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Scanderbeide
The first historical heroic epic authored by a woman, Scanderbeide recounts the exploits of fifteenth-century Albanian warrior-prince George Scanderbeg and his war of resistance against the Ottoman sultanate. Filled with scenes of intense and suspenseful battles contrasted with romantic episodes, Scanderbeide combines the action and fantasy characteristic of the genre with analysis of its characters’ motivations. In selecting a military campaign as her material and epic poetry as her medium, Margherita Sarrocchi (1560?–1617) not only engages in the masculine subjects of political conflict and warfare but also tackles a genre that was, until that point, the sole purview of men. First published posthumously in 1623, Scanderbeide reemerges here in an adroit English prose translation that maintains the suspense of the original text and gives ample context to its rich cultural implications.
The Prodigious Muse
In her award-winning, critically acclaimed Women's Writing in Italy, 1400--1650, Virginia Cox chronicles the history of women writers in early modern Italy -- who they were, what they wrote, where they fit in society, and how their status changed during this period. In this book, Cox examines more closely one particular moment in this history, in many ways the most remarkable for the richness and range of women's literary output. A widespread critical notion sees Italian women's writing as a phenomenon specific to the peculiar literary environment of the mid-sixteenth century, and most scholars assume that a reactionary movement such as the Counter-Reformation was unlikely to spur its develo...
Bollettino dei Musei Comunali di Roma N.S. XXII 2008
FRANCESCO PAOLO ARATA Le Vittorie alate del Museo Capitolino: un monumento antico dimenticato CRISTIANA PARRETTI Il ritratto di Giacinta Orsini Boncompagni Ludovisi di Camillo Loreti nel Museo diRoma PATRIZIA MASINI "Ritratti" di animali: un Daino di Wenzel Peter del Museo di Roma SIMONETTA TOZZI Tre acquerelli di Samuel Prout della collezione Lemmerman al Museo di Roma FABIO BENEDETTUCCI Giuseppe Barberi. Studi per Ajaccio e altri disegni dal Museo Napoleonico ANTONIO RODINÒ DI MIGLIONE Vicende di una tabacchiera da Napoleone a Pio IX (... ed oltre) MARCO PUPILLO Antonio Canova al Museo Napoleonico. 1. Iconografia canoviana ERNESTO CAPANNA Le aquile di Bonaparte: Carlo-Luciano principe di ...
The Birth of Feminism
In this illuminating work, surveying 300 years and two nations, Sarah Gwyneth Ross demonstrates how the expanding ranks of learned women in the Renaissance era presented the first significant challenge to the traditional definition of "woman" in the West. An experiment in collective biography and intellectual history, The Birth of Feminism demonstrates that because of their education, these women laid the foundation for the emancipation of womankind.
