Laura Battiferra and Her Literary Circle : An Anthology (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe)
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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 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.
Laura Battiferra and Her Literary Circle: An Anthology (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe),Laura Battiferra degli Ammannati,Victoria Kirkham,University Of Chicago Press,0226039234,16th century,Continental European,History and criticism,Italian poetry,Literary Collections,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature: Classics,Renaissance,Europe,European history: c 1500 to c 1750,Literary Collections / Continental European,Poetry anthologies: 16th to 18th centuries
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