The Complete Poems: The 1554 Edition of the "Rime," a Bilingual Edition (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series) - Hardcover

Stampa, Gaspara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226770710 ISBN 13: 9780226770710

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2010

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Gaspara Stampa (1523-1554) is one of the finest female poets ever to write in Italian. Although she was lauded for her singing during her lifetime, her success and critical reputation as a poet emerged only after her verse was republished in the early eighteenth century. Her poetry runs the gamut of human emotion, ranging from ecstasy over a consummated love affair to despair at its end. While these tormented works and their multiple male addressees have led to speculation that Stampa may have been one of Venice's famous courtesans, they can also be read as a rebuttal of typical assumptions about women's roles. Championed by Rainer Maria Rilke, among others, she has more recently been celebrated by feminist scholars for her distinctive and original voice and her challenge to convention. The first complete translation of Stampa into English, this volume collects all of her passionate and lyrical verse. It is also the first modern critical edition of her poems, and in restoring the original sequence of the 1554 text, it allows readers the opportunity to encounter Stampa as she intended. Jane Tylus renders Stampa's verse in precise and graceful English translations, allowing a new generation of students and scholars of poetry, Renaissance literature, and music history to rediscover this incipiently modern Italian poet.

Biografía del autor:

Troy Tower is a PhD candidate in Italian studies at Johns Hopkins University. Jane Tylus is professor of Italian studies and director of the Humanities Initiative at New York University. She is the author, most recently, of Reclaiming Catherine of Siena: Literacy, Literature, and the Signs of Others, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0226770710
• ISBN 13: 9780226770710
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 480