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Flori, a Pastoral Drama
Maddalena Campiglia
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Description for Flori, a Pastoral Drama
Paperback. One of the first pastoral dramas published by an Italian woman, 'Flori' has been comparatively neglected by scholars. The editors argue that 'Flori' contains an intensity of focus on the ideals of female autonomy that makes it a rewarding study both as literature and as a historical document. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 506.
One of the first pastoral dramas published by an Italian woman, Flori is Maddalena Campiglia's most substantial surviving literary work and one of the earliest known examples of secular dramatic writing by a woman in Europe. Although acclaimed in her day, Campiglia (1553-95) has not benefited from the recent wave of scholarship that has done much to enhance the visibility and reputation of contemporaries such as Isabella Andreini, Moderata Fonte, and Veronica Franco. As this bilingual, first-ever critical edition of Flori illustrates, this neglect is decidedly unwarranted. Flori is a work of great literary and cultural interest, noteworthy in particular ... Read more
One of the first pastoral dramas published by an Italian woman, Flori is Maddalena Campiglia's most substantial surviving literary work and one of the earliest known examples of secular dramatic writing by a woman in Europe. Although acclaimed in her day, Campiglia (1553-95) has not benefited from the recent wave of scholarship that has done much to enhance the visibility and reputation of contemporaries such as Isabella Andreini, Moderata Fonte, and Veronica Franco. As this bilingual, first-ever critical edition of Flori illustrates, this neglect is decidedly unwarranted. Flori is a work of great literary and cultural interest, noteworthy in particular ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226092232
SKU
V9780226092232
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About Maddalena Campiglia
Virginia Cox is professor of Italian at New York University. She is the author of The Renaissance Dialogue: Literary Dialogue in Its Social and Political Contexts and the editor and translator of Moderata Fonte's The Worth of Women, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press. Lisa Sampson is lecturer in Italian at the University of Reading and the ... Read more
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