women's writing in counter-reformation Italy
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Cox, Virginia
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- Z EUR 54 2011 - B
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, literatuur, Italië, 16e eeuw, 17e eeuw
- Description
- Cox argues that women’s writing flourished in the period following 1560, reaching beyond the customary 'feminine' genres of lyric, poetry, and letters to experiment with pastoral drama, chivalric romance, tragedy, and epic. There were few widely practiced genres in this eclectic phase of Italian literature to which women did not turn their hand. .In addition to familiar, secular works by authors such as Isabella Andreini, Moderata Fonte, and Lucrezia Marinella, Cox also discusses important writings that have largely escaped critical interest, including Fonte’s and Marinella’s vivid religious narratives, an unfinished Amazonian epic by Maddalena Salvetti, and the startlingly fresh autobiographical lyrics of Francesca Turina Bufalini.