Religious Authority and Classical Reception. Martha Marchina’s Musa Posthuma and Baroque epistemologies.
DOI
10.1515/9781399512077-017
Abstract
T he difficult question of what women writing Latin looks like is richly answered in early modern Italian states. Where in the classical period we have a profound scarcity of texts, and turn to Perpetua’s passio and Egeria’s Peregrinatioin late antiquity to find full books (likely) written by a woman, Martha Marchina’s (1600–1646) posthumous book of poetry and correspondence, Musa Posthuma(1662), finds surer footing. What is apparent from her contemporaries, from her editor and in her own published correspondence is that Martha Marchina was internationally lauded in her time as an exemplary Latin poet, for her piety and for her status as a working-class educated Roman woman.
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2023
Publisher Statement
© 2023, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh
Recommended Citation
Damer, Erika Zimmerman, 2023. “Religious Authority and Classical Reception. Martha Marchina’s Musa Posthuma and Baroque epistemologies.” Ch. 14 in Believing Ancient Women: Feminist Epistemologies for Greece and Rome, edited by Megan Bowen, Mary Gilbert, and Gwen Nally, Edinburgh University Press, 242-261. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781399512077-017
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