TY - GEN T1 - The sword and the pen : women, politics, and poetry in sixteenth-century Siena T2 - Book collections on Project MUSE. A1 - Eisenbichler, Konrad LA - English LA - Italian PP - Notre Dame, Ind. PB - University of Notre Dame Press YR - 2012 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_ocn826442774 AB - "In The Sword and the Pen: Women, Politics, and Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Siena, Konrad Eisenbichler analyzes the work of Sienese women poets, in particular, Aurelia Petrucci, Laudomia Forteguerri, and Virginia Salvi, during the first half of the sixteenth century up to the fall of Siena in 1555. Eisenbichler sets forth a complex and original interpretation of the experiences of these three educated noblewomen and their contributions to contemporary culture in Siena by looking at the emergence of a new lyric tradition and the sonnets they exchanged among themselves and with their male contemporaries. Through the analysis of their poems and various book dedications to them, Eisenbichler reveals the intersection of poetry, politics, and sexuality, as well as the gendered dialogue that characterized Siena's literary environment during the late Renaissance. Eisenbichler also examines other little-known women poets and their relationship to the cultural environment of Siena, underlining the exceptional role of the city of Siena as the most important center of women's writing in the first half of the sixteenth century in Italy, and probably in all of Europe. This innovative contribution to the field of late Renaissance and early modern Italian and women's studies rescues from near oblivion a group of literate women who were celebrated by contemporary scholars but who have been largely ignored today, both because of a dearth of biographical information about them and because of a narrow evaluation of their poetry. Eisenbichler's analysis and reproduction of many of their poems in Italian and modern English translation are an invaluable contribution not only to Italian cultural studies but also to women's studies."--Project Muse. OP - 400 NO - Includes analysis and reproduction of many poems in Italian and modern English translation. CN - PQ4103 .E47 2012eb SN - 9780268078652 SN - 0268078653 SN - 9780268158576 SN - 0268158576 SN - 9780268027766 SN - 0268027765 KW - Italian poetry : Translations into English. KW - Italian poetry : Italy : Siena. KW - Italian poetry : 16th century. KW - Italian poetry : Italy : Siena : History and criticism. KW - Women and literature : Italy : History : 16th century. KW - Italian poetry : Women authors : History and criticism. KW - Italian poetry : 16th century : History and criticism. KW - Italy : Politics and government : 16th century. KW - Poésie italienne : Italie : Sienne. KW - Poésie italienne : 16e siècle. KW - Poésie italienne : Italie : Sienne : Histoire et critique. KW - Femmes et littérature : Italie : Histoire : 16e siècle. KW - Poésie italienne : 16e siècle : Histoire et critique. KW - Italie : Politique et gouvernement : 16e siècle. KW - POETRY : Continental European. KW - Italian poetry KW - Italian poetry : Women authors KW - Politics and government KW - Women and literature KW - Italy KW - Italy : Siena KW - Frau KW - Literatur KW - Politik KW - Siena KW - 1500-1599 KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - History KW - Translations ER -