Doubting Women in Early Modern Italy: Gender, Uncertainty, and Agency

This book explores early modern Italian women as agents of doubt. While women were often considered prone to doubt as a result of their natural weakness, the essays gathered here reverse this view, demonstrating how women were able to embrace doubt as a means to expand their agency.

Marco Faini is Assistant Professor of Italian at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). His recently co-edited volumes include Errors, False Opinions, and Defective Knowledge in Early Modern Europe(Florence, 2023, with Marco Sgarbi). He is the author of Standing at the Crossroads. Stories of Doubt in Renaissance Italy (Cambridge, 2023).