A01=Louise Labe
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Author_Louise Labe
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debate of folly and love
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louise labe
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petrarchan sonnet
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Product details
- ISBN 9780226467153
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 16 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 15 May 2006
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Louise Labe (1522-66) remains one of the most important and influential women writers of the Renaissance. Best known for her exquisite collection of love sonnets, Labe played off the Petrarchan male tradition with wit and irony, and her elegies respond with lyric skill to predecessors such as Sappho and Ovid. The first complete bilingual edition of this singular female author, "Complete Poetry and Prose" also features the only translations of Labe's sonnets to follow the exacting rhyme patterns of the originals and the first rhymed translation of Labe's elegies in their entirety.
Deborah Lesko Baker is associate professor and chair of French at Georgetown University. Annie Finch is the director of the Stonecoast Low-Residency Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program at the University of Southern Maine.
