Laura Battiferra and Her Literary Circle
An Anthology: A Bilingual Edition
Seiten
2006
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-03923-7 (ISBN)
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-03923-7 (ISBN)
Internationally known during her lifetime, Laura Battiferra (1523-89) was a gifted and prolife poet in Renaissance Florence. This anthology gathers her most essential writing, including newly discovered poems, to provide modern readers with a valuable social chronicle of sixteenth-century Italy and the courtly culture of the Counter-Reformation.
Internationally known during her lifetime, Laura Battiferra (1523-89) was a gifted and prolife poet in Renaissance Florence. The author of nearly 400 sonnets, Battiferra, who was married to the prominent sculptor and architect Bartolomeo Ammannati, traversed an elite literary and artistic network, circulating her verse in a complex and intellectually fecund exchange with some of the most illustrious figures in Italian history. In this anthology Victoria Kirkham gathers Battiferra's most essential writing, including newly discovered poems, to provide modern readers with a valuable social chronicle of sixteenth-century Italy and the courtly culture of the Counter-Reformation.
Internationally known during her lifetime, Laura Battiferra (1523-89) was a gifted and prolife poet in Renaissance Florence. The author of nearly 400 sonnets, Battiferra, who was married to the prominent sculptor and architect Bartolomeo Ammannati, traversed an elite literary and artistic network, circulating her verse in a complex and intellectually fecund exchange with some of the most illustrious figures in Italian history. In this anthology Victoria Kirkham gathers Battiferra's most essential writing, including newly discovered poems, to provide modern readers with a valuable social chronicle of sixteenth-century Italy and the courtly culture of the Counter-Reformation.
Victoria Kirkham is professor of Romance languages at the University of Pennsylvania.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.5.2006 |
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Reihe/Serie | The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series |
Übersetzer | Victoria Kirkham |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 17 x 23 mm |
Gewicht | 851 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Anthologien |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-226-03923-4 / 0226039234 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-03923-7 / 9780226039237 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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