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This dual-language volume 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... read more

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Lucrezia Tornabuoni was one of the most influential women in fifteenth century Italy for her literary production, for her role in the social and political world of Florence and the whole Italian peninsula, and for her generosity and taste as a patroness of the arts.

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