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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, Italian Original language: Italian Publication details: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2012.Description: xiii, 371 pOther title:
  • Women, politics, and poetry in sixteenth-century Siena
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 851/.4099287094558 23
LOC classification:
  • PQ4103 .E47 2012eb
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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. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

English and Italian.

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