{"product_id":"courting-celebrity-9781487546403","title":"Courting Celebrity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1826 Angela Veronese, a gardener’s daughter, wrote and published the first modern autobiography by an Italian woman. Veronese’s account focuses on her unique experience as a peasant girl who came of age among the Venetian elite, and details how she attained a certain renown in and out of Italy by improvising, writing, and publishing her own lyrics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCourting Celebrity \u003c\/i\u003eis a bilingual annotated edition of Veronese’s autobiography. To better elucidate Veronese’s thinking, the book includes the autobiographical writing of another contemporary Italian poet, Teresa Bandettini, a well-known Tuscan poet-improviser. The book offers a substantial sample of Veronese’s poems, translated and in the original. These compositions, together with detailed bibliographical documentation, point to the success of Veronese’s autobiographical enterprise and offer an unparalleled view of both high society and popular culture at the time. \u003ci\u003eCourting \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments   Foreword   1. Angela Veronese   Notizie sulla vita di Aglaja Anassillide scritte da lei medesima   Information on the Life of Aglaja Anassillide, Written by Herself  Selected Poems by Angela Veronese  Biography of Angela Veronese Bio-Bibliography for Angela Veronese   2. Teresa Bandettini    “Autobiografia”  “Autobiography”  Biography of Teresa Bandettini   3. Contexts and Conclusions    4. Poem by Luigi Carrer Dedicated to Angela Veronese    Works Cited  Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739695493463,"sku":"9781487546403","price":23.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487546403.jpg?v=1720052924","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/courting-celebrity-9781487546403","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}