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Androgyny in Moderata Fonte’s Tredici canti del Floridoro
Moderata Fonte, who is one of the earliest female authors to write chivalric romance in Italy, participates in the debateon women [querelle des femmes] with Il merito delle donne (1600). Tredici canti del Floridoro (1581), in which shedefends the worth of wom…