TY - BOOK AU - Eisenbichler,Konrad ED - Project Muse. TI - The sword and the pen: women, politics, and poetry in sixteenth-century Siena SN - 9780268078652 AV - PQ4103.E47 2012 U1 - 851/.4099287094558 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Notre Dame, Ind. PB - University of Notre Dame Press KW - Italian poetry KW - Translations into English KW - Italy KW - Siena KW - 16th century KW - History and criticism KW - Women and literature KW - History KW - Women authors KW - Politics and government KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780268078652/ ER -