A Tradition Recovered: Women in Italy (1540-60) and France (1700)

FAIN: RZ-50026-03

Albert Rabil, Jr
Unaffiliated independent scholar

Four edited translations into English of works of Italian and French women writers Vittoria Colonna (1492-1547), Tullia d'Aragona (1510-1565) and Gabrielle Suchon (1631-1704). (12 months)

Six editors/translators are editing and translating four texts (three in books printed at the time of writing, one in a presentation manuscript) by women writing in Italy and France between 1540 and 1700. Two of the texts are religious, two are secular; two are written in poetry, two in prose. These four texts help make visible the existence not only of women writers but also of a female tradition of writing, certainly within national boundaries but also possibly across them. Going far beyond the "querelle des femmes" tradition, they bring female perspectives to bear in Petrarchan and epic poetry and in moral philosophy (the latter challenging the exclusion of women from education and the restriction of women's social choices either to marriage or the convent). These four translations are part of a much larger project of textual/authorial recovery approved for publication by the University of Chicago Press. The series stands now at sixty-eight volumes and promises to grow even larger.

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Title: In Dialogue with the Other Voice in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Literary and Social Contexts for Women's Writing
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Editor: Albert Rabil, Jr.
Abstract: This collection of essays and texts surveys the culture and intellectual context of early modern Italy in order to render more intelligible the writing of Italian women. The role of women in society and the persistent misogyny even of the most pro-woman texts are explored in the essays, and the recent critical debates are examined. These translations make available in English a selection of male-authored texts that directly or indirectly elicited the spirited responses of women, for which the volume is aptly entitled “In Dialogue.” A classroom resource, the volume is an addition to The Other Voice: Toronto series
Year: 2011
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/in-dialogue-with-the-other-voice-in-sixteenth-century-italy-literary-and-social-contexts-for-womens-writing/oclc/727455291&referer=brief_results
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Secondary URL: http://crrs.ca/publications/ov11/
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Publisher: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies/Iter, Inc.
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 9780772720856

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Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/sonnets-for-michelangelo-a-bilingual-edition/oclc/57342053&referer=brief_results
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Secondary URL: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo3534662.html
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Type: Translation
Type: Scholarly Edition
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Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/who-is-mary-three-early-modern-women-on-the-idea-of-the-virgin-mary/oclc/650524774&referer=brief_results
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Secondary URL: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo5896605.html
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