The Saber and Scroll Journal Volume 8, Number 2, Winter 2019 | Page 36

The Aristotelian Philosophi
The Effect on Isotta Nog
本文还将伊索塔的生活与希尔娜 · 德 · 皮桑的生活进行比较意大利文艺复兴期间成功撰写了
关键词 : 伊索塔 · 诺加罗拉 (I
文艺复兴 , 威尼斯 , 亚里士多德
Feminist historians herald Isotta
Nogarola (1418–1466) as the first
female humanist of the Italian
Renaissance due to her vast epistolary
exchange with prominent male humanists
and claim her as the most learned
female of the Italian Renaissance. 1
While some learned women in quattrocento
Italy participated in Renaissance
humanism by circulating their
writings, which demonstrated they had
a thorough knowledge of classical authors
and their philosophies, the journey
was not an easy one for those who
wanted to study humanism as a career,
remain unmarried, and live under Venetian
rule; they had to contend with
the dominant Aristotelian gender ideal
that they be silent and submissive as
wives and mothers or enter conventual
life as a nun. Although Isotta enjoyed
early success as a humanist scholar in
Verona and Venice, she suddenly abandoned
her secular humanist career for
a life devoted to God in 1441, primarily
because Venice’s Aristotelian conservative
assessment of women pressured
her to accept its dominant gender ideals,
but also because, as a holy woman,
combining her humanist views with
Biblical wisdom was the only socially
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