigates the role of Renaissance paratextual sources – particularly dedicatory epistles authored by women – as a key space for understanding female contributions to knowledge production in the early modern period. Focusing on Italian works from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, it analyses how female authors, within contexts such as the querelle des femmes, epistolary practices, scientific dialogues, and poetry, used these marginal spaces to negotiate gender roles, claim authority, and position themselves within the circulation of knowledge. Approaching these texts through the lens of privacy studies and the history of emotions, and applying a slow close-reading methodology, the article reveals how dedicatory epistles served both as self-defense and as a declaration of intellectual agency in the Italian Renaissance. |
| Document Type: | article |
| File Description: | electronic resource |
| Language: | English Italian |
| ISSN: | 1825-3903 |
| Relation: | https://gal-studies.museogalileo.it/index.php/galilaeana/article/view/87; https://doaj.org/toc/1825-3903 |
| DOI: | 10.57617/gal-87 |
| Access URL: | https://doaj.org/article/a1189e71e6244f91a81669b4ac20ff5d |
| Accession Number: | edsdoj.1189e71e6244f91a81669b4ac20ff5d |
| Database: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
| ISSN: | 18253903 |
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| DOI: | 10.57617/gal-87 |