WOMEN: WRITERS IN ITALIAN RENASCENCE

Abstract

Returning from a period of studies carried out in Italy thanks to the selection by the PRINT, a Capes programme aimed at developing strategic internationalisation plans as a way of improving the quality of Brazilian postgraduate courses, so as to give greater prominence to scientific and academic research carried out in Brazil, we present the result of our latest research on Italian Renaissance Women's Literature. In addition to being able to carry out an expressive bibliographical update, we have had access to archives and libraries containing unpublished material, enabling us to deepen our studies on the work of important female intellectuals of the Renaissance (and further). In this Communication, we will present some of these protagonists of one of the richest seasons of Italian and world culture, the Renaissance, such as St. Catherine of Siena, Lucrezia Tornabuoni, Antonia Giannotta, Isabella di Morra, Gaspara Stampa, Veronica Franco, Veronica Gambara, Vittoria Colonna, Tullia d'Aragona, Isabella Andreini, and others.