Socialsciences and Humanities: Corpus Open Access Journal
[ ISSN : 3068-0956 ]
Rediscovering Laura Cereta through the Paratexts of Jacopo Filippo Tomasini’s 1640 Edition: A Close Reading of Selected Letters
Independent Researcher, Spain
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This article seeks to reassess the intellectual profile of Laura Cereta (1469–1499) through a two fold analytical framework. First, it examines the paratexts composed by Jacopo Filippo Tomasini for his 1640 Paduan edition of Cereta’s works, considering their role in shaping her posthumous reception. Second, it investigates the poetic principles articulated by Cereta in her letter to the reader and offers a close reading of selected passages from her correspondence.
By situating these texts within the broader context of Neo-Latin humanism, the article argues that Cereta’s reflections reveal an exceptional degree of erudition and a remarkably forward-looking conception of literary authorship and poetic authority.