Shining Eyes, Cruel Fortune
Jaffe, Irma B.; Colombardo, Gernando
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Description for Shining Eyes, Cruel Fortune
Mixed media pr. Presents the life stories of twelve extraordinary women who lived passionately and recorded in poetry their happiness and heartbreaks. Num Pages: 429 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2ADT; 3JB; BGH; DCQ; DSBD; DSC; HBJD; HBLH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 261 x 187 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1205.
This book presents the life stories of twelve extraordinary women who lived passionately and recorded in poetry their happiness and heartbreaks. Our English translations of their poetry are intended to make their poems seem to speak their thoughts, and we have included a CD with sixty-eight of their poems recorded in Italian literature, so that we do in fact hear their thoughts. In addition, several chapters take up some controversial art-historical problems centered on one or another of the women, suggesting possible solutions. This copiously illustrated, interdisciplinary book of 239 poems—“poetry-in-context”--- is not an anthology; together with the CD of ... Read more
This book presents the life stories of twelve extraordinary women who lived passionately and recorded in poetry their happiness and heartbreaks. Our English translations of their poetry are intended to make their poems seem to speak their thoughts, and we have included a CD with sixty-eight of their poems recorded in Italian literature, so that we do in fact hear their thoughts. In addition, several chapters take up some controversial art-historical problems centered on one or another of the women, suggesting possible solutions. This copiously illustrated, interdisciplinary book of 239 poems—“poetry-in-context”--- is not an anthology; together with the CD of ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
429
Condition
New
Number of Pages
429
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823221806
SKU
V9780823221806
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About Jaffe, Irma B.; Colombardo, Gernando
Irma B. Jaffe’s books include Joseph Stella; Baroque Art and the Jesuit Contribution; The Italian Presence in American Art; Shining Eyes, Cruel Fortune: The Lives and Loves of Italian Renaissance Women Poets; and Giuseppe Betussi and Eleanora Falletti, Polygraph and Poet at the Dawn of Popular Literature. The recipient of many awards and grants, she founded the department of Art ... Read more
Reviews for Shining Eyes, Cruel Fortune
. . . this is women's history in its most pure form
—H-Net Reviews
especially suitable for classroom use
—H-Net Reviews
Ambitious and satisfying...deeply relevant to the project of recovering the woman and the poem. The accompanying CD of selected poems read in Italian by various voices is a superb idea...opens the door to its subject ... Read more
—H-Net Reviews
especially suitable for classroom use
—H-Net Reviews
Ambitious and satisfying...deeply relevant to the project of recovering the woman and the poem. The accompanying CD of selected poems read in Italian by various voices is a superb idea...opens the door to its subject ... Read more