A01=Lucrezia Marinella
Author_Lucrezia Marinella
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byzantium
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chivalry
christianity
civilization
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conquest
conversion
courage
empire
epic poetry
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fourth crusade
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Product details
- ISBN 9780226505480
- Weight: 737g
- Dimensions: 16 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2009
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Lucrezia Marinella (1571-1653) is, by all accounts, a phenomenon in early modernity: a woman who wrote and published in many genres, whose fame shone brightly within and outside her native Venice, and whose voice is simultaneously original and reflective of her time and culture. In "Enrico"; or, "Byzantium Conquered", one of the most ambitious and rewarding of her numerous narrative works, Marinella demonstrates her skill as an epic poet. Now available for the first time in English translation, "Enrico" retells the story of the conquest of Byzantium in the Fourth Crusade. Marinella intersperses historical events in her account of the invasion with numerous invented episodes, drawing on the rich imaginative legacy of the chivalric romance. Fast-moving, colorful, and narrated with the zest that characterizes Marinella's other works, this poem is a great example of a woman engaging critically with a quintessentially masculine form and subject matter, writing in a genre in which the work of women poets was typically shunned.
Maria Galli Stampino is associate professor of Italian and French at the University of Miami. She is the author of Staging the Pastoral: Tasso's "Aminta" and the Emergence of Modern Western Theater.
