The sword and the pen [electronic resource] : women, politics, and poetry in sixteenth-century Siena / by Konrad Eisenbichler.
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TextLanguage: English, Italian Original language: Italian Series: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2012. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)ISBN: - 9780268078652
- 0268078653
- Italian poetry -- Translations into English
- Italian poetry -- Italy -- Siena
- Italian poetry -- 16th century
- Italian poetry -- Italy -- Siena -- History and criticism
- Women and literature -- Italy -- History -- 16th century
- Italian poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- Italian poetry -- 16th century -- History and criticism
- Italy -- Politics and government -- 16th century
- 851/.4099287094558 23
- PQ4103.E47 2012
Includes analysis and reproduction of many poems in Italian and modern English translation.
Introduction -- At Petrarch's tomb: the first bloom of a short springtime -- Aurelia Petrucci: admired and mourned -- Laudomia Forteguerri: constructions of a woman -- Virginia Salvi: an indomitable woman -- Epilogue -- Appendix: selected poetry by Sienese women. Ermellina Arringhieri de' Cerretani; Francesca B; Pia Bichi; Ortensia Scarpi; Atalanta Donati; Laudomia Forteguerri; Lucrezia Figliucci; Cassandra Petrucci; Silvia Piccolomini; Virginia Martini Casolani Salvi -- Onorata Tancredi Pecci.
English and Italian.
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