Browsing by Subject "Womens literature"

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    Egeria, testimone dello scambio epistolare tra donne nell'antichità cristiana.
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2019) Bartolotta, Salvatore; Tormo Ortiz, Mercedes
    Egeria was a traveler of antiquity, mulier fortis, traveler of race. Her trip took her to the end of the world, with a double reason: historical and spiritual. She left his homeland, in the Spanish Gallaecia, to his community, the uenerabiles sorores, with the Bible as a guide on his way. For three years, at the end of the fourth century, it will travel through the Holy Land and the Near East with only one objective: the study of the Bible. The trip of Egeria is narrated in a manuscript called Peregrinatio Egeriae, found by Gamurrini in 1884 in the Italian city of Arezzo, which is actually a letter announcing a new literary style: travel literature.
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    La poesia lugubre di Margherita Costa nella corte medicea del Seicento.
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2023) García Aguilar, Mónica
    In the 17th century, the lugubrious poetry constituted both a thematic and retorical renewal of the centuries-old Petrarchan tradition. Already at the end of the 16th century, lamenting the death of illustrious fgures became one of the fxed themes characteristic of Baroque poetic anthologies. Margherita Costa’s Selva di Cipressi is a clear example of this literary style. This poetic collection combines encomiastic poems composed for the death of illustrious personages of the time with other bucolic compositions. This contribution proposes an analysis not only of the lyrical style that Costa employs in her work, but also examines the socio-political and cultural context of the Medici Court that the Roman poetess wanted to show the 17th century audience.