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- PublicationOpen AccessIl Trastullo delle donne di Faustino Perisauli da Tredozio: un unicum nella Querelle des Femmes.(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2022) Cerrato, DanieleThe aim of our study is to analyse Faustino Perisauli's Il Trastullo delle donne within the Querelle des Femmes. Perisauli's poem in octaves, which is a response to the misogynist text Sonaglio delle donne composed by Bernardo Giambullari, is one of the few examples of compositions in verse within the debate on female dignity that had already been developed in the fourteenth century with texts such as "Ahi lasso che li boni e li malvagi" de Guittone d'Arezzo. Following his example, Perisauli proclaimed himself an advocate of the female sex and refuted some of the prejudices and accusations addressed to women. He introduces a whole series of arguments that would also be used by the 16th-century "defend- ers of women" in their dialogues and by the women writers of the 16th and 17th centuries. Addressing his antagonist to all men in general, the author of the Trastullo thus seems to propose in his text, albeit in a playful manner, a different model of masculinity