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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Hairston has constructed a full personal, cultural and literary biography for d’Aragona, using newly discovered letters, archival material of other kinds, and contemporary theory about gender in women’s writing. Footnotes establish the intricacy of Tullia’s intellectual networks and her courting of intellectuals in rhyme. Hairston includes poems written to d’Aragona, including Girolamo Muzio’s long pastoral,
Tirrhenia. She addresses with tact the question of how sexual Tullia’s relationships were with her various interlocutors. At times, as she says, one just can’t know, but that the issue is much less important than the poems themselves. I agree wholeheartedly. This is the editor Tullia has been waiting for: an indefatigable researcher, a creative biographer, and a precise and appreciative literary critic."
* Ann Rosalind Jones, Smith College *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Editorial Norms and Note on Translation 55
Abbreviations 59
Poems by Signora Tullia di Aragona and by Others to Her (1547) 61
Miscellaneous Poems by Tullia d’Aragona and Exchanges with Her 253
Letters 287
Index of First Lines in Italian 307
Structure of the Poems 315
Bibliography 319
Index 345
