Sleep by Amelia Rosselli
If you love Italy and are a fan of the artistic, architectural and musical treasures from her late Middle Ages and Renaissance, then you will love this dual language volume that will round out your familiarity with her by bringing you into the creative realm of her poetry. Melancolia poetica brings contemporary English readers into the literary consciousness of the vibrant, worldly and imaginative realm of the Italian late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Containing details of 52 male and female poets, Melancolia poetica provides a general historical introduction to this four-century span, along with a biographical and critical introduction to each author. With the original Italian facing discriminating renderings in English, Marc A. Cirigliano introduces us to a wide array of poets who include: Francesco d'Assisi, Giacomo da Lentino, Brunetto Latini, Guido Guinizzelli, La Compiuta Donzella, Guido Cavalcanti, Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio, Francesco Petrarca, Leonardo Bruni, Filippo Brunelleschi, Leon Battista Alberti, Lucrezia Tornabuoni de'Medici, Lorenzo de'Medici, Angelo Poliziano, Luigi Pulci, Jacopo Sannazzaro, Girolamo Savonarola, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarotti, Barbara Torelli, Ludovico Ariosto, Veronica Gambara, Vittoria Colonna and Annibale Caro.
Rosselli, Amelia: - A trilingual writer who described herself as a poet of exploration, Amelia Rosselli has only recently been recognized as one of the major European poets of the twentieth century. Born in Paris in 1930, she was the daughter of the martyred antifascist philosopher Carlo Rosselli and the British political activist Marion Cave. Raised in exile, in France, Switzerland, England, and the United States--in interviews, Rosselli remembers her years in the US with great fondness. She finally settled in Italy after the war, first in Florence and then in Rome. Except for a year she spent in London in the mid-seventies, Rosselli never left Rome, where she took her own life in 1996. The tragedy of her father's death and the loss of her mother when she was only nineteen were central to Rosselli, defining her in many different ways: from her trilingual language and cosmopolitan upbringing--though she thought of herself more as a refugee--to her political engagement and deep social consciousness. Rosselli was the author of seven collections of poetry (one, Sleep, in English), a translator of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath, among others, and an accomplished musicologist and musician who played the violin, the piano, and the organ. OBTUSE DIARY, Rosselli's only work in prose, was first published in its present format in 1990.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781681377834 |
| ISBN 10 | 1681377837 |
| Title | Sleep |
| Author | Amelia Rosselli |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The New York Review of Books, Inc |
| Year published | 2023-11-07 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
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