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Shining eyes, cruel fortune : the lives and loves of Italian Renaissance women poets / Irma B. Jaffe with Gernando Colombardo.
- Title
- Shining eyes, cruel fortune : the lives and loves of Italian Renaissance women poets / Irma B. Jaffe with Gernando Colombardo.
- Author
- Jaffe, Irma B.,
- Publication
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2002.
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- Additional Authors
- Colombardo, Gernando,
- Description
- xxx 429 pages : illustrations (some color), map; 26 cm +
- Summary
- "Shining Eyes, Cruel Fortune presents the life stories of twelve extraordinary women who lived passionately and recorded in poetry their happiness and heartbreaks. The setting is the Italian sixteenth century, the cinquecento, the period of the High Renaissance." "This illustrated volume offers insight into how it felt to be a woman in the sixteenth century - if, that is, one was among the aristocracy or upper bourgeoisie, and had more than a rudimentary education. Besides offering 239 poems, both in the original Italian and in translation, the text also addresses challenging art-historical problems involving one or another of the women and suggests possible solutions."
- Subject
- 1500-1599
- Biografie
- Écrits de femmes italiens > Histoire et critique
- Feminismus
- Femmes et littérature > Italie > Histoire > 16e siècle
- Frauenlyrik
- Geschichte 1480-1600
- Italian poetry
- Italian poetry > 16th century > History and criticism
- Italian poetry > History and criticism
- Italian poetry > Women authors
- Italien
- Italienisch
- Italienisch
- Italy
- Kunst
- Kunstwissenschaft
- Literatur
- Lyrikerin
- Poets, Italian > 16th century > Biography
- Poets, Italian
- Poètes italiens > 16e siècle > Biographies
- Poésie italienne > 16e siècle > Histoire et critique
- Poétesses italiennes > 16e siècle > Biographies
- Women and literature
- Women and literature > Italy > History > 16th century
- Women poets, Italian > 16th century > Biography
- Women poets, Italian
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Note
- "The CD included with the volume presents 68 of the poems recorded in the original Italian by distinguished Italian-born scholars of Italian literature"--Jacket.
- Errata slip inserted.
- "Index of first lines & CD tracks": pages [425]-429.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Language (note)
- English and Italian.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Veronica Gàmbara (1485-1550): shining eyes -- Vittoria Colonna (1492-1547): cruel fortune -- Tullia d'Aragona (1505/1510-1556): from bed to verse -- Chiara Matraini (1515-1604): the poet as Sibyl -- Isabella di Morra (1515/20-1548?) and Diego Sandoval de Castro (ca. 1505-1546): the scene of the crime revisited -- Laura Terracina (1519-ca. 1577): feminist -- Laura Battiferra (1523-1589) and Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572): a poet, a painter, a portrait, and a poem -- Gaspara Stampa (ca. 1523-1554): in love with love -- Isotta Brembate (ca. 1530-1586): paintings, poetry and murder -- Tarquinia Molza (1542-1617): the one and only -- Veronica Franca (1546-1591): the unhappy courtesan -- Moderata Fonte/Modesta da Pozzo (1555-1592): worthy women.
- ISBN
- 0823221806
- 9780823221806
- 0823221814
- 9780823221813
- LCCN
- 2001055667
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library