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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815628703321

Autore

Labé Louise <1526?-1566.>

Titolo

Complete poetry and prose [[electronic resource] ] : a bilingual edition / / Louise Labé ; edited with critical introductions and prose translations by Deborah Lesko Baker and poetry translations by Annie Finch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2006

ISBN

1-281-12581-4

9786611125813

0-226-46716-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (308 p.)

Collana

The other voice in early modern Europe

Altri autori (Persone)

BakerDeborah Lesko

FinchAnnie <1956->

Disciplina

841/.3

Soggetti

POETRY / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-260) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Series Editors' Introduction -- Volume Editor's Introduction -- Volume Editor's Bibliography -- I. Prose -- II. Poetry -- Notes -- Series Editors' Bibliography -- Index of First Lines and Titles -- General Index

Sommario/riassunto

Thanks to her acclaimed volume of poetry and prose published in France in 1555, Louise Labé (1522-66) remains one of the most important and influential women writers of the Continental Renaissance. Best known for her exquisite collection of love sonnets, Labé played off the Petrarchan male tradition with wit and irony, and her elegies respond with lyric skill to predecessors such as Sappho and Ovid. The first complete bilingual edition of this singular and broad-ranging female author, Complete Poetry and Prose also features the only translations of Labé's sonnets to follow the exacting rhyme patterns of the originals and the first rhymed translation of Labé's elegies in their entirety.