Scanderbeide

Author : Lucrezia Marinella
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780226505497

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Enrico; or, Byzantium Conquered by Lucrezia Marinella Pdf

Lucrezia Marinella (1571–1653) is, by all accounts, a phenomenon in early modernity: a woman who wrote and published in many genres, whose fame shone brightly within and outside her native Venice, and whose voice is simultaneously original and reflective of her time and culture. In Enrico; or, Byzantium Conquered, one of the most ambitious and rewarding of her numerous narrative works, Marinella demonstrates her skill as an epic poet. Now available for the first time in English translation, Enrico retells the story of the conquest of Byzantium in the Fourth Crusade (1202–04). Marinella intersperses historical events in her account of the invasion with numerous invented episodes, drawing on the rich imaginative legacy of the chivalric romance. Fast-moving, colorful, and narrated with the zest that characterizes Marinella’s other works, this poem is a great example of a woman engaging critically with a quintessentially masculine form and subject matter, writing in a genre in which the work of women poets was typically shunned.

Author : Meredith K. Ray
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674504233

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Daughters of Alchemy by Meredith K. Ray Pdf

Meredith Ray shows that women were at the vanguard of empirical culture during the Scientific Revolution. They experimented with medicine and alchemy at home and in court, debated cosmological discoveries in salons and academies, and in their writings used their knowledge of natural philosophy to argue for women’s intellectual equality to men.

Author : Margherita Sarrocchi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226735061

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Scanderbeide by Margherita Sarrocchi Pdf

The first historical heroic epic authored by a woman, Scanderbeide recounts the exploits of fifteenth-century Albanian warrior-prince George Scanderbeg and his war of resistance against the Ottoman sultanate. Filled with scenes of intense and suspenseful battles contrasted with romantic episodes, Scanderbeide combines the action and fantasy characteristic of the genre with analysis of its characters’ motivations. In selecting a military campaign as her material and epic poetry as her medium, Margherita Sarrocchi (1560?–1617) not only engages in the masculine subjects of political conflict and warfare but also tackles a genre that was, until that point, the sole purview of men. First published posthumously in 1623, Scanderbeide reemerges here in an adroit English prose translation that maintains the suspense of the original text and gives ample context to its rich cultural implications.

Author : Meredith K. Ray
Publisher : Springer
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137596031

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Margherita Sarrocchi's Letters to Galileo by Meredith K. Ray Pdf

This book examines a pivotal moment in the history of science and women’s place in it. Meredith Ray offers the first in-depth study and complete English translation of the fascinating correspondence between Margherita Sarrocchi (1560-1617), a natural philosopher and author of the epic poem, Scanderbeide (1623), and famed astronomer, Galileo Galilei. Their correspondence, undertaken soon after the publication of Galileo’s Sidereus Nuncius, reveals how Sarrocchi approached Galileo for his help revising her epic poem, offering, in return, her endorsement of his recent telescopic discoveries. Situated against the vibrant and often contentious backdrop of early modern intellectual and academic culture, their letters illustrate, in miniature, that the Scientific Revolution was, in fact, the product of a long evolution with roots in the deep connections between literary and scientific exchanges.

Author : Slav N. Gratchev,Ida Day,Larry Sheret
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781666907247

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Female Friendship by Slav N. Gratchev,Ida Day,Larry Sheret Pdf

This volume focuses on the literary and artistic exploration of female friendship in various geographical contexts, spanning the centuries from the medieval period until the present. The essays address the intense female bonding in world literature as a universal human need for intimacy, sense of belonging, and purpose. The main focus is on the reevaluation of friendships between women, which have been traditionally less epitomized than those between men. The authors of this volume demonstrate how the emotional unions of women offer compelling insights to various historical and contemporary societies, helping us understand gender relations, traditions, family life, and community values.

Author : Marco Sgarbi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 3618 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319141695

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Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy by Marco Sgarbi Pdf

Gives accurate and reliable summaries of the current state of research. It includes entries on philosophers, problems, terms, historical periods, subjects and the cultural context of Renaissance Philosophy. Furthermore, it covers Latin, Arabic, Jewish, Byzantine and vernacular philosophy, and includes entries on the cross-fertilization of these philosophical traditions. A unique feature of this encyclopedia is that it does not aim to define what Renaissance philosophy is, rather simply to cover the philosophy of the period between 1300 and 1650.

Author : Brian Richardson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108477697

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Women and the Circulation of Texts in Renaissance Italy by Brian Richardson Pdf

The first comprehensive guide to women's promotion and use of textual culture, in manuscript and print, in Renaissance Italy.

Author : Paula Findlen,Suzanne Sutherland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429770951

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The Renaissance of Letters by Paula Findlen,Suzanne Sutherland Pdf

The Renaissance of Letters traces the multiplication of letter-writing practices between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries in the Italian peninsula and beyond to explore the importance of letters as a crucial document for understanding the Italian Renaissance. This edited collection contains case studies, ranging from the late medieval re-emergence of letter-writing to the mid-seventeenth century, that offer a comprehensive analysis of the different dimensions of late medieval and Renaissance letters—literary, commercial, political, religious, cultural, social, and military—which transformed them into powerful early modern tools. The Renaissance was an era that put letters into the hands of many kinds of people, inspiring them to see reading, writing, receiving, and sending letters as an essential feature of their identity. The authors take a fresh look at the correspondence of some of the most important humanists of the Italian Renaissance, including Niccolò Machiavelli and Isabella d'Este, and consider the use of letters for others such as merchants and physicians. This book is essential reading for scholars and students of Early Modern History and Literature, Renaissance Studies, and Italian Studies. The engagement with essential primary sources renders this book an indispensable tool for those teaching seminars on Renaissance history and literature.

Author : Meredith K. Ray
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003813897

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Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Italian Renaissance by Meredith K. Ray Pdf

• This book offers an engaging, well-researched introduction to the influential female figures who helped lay the foundations of Renaissance culture, making it easy for educators to integrate women’s history into the study of the past and for the general reader to gain a reliable, richly detailed overview. • Each chapter functions as a stand-alone study, combining an engaging narrative biography with an expert grasp of the cultural, political, and artistic context of this historical period to allow students and lecturers to either use parts or the whole of this book to support their studies and teaching. • Taken as a whole, students will be shown that these women were not isolated cases of female exceptionality, but rather a part of a larger and more complex tapestry of Renaissance achievement, one that connects them to one another as well as to the male writers, artists, and leaders whose names many readers will already know. • Interwoven within each chapter are primary sources (letters, poems, sketches) and portraits of each of the women discussed, providing students with a fuller picture of these women.

Author : Crystal Hall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107047556

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Galileo's Reading by Crystal Hall Pdf

This book argues the importance of Galileo's reading and engagement with a range of writers to the shaping of early modern philosophy.

Author : Moderata Fonte
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780226256795

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Floridoro by Moderata Fonte Pdf

The first original chivalric poem written by an Italian woman, Floridoro imbues a strong feminist ethos into a hypermasculine genre. Dotted with the usual characteristics—dark forests, illusory palaces, enchanted islands, seductive sorceresses—Floridoro is the story of the two greatest knights of a bygone age: the handsome Floridoro, who risks everything for love, and the beautiful Risamante, who helps women in distress while on a quest for her inheritance. Throughout, Moderata Fonte (1555–92) vehemently defends women’s capacity to rival male prowess in traditionally male-dominated spheres. And her open criticism of women’s lack of education is echoed in the plights of various female characters who must depend on unreliable men. First published in 1581, Floridoro remains a vivacious and inventive narrative by a singular poet.

Author : Virginia Cox
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421401607

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The Prodigious Muse by Virginia Cox Pdf

Winner, 2012 Book Award, Society for the Study of Early Modern WomenHonorable Mention, Literature, 2012 PROSE Awards, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers In her award-winning, critically acclaimed Women’s Writing in Italy, 1400–1650, Virginia Cox chronicles the history of women writers in early modern Italy—who they were, what they wrote, where they fit in society, and how their status changed during this period. In this book, Cox examines more closely one particular moment in this history, in many ways the most remarkable for the richness and range of women’s literary output. A widespread critical notion sees Italian women’s writing as a phenomenon specific to the peculiar literary environment of the mid-sixteenth century, and most scholars assume that a reactionary movement such as the Counter-Reformation was unlikely to spur its development. Cox argues otherwise, showing that women’s writing flourished in the period following 1560, reaching beyond the customary "feminine" genres of lyric, poetry, and letters to experiment with pastoral drama, chivalric romance, tragedy, and epic. There were few widely practiced genres in this eclectic phase of Italian literature to which women did not turn their hand. Organized by genre, and including translations of all excerpts from primary texts, this comprehensive and engaging volume provides students and scholars with an invaluable resource as interest in these exceptional writers grows. In addition to familiar, secular works by authors such as Isabella Andreini, Moderata Fonte, and Lucrezia Marinella, Cox also discusses important writings that have largely escaped critical interest, including Fonte’s and Marinella’s vivid religious narratives, an unfinished Amazonian epic by Maddalena Salvetti, and the startlingly fresh autobiographical lyrics of Francesca Turina Bufalini. Juxtaposing religious and secular writings by women and tracing their relationship to the male-authored literature of the period, often surprisingly affirmative in its attitudes toward women, Cox reveals a new and provocative vision of the Italian Counter-Reformation as a period far less uniformly repressive of women than is commonly assumed.

Author : Virginia Cox
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801895432

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Women's Writing in Italy, 1400–1650 by Virginia Cox Pdf

Winner, 2009 Best Book Award, Society for the Study of Early Modern WomenWinner, 2008 PROSE Award for Best Book in Language, Literature, and Linguistics. Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers This is the first comprehensive study of the remarkably rich tradition of women’s writing that flourished in Italy between the fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Virginia Cox documents this tradition and both explains its character and scope and offers a new hypothesis on the reasons for its emergence and decline. Cox combines fresh scholarship with a revisionist argument that overturns existing historical paradigms for the chronology of early modern Italian women’s writing and questions the historiographical commonplace that the tradition was brought to an end by the Counter Reformation. Using a comparative analysis of women's activities as artists, musicians, composers, and actresses, Cox locates women's writing in its broader contexts and considers how gender reflects and reinvents conventional narratives of literary change.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : English imprints
ISBN : UCR:31210023575366

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Translation Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lynn Lara Westwater
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487505837

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Sarra Copia Sulam by Lynn Lara Westwater Pdf

The first biography of the Jewish poet and polemicist Sarra Copia Sulam situates her in the tradition of women's writing in Venice and explores her rise and fall as a public intellectual in the tumultuous world of the city's presses.