Učene žene i autorice u dubrovačkom i dalmatinskom renesansnom pjesništvu na talijanskom jeziku [Learned women and women authors in Ragusan and Dalmatian renaissance poetry in italian]

This essay focuses on strategies of representation and ideas about learned women and women authors in the sixteenth-century Italian poetry written by Ragusan and Dalmatian authors (Hanibal Lucić, Ludovik Paskalić, Dinko Ranjina, Sabo Bobaljević, Miho Monaldi and others). In the first part, the evidence of women’s fifteenth-century lyric poetry, contained in the Regin manuscript, is analysed. The second part examines the representation of learned women in the Italian verses of the mentioned poets and considers their role in the literary culture of the second half of the sixteenth century. The last part of the work deals with the poems of Ragusan and Dalmatian authors in two Italian poetry collections connected with learned women.