In her critical positioning of Battiferra, Kirkham is keen to distance herself from the tendency to consider sixteenth-century female-authored lyric as a tradition apart: a "virtual
matroneum" that has had the effect of "isolating [Battiferra] from the cultural mainstream where once she thrived" (53).
Tuttavia il nocciolo dell'analisi della Parati non e il
matroneum che definisce come sfera privata della donna nei suoi vari ruoli di moglie, figlia e madre "completed by the privileged 'space of privacy' inhabited by Man" (6).