![]() | Women Poets of the Italian Renaissance: Courtly Ladies & Courtesans Subjects: Italian poetry -- Women authors -- Translations into English; Italian poetry -- 15th century -- Translations into English; Italian poetry -- 16th century -- Translations into English; This dual-language anthology presents the rich flowering of women's poetry during the Italian Renaissance: from the love lyrics of famous courtly ladies to the deeply moral and spiritual verses of the long-ignored poets of the age. It includes biographies of 19 poets and over 80 selected poems in the original Italian with facing English verse translation. Poets include: Laura Battiferri Ammannati, Isabella Andreini, Vittoria Colonna, Tullia d'Aragona, Lucia Bertani Dell'Oro, Leonora Ravira Falletti, Moderata Fonte, Veronica Franco, Veronica Gàmbara, Olimpia Malipiera, Chiara Matraini, Lucrezia Tornabuoni de' Medici, Isabella di Morra, Aurelia Petrucci, Antonia Giannotti Pulci, Camilla Scarampa, Gaspara Stampa, Laura Bacio Terracina, Barbara Bentivoglio Strozzi Torelli. Dual-language poetry. Introduction, biographies, notes, bibliographies, first-line index. |
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