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The Sword and the Pen - Women, Politics, and Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Siena (Paperback)
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The Sword and the Pen - Women, Politics, and Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Siena (Paperback)
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In The Sword and the Pen: Women, Politics, and Poetry in
Sixteenth-Century Siena, Konrad Eisenbichler analyzes the work of
Sienese women poets, in particular, Aurelia Petrucci, Laudomia
Forteguerri, and Virginia Salvi, during the first half of the
sixteenth century up to the fall of Siena in 1555. Eisenbichler
sets forth a complex and original interpretation of the experiences
of these three educated noblewomen and their contributions to
contemporary culture in Siena by looking at the emergence of a new
lyric tradition and the sonnets they exchanged among themselves and
with their male contemporaries. Through the analysis of their poems
and various book dedications to them, Eisenbichler reveals the
intersection of poetry, politics, and sexuality, as well as the
gendered dialogue that characterized Siena's literary environment
during the late Renaissance. Eisenbichler also examines other
little-known women poets and their relationship to the cultural
environment of Siena, underlining the exceptional role of the city
of Siena as the most important center of women's writing in the
first half of the sixteenth century in Italy, and probably in all
of Europe. This innovative contribution to the field of late
Renaissance and early modern Italian and women's studies rescues
from near oblivion a group of literate women who were celebrated by
contemporary scholars but who have been largely ignored today, both
because of a dearth of biographical information about them and
because of a narrow evaluation of their poetry. Eisenbichler's
analysis and reproduction of many of their poems in Italian and
modern English translation are an invaluable contribution not only
to Italian cultural studies but also to women's studies.
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