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"Partenia is unusual within the spectrum of Italian pastoral drama for its moral austerity and its spiritual overtones; a strange, haunting work, it well exemplifies the new directions Italian literature was taking at this time under the influence of Counter-Reformation religious fervor, and provides a fascinating counterpoint to the better-known pastorals of Isabella Andreini, Maddalena Campiglia, and Mary Wroth. Lisa Sampson and Barbara Burgess-Van Aken’s superb introduction, the fruit of intensive archival research, contains much new information on Torelli and her literary and intellectual context in Parma, and expertly locates Partenia within the traditions of pastoral drama and of late-Renaissance Italian literature as a whole."
* Virginia Cox, New York University *

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Key to Abbreviations xi
List of Illustrations xiii
Introduction 1
Note on the edition of Partenia 53
Illustrations 65
Partenia, a Pastoral Play 69
Appendix A 289
Appendix B 315
Bibliography 327
Index 347

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      Publisher: University of Toronto Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/03/2013
      ISBN13: 9780772721365, 978-0772721365
      ISBN10: 077272136X

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "Partenia is unusual within the spectrum of Italian pastoral drama for its moral austerity and its spiritual overtones; a strange, haunting work, it well exemplifies the new directions Italian literature was taking at this time under the influence of Counter-Reformation religious fervor, and provides a fascinating counterpoint to the better-known pastorals of Isabella Andreini, Maddalena Campiglia, and Mary Wroth. Lisa Sampson and Barbara Burgess-Van Aken’s superb introduction, the fruit of intensive archival research, contains much new information on Torelli and her literary and intellectual context in Parma, and expertly locates Partenia within the traditions of pastoral drama and of late-Renaissance Italian literature as a whole."
      * Virginia Cox, New York University *

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments ix
      Key to Abbreviations xi
      List of Illustrations xiii
      Introduction 1
      Note on the edition of Partenia 53
      Illustrations 65
      Partenia, a Pastoral Play 69
      Appendix A 289
      Appendix B 315
      Bibliography 327
      Index 347

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