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Gaspara Stampa

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Gaspara Stampa , c.1523-1554, Italian poet. Plunged at an early age into the dissipated life of Venetian society, she became renowned for her brilliance and beauty. Her verse, which recounts an unhappy love affair, reflects her feelings of passionate tenderness and anguish. Author not available, STAMPA, GASPARA. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more

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...Poliziano, Tasso, and Guarini); the pastoral romance ( Sannazaro ); the Petrarchan lyric ( Bembo , Michelangelo , Gaspara Stampa ); imitations of classical tragedy ( Trissino ) and classical comedy (Ariosto, Machiavelli , Aretino ); dialogues... Read more

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	Conflitto tra carne e spirito: ambiguita neoplatonica nella poesia di Gaspara Stampa.(Critical Essay) ; ...dell'epoca. Un'aura di mistero avvolge Gaspara Stampa, una delle poetesse piu controverse...d'interpretazione della poetica della Stampa, insieme alla difficolta d'inserimento...dal suo sesso. L'originalita della Stampa e spesso stata collegata appunto... Read more
	Ideas of Heaven; Joan Silber ; ...In the story of the same name, Gaspara Stampa, the Venetian poet mentioned by...unexplained fever that killed Gaspara Stampa in Venice. Silber gives a profound...seems to be the point. Here's Gaspara Stampa, that famous lover, on the connection... Read more
	Paradises lost.(Book Review) ; ...fully in the central sequence, Gaspara Stampa and Ashes of Love. These stories...instance, the quoted lines in Gaspara Stampa, All my delight it is, and all...conviction borders on impossible, Gaspara Stampa is a tour de force; and the poetic... Read more
	SHORT TAKES ; ...spurned him sang the sonnets of Gaspara Stampa, a 16th- century poet of unrequited...a 1500s version of the blues." Gaspara, who has been spurned, writes obsessively...from Rilke, who wrote of Gaspara Stampa and her "fierce example of soaring... Read more
	Strong Voices, Weak History: Early Modern Writers and Canons in England, France, and Italy.(Book review) ; ...Louise Labe, and Catherine des Roches in France, Vittoria Colonna, Isotta Nogarola, Laura Battiferra, Tullia d'Aragona, Gaspara Stampa, and Veronica Franco in Italy, and Mary Sidney Herbert, Aemilia Lanyer, and Anne Askew in England. Beyond these useful... Read more
	Laura Battiferra and Her Literary Circle: An Anthology.(Book review) ; ...the wilderness, critical attention tended to be confined to poets capable of sustaining the label of transgressive (Gaspara Stampa, Michelangelo), or those with a narratable life (or death) capable of reflecting biographical drama onto the verse... Read more
	Joining stories of thwarted love.(BOOKS) ; ...ending of the story is breathtaking. Gaspara Stampa (1523-54) is the book's other historical...protagonist was a real person: Some call Stampa the greatest female poet of the...Rime 43. In Miss Silber's story, Stampa comes to life. My sister said I... Read more
	Recupera Clariond lucidez de Merini.(Cultura) ; ...Dios, San Agustín, Abelardo, los hombres, los besos y a las grandes poetas eróticas del Renacimiento como Gaspara Stampa o Verónica Franco o de la Pléyade de Francia . Jeannette Clariond, poeta y traductora. Read more
	A look at the National Book Awards finalists / Fiction.(FEATURES)(BOOKS) ; ...to tell his own story (and redeem himself, to a degree); a Venetian Renaissance poet tells her tale of longing in Gaspara Stampa, then reappears in Ashes of Love in a book that another character reads, distraught over being deserted by his girlfriend... Read more
	E-sources on women & gender. ; ...Shikibu, Anna Comnena, Clemence of Barking, Janabai, Laila Akhyaliyya, Perchta of Rozmberk, Laura Cereta, Mirabai, Gaspara Stampa, and Gluckel von Hameln--and other women who wrote before 1700--and would like a taste of their work in translation... Read more

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	Medusa's gaze; essays on gender, literature, and aesthetics in the Italian Renaissance; in honor of Robert J. Rodini.(ROMANCE LITERATURES)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
	Ideas of Heaven: a Ring of Stories.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
	Janet Levarie Smarr and Daria Valentini, eds. Italian Women and the City.(Book Review)

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