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Partenia, a Pastoral Play: A Bilingual Edition Volume 22 - Torelli Benedetti, Barbara, and Sampson, Lisa (Translated by), and Burgess-Van Aken, Barbara (Translated by)
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The Other Voice 's edition of Barbara Torelli's pastoral drama Partenia (c. 1586) is a groundbreaking contribution to the study of early modern Italian literature and women's writing. This is the first ever print edition of the earliest secular play by an Italian woman, acclaimed at the time of its composition--the drama theorist Angelo Ingegneri placed it on a par with Tasso's Aminta and Guarini's Pastor fido --but long forgotten, to the extent that it was believed lost until the early twentieth century, when the ...

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Partenia, a Pastoral Play: A Bilingual Edition Volume 22 2013, Iter Press

ISBN-13: 9780772721365

Bilingual edition

Trade paperback