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Selected Poetry and Prose: A Bilingual Edition (Other Voice in Early Modern Europe)by Chiara Matraini
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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. About the AuthorElaine 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 Matrainis poetical works. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Series Editors' Introduction Volume Introduction, by Giovanna Rabitti Volume Editor's Bibliography I 1555/56 Volume (Book A) II Spiritual Meditations III Considerations on the Seven Penitential Psalms of the Great King and Prophet David IV A Brief Discourse on the Life and Praise of the Most Blessed Virgin and Mother of the Son of God V 1597 Volume (Book C) VI Spiritual Dialogues Appendix: Derivative Lines in Matraini's Poetry Notes Series Editors' Bibliography Index of First Lines General Index What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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