TY - BOOK AU - Eisenbichler,Konrad ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - The sword and the pen: women, politics, and poetry in sixteenth-century Siena AV - PQ4103 .E47 2012 U1 - 851/.4099287094558 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Notre Dame, Ind. PB - University of Notre Dame Press KW - Italian poetry KW - 16th century KW - History and criticism KW - Women authors KW - Women and literature KW - Italy KW - History KW - Siena KW - Translations into English KW - Politics and government KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3441113 ER -