Shining Eyes, Cruel Fortune: The Lives and Loves of Italian Renaissance Women Poets [With CD]

by Irma B. Jaffe

Book Overview

This book presents the life stories of twelve extraordinary women who lived passionately and recorded in poetry their happiness and heartbreaks. Our English translations of their poetry are intended to make their poems seem to speak their thoughts, and we have included a CD with sixty-eight of their poems recorded in Italian literature, so that we do in fact hear their thoughts. In addition, several chapters take up some controversial art-historical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823221806
• ISBN13: 9780823221806
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 429 Pages
• Weight: 2.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.4" x 10.3"