The Complete Poems
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The Complete Poems

The 1554 Edition of the "Rime," a Bilingual Edition

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The Complete Poems

The 1554 Edition of the "Rime," a Bilingual Edition

About this book

Gaspara Stampa (1523?-1554) is one of the finest female poets ever to write in Italian. Although she was lauded for her singing during her lifetime, her success and critical reputation as a poet emerged only after her verse was republished in the early eighteenth century. Her poetry runs the gamut of human emotion, ranging from ecstasy over a consummated love affair to despair at its end. While these tormented works and their multiple male addressees have led to speculation that Stampa may have been one of Venice's famous courtesans, they can also be read as a rebuttal of typical assumptions about women's roles. Championed by Rainer Maria Rilke, among others, she has more recently been celebrated by feminist scholars for her distinctive and original voice and her challenge to convention.

The first complete translation of Stampa into English, this volume collects all of her passionate and lyrical verse. It is also the first modern critical edition of her poems, and in restoring the original sequence of the 1554 text, it allows readers the opportunity to encounter Stampa as she intended. Jane Tylus renders Stampa's verse in precise and graceful English translations, allowing a new generation of students and scholars of poetry, Renaissance literature, and music history to rediscover this incipiently modern Italian poet.

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this 
is 
the 
“missing” 
Guercino, 
we 
must 
remember 
that 
the 
painter 
was 
born 
in 
1591, 
four 
decades 
after 
Stampa’s 
death. 
Portrait 
or 
not, 
O’Donoghue 
suggests 
that 
Guercino’s 
allegorical 
figure 
for 
poetry 
may 
be 
based 
on 
yet 
a 
prior 
source 
that 
provides 
what 
she 
calls 
the 
“ultimate 
sixteenth-century 
example” 
of 
the 
Muses, 
with 
“their 
attributes 
of 
musical 
instruments, 
books, 
scrolls, 
quills, 
and 
gesturing 
finger”: 
Sappho 
from 
Raphael’s 
Mount 
Parnassus
in 
the 
Stanza 
of 
the 
Signatura 
in 
the 
Vatican 
(see 
fig. 
4). 
Her 
laurel 
wreath, 
her 
bared 
shoulder, 
her 
half-unfurled 
scroll 
revealing 
her 
name—the 
only 
such 
identification 
in 
the 
entire 
painting—the 
lute 
that 
she 
brandishes 
as 
Figure 
1.
Engraving 
of 
Gaspara 
Stampa 
(?) 
on 
the 
design 
of 
Daniel 
Antonio 
Bertoli. 
From 
the 
1738 
volume 
of 
the 
Rime,
ed. 
Bergalli 
and 
Collalto. 
Photograph: 
© 
DeA 
Picture 
Library 
/ 
Art 
Resource, 
New 
York.
[To 
view 
this 
image, 
refer 
to 
the 
print 
version 
of 
this 
title.] 

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Series Editors' Introduction
  4. Volume Editor's Introduction
  5. Volume Editor’s Bibliography
  6. The Rime (1554)
  7. Appendix A: Poems Not Included in the 1554 Anthology
  8. Appendix B: Poems to Stampa from Poets She Addresses in the Rime
  9. Appendix C: Concordance
  10. Notes
  11. Series Editors' Bibliography
  12. Index of First Lines in Italian
  13. General Index