Women Poets of the Italian Renaissance: Courtly Ladies and Courtesans (edit title)

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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 original Italian with facing English verse translation. Poets include Isabella Andreini, Vittoria Colonna, Tullia d'Aragona, Veronica Franco, Veronica Gmbara, Olimpia Malipiera, Chiara Matraini, Lucrezia Tornabuoni de' Medici, Aurelia Petrucci, Antonia Giannotti Pulci, Camilla Scarampa, Gaspara Stampa, and others. Includes introduction, biographies, notes, bibliographies, first-line index.

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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.