Gaspara Stampa

GASPARA STAMPA (1523-54) is considered the greatest woman poet of the Italian Renaissance and she is regarded by many as the greatest Italian woman poet of any age. A highly skilled musician Stampa produced some of the most musical poetry in the Italian language. Her sonnets of unrequited love speak in a language of honest passion and profound loss. They look forward to the women writers of the nineteenth century and are a milestone in women's literature.This dual-language edition of selected poems presents along with the Italian original the first English translation of Stampa's work. It includes an introduction to the poet and her work a note on the translation and provides the reader with notes to the poems a bibliography and a first-line index.DUAL-LANGUAGE POETRYIntroduction bibliography first-line index.