Selected poetry and prose / Chiara Matraini ; edited and translated by Elaine Maclachlan ; with an introduction by Giovanna Rabitti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matraini, Chiara, 1515-1604?

Contributor:

Maclachlan, Elaine.

Series:

Other Voice in Early Modern Europe

The other voice in early modern Europe

Standardized Title:

Selections. English & Italian. 2008

Language:

English

Italian

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 p.)

Edition:

A bilingual ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English and Italian.

Summary:

Chiara Matraini (1515-1604?) was a member of the great flowering of poetic imitators and innovators in the Italian literary heritage begun by Petrarch, cultivated later by the lyric poet Pietro Bembo, and supplanted by the epic poet Torquato Tasso. Though without formal training, Matraini excelled in a number of literary genres popular at the time-poetry, religious meditation, discourse, and dialogue. In her midlife, she published a collection of erotic love poetry, but later in life her work shifted toward a search for spiritual salvation. Near the end of her life, she published a new poetry retrospective. Mostly available in only a handful of rare book collections, her writings are now adeptly translated here for an English-speaking audience and situated historically in an introduction by noted Matraini expert Giovanna Rabitti. Selected Poetry and Prose allows the poet to finally take her place as one of the seminal authors of the Renaissance, next to her contemporaries Vittoria Colonna and Laura Battiferra, also published in the Other Voice series.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

THE OTHER VOICE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE: INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES

VOLUME INTRODUCTION

VOLUME EDITOR'S BIBLIOGRAPHY

1555 / 56 VOLUME (BOOK A)

II. SPIRITUAL MEDITATIONS

III. CONSIDERATIONS ON THE SEVEN PENITENTIAL PSALMS OF THE GREAT KING AND PROPHET DAVID

IV. A BRIEF DISCOURSE ON THE LIFE AND PRAISE OF THE MOST BLESSED VIRGIN AND MOTHER OF THE SON OF GOD

V. 1597 VOLUME (BOOK C)

VI. SPIRITUAL DIALOGUES

APPENDIX. DERIVATIVE LINES IN MATRAINI'S POETRY

NOTES

SERIES EDITORS'BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX OF FIRST LINES

GENERAL INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612070051

9781282070059

1282070053

9780226510866

0226510867

OCLC:

435816526