This essay discusses the Italian renaissance poet Gaspara Stampa with focus on the negative reception her poetry received due to her gender. The discussion concerns an anonymously written poem that slander her, which is an imitation of one of Stampa's own poems. The parallels to the internet trolls of our own time are clear, as is the misogynous values behind this kind of slander. However, Stampa and other norm breaking poets, caused problems since they did not fit the neat categories of virgin/whore, but positioned in a third androgyne space between the binary configurations of feminine and masculine domains.