Substituting for Laura: Objects of Desire for Renaissance Women Poets

Smarr, Janet Levarie

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“…11 The literature is voluminous. In English, see (Vickers 1981;Jones 1990Jones , 2015Smarr 2001;Cox 2005aCox , 2005bCox , 2008Cox , 2011Cox , 2013. In Italian, see (Chemello 1983(Chemello , 1993(Chemello , 2003(Chemello , 2018Zancan 1983Zancan , 1986Zancan , 1998Zancan , 2012Sapegno 2003Sapegno , 2018Ronchetti and Sapegno 2007;Crivelli et al 2005;Santosuosso 2018).…”

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Between Repentance and Desire: Women Poets and the Word in Early Modern Italy

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2023

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In early modern Italy, lyric poets of spiritual verse experimented with engaging and depicting the divine Word in novel ways. They aestheticized bodies, including that of Christ, and they imagined eroticized encounters between themselves and the Word made flesh. This article examines the sensual spiritual poetry of three early modern Italian women who, between 1530 and 1630, dedicated themselves to crafting and reinvigorating the poetic word and to expressing and (re)presenting the divine Word. Exploring the introspective and subjective spiritual lyrics of Vittoria Colonna (1492–1547), Laura Battiferri (1523–1589), and Francesca Turini Bufalini (1553–1641) in the context of the Italian literary Renaissance and Counter-Reformation, it aims to highlight and to elucidate the conflation of the sacred and the erotic in their verse. In so doing, this article reveals how these early modern female poets deployed the sensual strategically in their verse to elevate the erotic and how they raised the Italian religious lyric to new literary heights by spiritualizing the dominant poetic idiom.

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The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch

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t h e c a m b r i d g e c o m p a n i o n t o p e t r a r c h Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 1304-1374), best known for his influential collection of Italian lyric poetry dedicated to his beloved Laura, was also a remarkable classical scholar, a deeply religious thinker, and a philosopher of secular ethics. In this wide-ranging study, chapters by leading scholars view Petrarch's life through his works, from the epic Africa to the "Letter to Posterity," from the Canzoniere to the vernacular epic Triumphi. Petrarch is revealed as the heir to the converging influences of classical cultural and medieval Christianity, but also to his great vernacular precursor, Dante, and his friend, collaborator, and sly critic, Boccaccio. Particular attention is given to Petrach's profound influence on the Humanist movement and on the courtly cult of vernacular love poetry, while raising important questions as to the validity of the distinction between medieval and modern, and what is lost in attempting to classify this elusive figure.

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Substituting for Laura: Objects of Desire for Renaissance Women Poets

Cited by 27 publications

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Between Repentance and Desire: Women Poets and the Word in Early Modern Italy

Between Repentance and Desire: Women Poets and the Word in Early Modern Italy

The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch

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