Urania: A Romance

by Giulia Bigolina

Book Overview

Presented for the first time in a critical English edition, Urania: A Romance provides modern readers with a rare glimpse into the novel and novella forms at a time when narrative genres were not only being invented but, in the hands of women like Giulia Bigolina (1518?-1569?), used as vehicles for literary experimentation.

The first known prose romance written by a woman in Italian, Bigolina's Urania centers on the monomaniacal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226048780
• ISBN13: 9780226048789
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 8.8"