Women Poets of the
Italian Renaissance
Courtly Ladies & Courtesans

Edited by Laura Anna Stortoni
Translated by Laura Anna Stortoni
& Mary Prentice Lillie

THIS DUAL-LANGUAGE COLLECTION presents the rich flowering of women’s poetry during the Italian Renaissance: from the love lyrics of famous courtly ladies of Venice and Rome to the deeply moral and spiritual poets of the age. It includes biographies of 19 poets and over 80 selected poems in the original Italian with facing English verse translation.

POETS INCLUDE:

 Laura Battiferri Ammannati    Chiara Matraini
 Isabella Andreini    Lucrezia Tornabuoni de’ Medici
 Vittoria Colonna    Isabella di Morra
 Tullia d’Aragona    Aurelia Petrucci
 Lucia Bertani Dell’Oro    Antonia Giannotti Pulci
 Leonora Ravira Falletti    Camilla Scarampa
 Moderata Fonte    Gaspara Stampa
 Veronica Franco    Laura Bacio Terracina
 Veronica Gàmbara    Barbara Bentivoglio Strozzi Torelli
 Olimpia Malipiera    

DUAL-LANGUAGE POETRY
Introduction, biographies, notes, bibliographies, first-line index, 300 pp.

Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-59910-422-5
Price: $35.00

Paperback
ISBN: 978-0934977-43-2
Price: $20.00

Kindle Edition
ASIN: B00495XTSC
Price: $9.99




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