Chiara Matraini ; edited and translated by Elaine Maclachlan ; with an introduction by Giovanna Rabitti.
A bilingual ed.
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2007.
1 online resource (xxx, 275 pages) :
illustrations
The other voice in early modern Europe
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgments; 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.
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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.
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