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Record Nr.

UNINA9910964999803321

Autore

Campiglia Maddalena <1553-1595.>

Titolo

Flori, a pastoral drama / / edited and with an introduction and notes by Virginia Cox and Lisa Sampson ; translated by Virginia Cox

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2004

ISBN

9786611125370

9781281125378

1281125377

9780226092249

0226092240

Edizione

[A bilingual ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 p.)

Collana

The other voice in early modern Europe

Altri autori (Persone)

CoxVirginia

SampsonLisa

Disciplina

851/.4

Soggetti

Pastoral drama, Italian

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- THE OTHER VOICE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE: INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES -- VOLUME EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION -- VOLUME EDITOR'S BIBLIOGRAPHY -- FLORI, FAVOLA BOSCARECCIA -- APPENDIX A: NOTE ON THE ITALIAN TEXT -- APPENDIX B: MADDALENA CAMPIGLI'S EMBLEM AND PORTRAIT -- NOTES -- SERIES EDITOR'S BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

One of the first pastoral dramas published by an Italian woman, Flori is Maddalena Campiglia's most substantial surviving literary work and one of the earliest known examples of secular dramatic writing by a woman in Europe. Although acclaimed in her day, Campiglia (1553-95) has not benefited from the recent wave of scholarship that has done much to enhance the visibility and reputation of contemporaries such as Isabella Andreini, Moderata Fonte, and Veronica Franco. As this bilingual, first-ever critical edition of Flori illustrates, this neglect is decidedly unwarranted. Flori is a work of great literary and cultural interest, noteworthy in particular for the intensity of its focus on the experiences and perceptions of its female protagonists and their ideals of female autonomy. Flori will be read by those involved in the study of early



modern literature and drama, women's studies, and the study of gender and sexuality in this period.