Selected Poetry and Prose
A Bilingual Edition
Seiten
2007
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-51085-9 (ISBN)
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-51085-9 (ISBN)
Chiara Matraini was a member of the great flowering of poetic imitators and innovators in the Italian literary heritage begun by Petrarch. She excelled in a number of literary genres - poetry, religious meditation, discourse, and dialogue. This book is a collection of her erotic love poetry and poems on spiritual salvation.
Chiara Matraini (1515-1604) was a member of the great flowering of poetic imitators and innovators in the Italian literary heritage begun by Petrarch, cultivated later by the lyric poet Pietro Bembo, and supplanted by the epic poet Torquato Tasso. Though without formal training, Matraini excelled in a number of literary genres popular at the time - poetry, religious meditation, discourse, and dialogue. In her midlife, she published a collection of erotic love poetry, but later in life her work shifted toward a search for spiritual salvation. Near the end of her life, she published a new poetry retrospective. Previously available in only a handful of rare book collections, her writings are now adeptly translated here for an English-speaking audience and situated historically in an introduction by noted Matraini expert Giovanna Rabitti. "Selected Poetry and Prose" allows the poet to finally take her place as one of the seminal authors of "The Renaissance", next to her contemporaries Vittoria Colonna and Laura Battiferra, also published in the "Other Voice" series.
Chiara Matraini (1515-1604) was a member of the great flowering of poetic imitators and innovators in the Italian literary heritage begun by Petrarch, cultivated later by the lyric poet Pietro Bembo, and supplanted by the epic poet Torquato Tasso. Though without formal training, Matraini excelled in a number of literary genres popular at the time - poetry, religious meditation, discourse, and dialogue. In her midlife, she published a collection of erotic love poetry, but later in life her work shifted toward a search for spiritual salvation. Near the end of her life, she published a new poetry retrospective. Previously available in only a handful of rare book collections, her writings are now adeptly translated here for an English-speaking audience and situated historically in an introduction by noted Matraini expert Giovanna Rabitti. "Selected Poetry and Prose" allows the poet to finally take her place as one of the seminal authors of "The Renaissance", next to her contemporaries Vittoria Colonna and Laura Battiferra, also published in the "Other Voice" series.
Elaine Maclachlan was a teacher of Italian at Harvard University, Smith College, and Tufts University. She is now retired from teaching.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.1.2008 |
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Reihe/Serie | The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series |
Einführung | Giovanna Rabitti |
Übersetzer | Elaine Maclachlan |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 17 x 23 mm |
Gewicht | 454 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-226-51085-9 / 0226510859 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-51085-9 / 9780226510859 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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