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A wager about fidelity drives Così fan tutte, Mozart's Italian comic opera first performed in 1790. Lorenzo Da Ponte's libretto follows two officers who agree to test their fiancées by returning in disguise and courting each other's partners. What begins as an attempt to prove certainty becomes a si...
*A Vindication of the Rights of Men* is a 1790 political pamphlet written by the British philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft. The text was composed as a direct response to Edmund Burke's *Reflections on the Revolution in France*, which had defended aristocratic traditions. Wollstonecraft's work actively...
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Foundational Wollstonecraft polemic praised for intellectual force and historical importance; occasionally diffuse and bound to immediate controversy.
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