The sword and the pen [electronic resource] : women, politics, and poetry in sixteenth-century Siena / Konrad Eisenbichler.

By: Eisenbichler, KonradContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, Italian Original language: Italian Publication details: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2012Description: xiii, 371 pISBN: 9780268078652 (electronic bk.)Other title: Women, politics, and poetry in sixteenth-century SienaSubject(s): Italian poetry -- 16th century -- History and criticism | Italian poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism | Women and literature -- Italy -- History -- 16th century | Italian poetry -- Italy -- Siena -- History and criticism | Italian poetry -- 16th century | Italian poetry -- Italy -- Siena | Italian poetry -- Translations into English | Italy -- Politics and government -- 16th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 851/.4099287094558 LOC classification: PQ4103 | .E47 2012Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction -- At Petrarch's tomb: the first bloom of a short springtime -- Aurelia Petrucci: admired and mourned -- Laudomia Forteguerri: constructions of a woman -- Virginia Salvi: an indomitable woman -- Epilogue -- Appendix: selected poetry by Sienese women. Ermellina Arringhieri de' Cerretani; Francesca B; Pia Bichi; Ortensia Scarpi; Atalanta Donati; Laudomia Forteguerri; Lucrezia Figliucci; Cassandra Petrucci; Silvia Piccolomini; Virginia Martini Casolani Salvi -- Onorata Tancredi Pecci.
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Includes analysis and reproduction of many poems in Italian and modern English translation.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction -- At Petrarch's tomb: the first bloom of a short springtime -- Aurelia Petrucci: admired and mourned -- Laudomia Forteguerri: constructions of a woman -- Virginia Salvi: an indomitable woman -- Epilogue -- Appendix: selected poetry by Sienese women. Ermellina Arringhieri de' Cerretani; Francesca B; Pia Bichi; Ortensia Scarpi; Atalanta Donati; Laudomia Forteguerri; Lucrezia Figliucci; Cassandra Petrucci; Silvia Piccolomini; Virginia Martini Casolani Salvi -- Onorata Tancredi Pecci.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

English and Italian.

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