Selected Poems and Translations: A Bilingual Edition (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe) (Italian Edition)

Madeleine de l'Aubespine (1546–1596), the toast of courtly and literary circles in sixteenth-century Paris, penned beautiful love poems to famous women of her day. The well-connected daughter and wife of prominent French secretaries of state, l'Aubespine was celebrated by her male peers for her erotic lyricism and scathingly original voice. Rather than adopt the conventional self-effacement that defined female poets of the time, l'Aubespine's speakers are sexual, dominant, and defiant; and her subjects are women who are able to manipulate, rebuke, and even humiliate men. Unavailable in English until now and only recently identified from scattered and sometimes misattributed sources, l'Aubespine's poems and literary works are presented here in Anna Klosowska's vibrant translation. This collection, which features one of the first French lesbian sonnets as well as reproductions of l'Aubespine's poetic translations of Ovid and Ariosto, will be heralded by students and scholars in literature, history, and women's studies as an important addition to the Renaissance canon. CONTENTS......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 10 Series Editors’ Introduction......Page 12 Volume Editor’s Introduction......Page 32 Volume Editor’s Bibliography......Page 66 Selected Poems......Page 71 Appendix A: Translation of Ovid’s Heroides, Second Epistle......Page 110 Appendix B: Translation from Ariosto’s Orlando furioso, Canto 1......Page 122 Series Editors’ Bibliography......Page 140 Index of First Lines and Titles......Page 160 General Index......Page 164 Selected Poems -- App. A : Translation Of Ovid's Heroides, Second Epistle -- App. B : Translation From Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, Canto 1. Madeleine De L'aubespine ; Edited And Translated By Anna Kłosowska. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.