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Paternal Tyranny (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe) (1st Edition) by Arcangela Tarabotti, Letizia Panizza (Translator) Paperback, 211 Pages, Published 2004 ISBN-10: 0-226-78966-7 / 0226789667 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-78966-8 / 9780226789668 Sharp-witted and sharp-tongued, Arcangela Tarabotti (1604-52) yearned to be formally educated and enjoy an independent life in Venetian literary circles. But instead, at sixteen, her father forced her into a Benedictine convent. To protest her confinement, Tarabotti composed polemical works exposing |