Moderata Fonte

Moderata Fonte, directly translating to 'Moderate Well', is a pseudonym of Modesta di Pozzo di Forzi, also known as Modesto Pozzo, (1555–1592) a Venetian writer and poet. Besides the posthumously-published dialogues, Giustizia delle donne and Il merito delle donne, for which she is best known, she wrote a romance and religious poetry. Details of her life are known from the biography by Giovanni Niccolò Doglioni (1548-1629), her uncle, included as a preface to the dialogue.