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- Lyric Poetry by Women of the Italian Renaissance
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- 2013
- Published by: Johns Hopkins University Press
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Bilingual, annotated edition of more than 200 poems by Italian Renaissance women, many of which have never before been published in English.Outstanding Academic Title, ChoiceLyric Poetry by Women of the Italian Renaissance is the first modern anthology of verse by Italian women of this period to give a full representation of the richness and diversity of their output. Although familiar authors such as Vittoria Colonna, Gaspara Stampa, and Veronica Gambara are well represented, half of the fifty-four poets featured are unknown even to many specialists. Especially noteworthy is an extensive selection of verse from the period following 1560, which has received little or no critical attention. This later, strikingly experimental, proto-Baroque tradition of verse is reconstructed here for the first time.Virginia Cox creates both a scholarly teaching resource and a collection of poetry accessible to general readers with no previous knowledge of the Italian poetic tradition. Each poem is presented in its original language, accompanied by a translation and commentary. An introduction traces the history of Italian lyric poetry from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century. Cox also provides a guide to meter, rhythm, and rhyme, as well as a glossary of rhetorical terms and a biographical dictionary of authors.Organized thematically, this book offers poems about love, religion, and politics; verse addressed to patrons, friends, family, and places; and polemical and correspondence verse. Four languages are represented: Greek, Latin, literary Tuscan of various levels of standardization, and the stylized rustic dialect of pavan. The volume contains more than 200 poems, of which about a quarter have never before been published in a modern edition and more than a third have not previously been available in English translation."Exhaustive and insightful . . . This is an amazing book, a major achievement in the field of women's studies."—Renaissance Quarterly, reviewing Women’s Writing in Italy, 1400–1650
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xv-xvi
- Introduction
- pp. 17-84
- Amorous Verse
- In vita
- Amedea degli Aleardi
- Girolama Corsi
- Camilla Scarampa
- Veronica Gambara
- Vittoria Colonna
- Barbara Salutati
- Tullia d’Aragona
- Virginia Salvi
- Gaspara Stampa
- 28. Il cor verrebbe teco
- p. 107
- Chiara Matraini
- 33. Freschi, ombrosi, fioriti e verdi colli
- pp. 112-114
- Veronica Franco
- 35. Quel che ascoso nel cor tenni gran tempo
- pp. 120-127
- Francesca Turina
- Lucrezia della Valle
- In morte
- Veronica Gambara
- Vittoria Colonna
- 48. Mentre la nave mia, longe dal porto
- pp. 141-145
- Chiara Matraini
- Livia Spinola
- Francesca Turina
- Ventriloquized Love Poetry
- Dianora Sanseverino
- 60. La bella Bradamante che sé stessa
- pp. 158-162
- Vincenza Armani
- 61. Notte felice e lieta
- pp. 163-166
- Fiammetta Soderini
- 62. Febo nell’ocean tuffato avendo
- pp. 167-171
- Orsina Cavaletti
- Moderata Fonte
- Isabella Andreini
- 69. Deh girate
- pp. 178-180
- 70. Movea dolce un zefiretto
- pp. 181-184
- Lucchesia Sbarra
- Religious Verse
- Lucrezia Tornabuoni
- 73. Echo el Re forte
- pp. 188-191
- Vittoria Colonna
- Veronica Gambara
- Isabella Morra
- Gaspara Stampa
- Costanza d’Avalos
- Girolama Castellani
- Olimpia Malipiero
- Laura Battiferri
- Moderata Fonte
- 98. S’angelico pensier, puro intelletto
- pp. 219-225
- Lucia Colao
- Battista Vernazza
- Lorenza Strozzi
- 102. prima currentis celebratur anni
- pp. 229-231
- 103. nunc Dei dicam ac hominis parentem
- pp. 232-234
- 104. lumen e coelo rutilans sereno
- pp. 235-237
- Maddalena Campiglia
- Chiara Matraini
- Livia Spinola
- Leonora Bernardi
- 111. Se pur fin su negli stellanti chiostri
- pp. 244-248
- Tarquinia Molza
- Lucrezia Marinella
- 118. Glorïoso Francesco
- pp. 254-255
- 119. O serafico eroe
- pp. 255-256
- Girolama Castagna
- Valeria Miani
- Maddalena Salvetti
- Semidea Poggi
- Francesca Turina
- Correspondence Verse
- Vittoria Colonna–Pietro Bembo
- 131. Cingi le costei tempie de l’amato
- pp. 268-270
- Veronica Gambara–Pietro Bembo
- 132. A l’ardente desio ch’ognior m’accende
- pp. 270-271
- Veronica Gambara–Vittoria Colonna
- 134. O de la nostra etade unica gloria
- pp. 272-273
- 135. Di novo il cielo de l’antica gloria
- pp. 273-274
- Tullia d’Aragona–Girolamo Muzio
- 136. Fiamma gentil che da gl’interni lumi
- pp. 274-275
- 137. Quai d’eloquenza fien sì chiari fiumi
- pp. 275-276
- Agnolo Bronzino–Laura Battiferri
- 138. Io giuro a voi per quella viva fronde
- pp. 276-277
- Angelo Grillo–Leonora Bernardi
- 140. E sì chiare, e sì belle, e sì devote
- pp. 278-279
- 141. Se le mie preci ed umili e devote
- pp. 279-280
- Maddalena Campiglia–Curzio Gonzaga
- 143. Qualor movo il pensier, alzo la mente
- pp. 281-283
- Angelo Ingegneri–Isabella Andreini
- 144. In ischietto vestir vera bellezza
- pp. 283-284
- 145. Un bel sembiante in abito negletto
- pp. 284-285
- Encomia of Rulers and Patrons
- Tullia d’Aragona to Cosimo I de’ Medici
- Laodomia Forteguerri to Margaret of Austria
- Laura Battiferri to Eleonora of Toledo
- Moderata Fonte to Francesco de’ Medici
- Maddalena Salvetti to Christine of Lorraine
- Ersilia Spolverini to Chiara Dolfin
- Isabella Cervoni to Maria de’ Medici
- 155. Donna real, che, dentro a nobil velo
- pp. 299-303
- Political Verse
- Girolama Corsi
- 156. Nel bel paese mio toscho gentile
- pp. 305-306
- Camilla Scarampa
- Veronica Gambara
- Vittoria Colonna
- Aurelia Petrucci
- Laura Terracina
- 162. Valoroso Signor, nella cui mente
- pp. 312-316
- Claudia della Rovere
- Virginia Salvi
- Isabella Cervoni
- Polemical and Manifesto Verse
- Camilla Scarampa
- Tullia d’Aragona
- Olimpia Morata
- 170. [omitted]
- pp. 332-333
- Moderata Fonte
- Chiara Matraini
- Veneranda Bragadin
- Sarra Copio
- Verse of Friendship and Family Love
- In vita
- Vittoria Colonna
- Olimpia Malipiero
- Laura Beatrice Cappello
- 177. Questo ramo d’alloro
- pp. 341-342
- 178. Questo crin, ch’io disposi
- pp. 342-343
- Lucchesia Sbarra
- Francesca Turina
- In morte
- Livia Pii
- Lucia Colao
- Agnese Piccolomini
- Lucchesia Sbarra
- Veneranda Bragadin
- Francesca Turina
- Other in morte Verse
- Laura Battiferri on Eleonora of Toledo
- “Gentildonna palermitana” on Laura Frías
- Orsina Cavaletti on Maddalena Calepio
- Catella Marchesi on Margherita Martinengo
- Verse of Place and Selfhood
- Isotta Nogarola
- Veronica Gambara
- 193. Con quel caldo desio che nascer suole
- pp. 365-367
- Isabella Morra
- Laura Battiferri
- Lucchesia Sbarra
- Francesca Turina
- Silvestra Collalto
- Comic and Dialect Verse
- Girolama Corsi
- 208. Io son fatta villanela
- pp. 383-386
- Issicratea Monte
- 209. Magagnò, el versurare è ’na nöela
- pp. 387-388
- Maddalena Campiglia
- Francesca Turina
- Notes on Authors
- pp. 391-400
- Appendixes
- A. Poems by Author
- pp. 401-407
- B. Poems by Meter
- pp. 408-413
- C. Metrical Analysis
- pp. 414-417
- D. Citations and Sources
- pp. 418-420
- Bibliography
- pp. 425-440
Additional Information
ISBN
9781421409504
Related ISBN(s)
9781421408873, 9781421408880
MARC Record
OCLC
965487007
Pages
472
Launched on MUSE
2016-12-10
Language
English
Open Access
No