Arcangela Tarabotti, Venetian nun and feminist (died 1652)

Arcangela Tarabotti

Venetian nun and writer (1604–1652)

Arcangela Tarabotti was a Venetian nun and Early Modern Italian writer. Tarabotti wrote texts and corresponded with cultural and political figures for most of her adult life, centering on the issues of forced enclosure, and what she saw as other symptoms and systems of…