Bartolomeo Goggio

Bartolomeo Goggio (also known Goggi, Gogio, and Gogo) was an Italian author and notary. He was born in Ferrara circa 1430 and died some time after 1493. He is most recognized for De laudibus mulierum [On the Merits of Women], written in the late 1480s, which was dedicated to Eleanor of Naples, Duchess of Ferrara. Only one surviving manuscript of De laudibus mulierum, held at the British Library, is known to exist. For this work, Goggio is recognized as a contributor to the pro-woman side of the querelle des femmes — "a debate about the nature and worth of women that unfolded in Europe from the medieval to the early modern period". In De laudibus mulierum Goggio argues for the superiority of women. After Eleanor's death, Goggio wrote another philosophical work, De nobilitate humani animi opus.