Selected Poetry and Prose – A Billingual Edition - Couverture rigide

Matraini, Chiara

9780226510842: Selected Poetry and Prose – A Billingual Edition

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ISBN 10 : 0226510840 ISBN 13 : 9780226510842

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2008

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Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

Chiara Matraini (1515-1604) was a member of the great flowering of poetic imitators and innovators in the Italian literary heritage begun by Petrarch, cultivated later by the lyric poet Pietro Bembo, and supplanted by the epic poet Torquato Tasso. Though without formal training, Matraini excelled in a number of literary genres popular at the time-poetry, religious meditation, discourse, and dialogue. In her midlife, she published a collection of erotic love poetry, but later in life her work shifted toward a search for spiritual salvation. Near the end of her life, she published a new poetry retrospective. Mostly available in only a handful of rare book collections, her writings are now adeptly translated here for an English-speaking audience and situated historically in an introduction by noted Matraini expert Giovanna Rabitti. Selected Poetry and Prose allows the poet to finally take her place as one of the seminal authors of the Renaissance, next to her contemporaries Vittoria Colonna and Laura Battiferra, also published in the Other Voice series.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Elaine Maclachlan was a teacher of Italian at Harvard, Smith College, and Tufts University. She is now retired from teaching. Giovanna Rabitti is assistant professor of philology of Italian literature at the University of Sassari, Italy, and the editor of the Italian critical edition of Chiara Matraini's poetical works.

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