Category:Women Authorship--Italian

The category: Women Authorship--Italian, includes scholarly and fictional works by women scholars & authors in Italian language.

Lucrezia Tornabuoni

Italian women were among the very first to contribute to Biblical Studies as writers and artists. Already in 1475 Lucrezia Tornabuoni published a collection of poems dealing with major characters in the Bible, including Judith, Tobias, Esther, Susanna, and John the Baptist. Fede Galizia in the 16th century, and Artemisia Gentileschi in the 17th century emerged as renowned painters, focusing on female biblical characters like Judith, Susanna, Elizabeth and Mary of Nazareth.

In the 18th century Maria Margherita Grimani's oratorios on New Testament subjects were the first compositions by a woman to be performed at the court theater in Vienna, Austria. In 1733 Francesca Manzoni Giusti, member of the Academies of the Trasformatis and the Arcadis, wrote a drama on Esther.

After a long period of silence, Italian women reentered the field after World War II, this time as scholars. In the 1950s and 1960s archaeologist Margherita Guarducci led the excavations of the Tomb of Peter in the Vatican. In the 1970s Clara Kraus Reggiani began her publishing work on the Hellenistic-Jewish tradition and Philo of Alexandria. in the 1980s Liliana Rosso-Ubigli from the University of Rome gave her contribution on the study of the OT Pseudepigrapha.

In the 1990s theologian Carla Ricci and novelist Rosa Artale entered the field of New Testament studies. Francesca Calabi emerged as a leading authority in Hellenistic-Jewish Studies.

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