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Shining eyes, cruel fortune : the lives and loves of Italian Renaissance women poets / Irma B. Jaffe with Gernando Colombardo. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jaffe, Irma B.
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Women poets, Italian--16th century--Biography.
- Women poets, Italian.
- Poets, Italian--16th century--Biography.
- Poets, Italian.
- Women and literature--Italy--History--16th century.
- Women and literature.
- Italian poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Italian poetry.
- Italian poetry--16th century--History and criticism.
- Genre:
- Compact discs.
- Biographies.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxx, 429 p., 8 p. of plates ) ill. (some col.), maps ; 1 sound dsic (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- Accompanying CD contains poems in Italian.
- Summary:
- CD contains: Readings of selected poems from text.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [411]-415) and indexes.
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