Note 61 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

Among these works may be mentioned Il Merito delle Donne, by Modesta Pozzo di Zorgi, Venice, 1600; La Nobilità e l'Excellenza delle Donne, by Lucrezia Marinelli, Venice, 1601; De Ingenii Muliebris ad Doctrinam et Meliores Litteras Aptitudine, by Anna van Schurman, Leyden, 1641; Les Dames Illustres, by Jaquette Guillame, Paris, 1665, and L'Egalité des Hommes et des Femmes, by Marie le Jars de Gournay, Paris, 1622. The last named work was by the celebrated fille d'alliance—adopted daughter—of Montaigne. It is to her that we owe the textus receptus of the Essais of the illustrious litterateur.