| Description |
1 online resource (xxx, 493 pages) |
| Series |
The other voice in early modern Europe |
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Other voice in early modern Europe.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Series Editors' Introductions; Moderata Fonte and the Genre of Women's Chivalric Romances; Volume Editor's Bibliography; Note on Translation; Floridoro: A Chivalric Romance; Prefatory Sonnets/Prefatory Sonnets; Canto 1; Canto 2; Canto 3; Canto 4; Canto 5; Canto 6; Canto 7; Canto 8; Canto 9; Canto 10; Canto 11; Canto 12; Canto 13; Appendix: Cantos 1 and 2 and excerpts from Cantos 4. 8, 11, and 13 in Italian; Series Editors' Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
The first original chivalric poem written by an Italian woman, Floridoro imbues a strong feminist ethos into a hypermasculine genre. Dotted with the usual characteristics?dark forests, illusory palaces, enchanted islands, seductive sorceresses?Floridoro is the story of the two greatest knights of a bygone age: the handsome Floridoro, who risks everything for love, and the beautiful Risamante, who helps women in distress while on a quest for her inheritance. Throughout, Moderata Fonte (1555?92) vehemently defends women?s capacity to rival male prowess in traditionally male-dominated spheres. An |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Appendix contains parts of the text of Floridoro in Italian |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Fonte, Moderata, 1555-1592. Floridoro
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Romances, Italian -- 16th century -- Translations into English.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Finucci, Valeria.
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Kisacky, Julia, 1965-
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| LC no. |
2006011167 |
| ISBN |
0226256790 (electronic bk.) |
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9780226256795 (electronic bk.) |
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