Bartolomeo Goggio
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Bartolomeo Goggio (Italian pronunciation: [bartoloˈmɛːo ˈɡɔddʒo]; also Bartolommeo for the given name and Goggi, Gogio or Gogo for the surname; c. 1430 in Ferrara – after 1493)[1] was an Italian writer and notary.
He is most recognized for De laudibus mulierum [On the Merits of Women], written in the late 1480s,[2] which was dedicated to Eleanor of Naples, Duchess of Ferrara.[3] Only one surviving manuscript of the work, held at the British Library, is known to exist.[4] For De laudibus mulierum, Goggio is recognized as a contributor to the "pro-woman" side of the querelle des femmes – "a debate about the nature and worth of women that unfolded in Europe from the medieval to the early modern period"; in it, he argues for the superiority of women.[3] After Eleanor's death in 1493, Goggio wrote another philosophical work, De nobilitate humani animi opus [A Work on the Nobility of the Human Mind].[4]
