A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Pozzo, (Modesta)
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POZZO (MODESTA), called FONTE MODERATA, a celebrated Venetian Lady; born 1555.
She is the author of a poem, intituled Il Floridoro, and another on the Passion and Resurrection of Christ. She also published a book in prose, De Meriti della Donna, in which she maintains that the female sex are not inferior in understanding and merit to the male. This book upon The Merit of Women was printed immediately after her death, and Father Ribeira has made a eulogium upon her, in his Theatre of Learned Women. This lady is said to have had such a surprising memory, that after hearing a sermon, she could repeat it word for word. She was married to an advocate at Venice, named Philip Zonzi, and died 1592. Nicholas Doglioni has written her life.
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