Love enamored and driven mad / Lucrezia Marinella, edited and translated by Janet E. Gomez and Maria Galli Stampino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marinella, Lucrezia, 1571-1653, author.

Contributor:

Gomez, Janet, editor.

Stampino, Maria Galli, editor.

Series:

The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: the Toronto

The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: the Toronto ; v.72

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women authors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (227 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario ; Tempe, Arizona : Iter Press : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, [2020]

Language Note:

Translated into English from Italian.

Summary:

"English translation of a lengthy poem by Italian author Lucrezia Marinella, composed in 1598, elaborating the classical motif of the enamored Cupid with religious allegorization and pro-woman themes"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Other Voice

Marinella's Life and Works

Works, 1595-1605

Works, 1617-1648

Historical Context

Ovid: Metamorphoseon libri (Metamorphoses)

Prudentius: Psychomachia (Battle of the Soul)

Dante: Divina commedia (Divine Comedy)

Boccaccio: Genealogia deorum gentilium (Genealogy of the PaganGods)

Tasso: Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered)

Summary and Analysis

Apuleius: The Source Text

Marinella's Amore innamorato et impazzato (Love Enamored and Driven Mad)

Petrarchan Beauty in a New Context

Marinella's Poetics

Marinella as an Observer of Her World and Society

Afterlife

Note on the Translation

Love Enamored and Driven Mad

Preliminary Texts

Dedicatory Letter

Allegory of the Poem

Permission

To the Reader

Canto 1

Canto 2

Canto 3

Canto 4

Canto 5

Canto 6

Canto 7

Canto 8

Canto 9

Canto 10

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-86698-758-4