Laura Battiferra and her literary circle
Subtitle: an anthology
By: Laura Battiferra degli Ammannati ; edited and translated by Victoria Kirkham.
Contributors: Kirkham, Victoria.
Series: The other voice in early modern Europe
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 493
Subjects: Italian poetry -- 16th century -- History and criticism.
Description: "Internationally known during her lifetime, Laura Battiferra (1523-89) was a gifted and prolific poet in Renaissance Florence. The author of nearly 400 sonnets remarkable for their subtlety, intricate narrative structure, and learned allusions, Battiferra, who was married to the prominent sculptor and architect Bartolomeo Ammannati, traversed an elite literary and artistic network, circulating her verse in a complex and intellectually fecund exchange with some of the most illustrious figures in Italian history. In this bilingual anthology, Victoria Kirkham gathers Battiferra's most essential writing, including newly discovered poems, which provide modern readers with a valuable social chronicle of sixteenth-century Italy and the courtly culture of the Counter-Reformation."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.