{"product_id":"partenia-a-pastoral-play-a-bilingual-edition-volume-22-other-voice-in-early-modern-europe-the-toronto-9780772721365","title":"Partenia a Pastoral Play a Bilingual Edition","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePartenia\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ePartenia\u003c\/i\u003e within the traditions of pastoral drama and of late-Renaissance Italian literature as a whole.\"\u003cbr\u003e   * Virginia Cox, New York University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Key to Abbreviations xi\u003cbr\u003e List of Illustrations xiii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e Note on the edition of Partenia 53\u003cbr\u003e Illustrations 65\u003cbr\u003e Partenia, a Pastoral Play 69\u003cbr\u003e Appendix A 289\u003cbr\u003e Appendix B 315\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 327\u003cbr\u003e Index 347","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404894183767,"sku":"9780772721365","price":35.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/partenia-a-pastoral-play-a-bilingual-edition-volume-22-other-voice-in-early-modern-europe-the-toronto-9780772721365","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}