Selected Poetry and Prose

by Chiara Matraini

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226510859
• ISBN13: 9780226510859
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.0"