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Labé, Louise, 1526?-1566.

Complete poetry and prose a bilingual edition / [electronic resource] : Louise Labé ; edited with critical introductions and prose translations by Deborah Lesko Baker and poetry translations by Annie Finch. - 1st ed. - University of Chicago Press, c2006. - 1 online resource (xxxi, 274 p.) : ill. - The other voice in early modern Europe . - Other voice in early modern Europe. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-260) and index.

Acknowledgments; Series Editors' Introduction; Volume Editor's Introduction; Volume Editor's Bibliography; I Prose; II Poetry; Notes; Series Editors' Bibliography; Index of First Lines and Titles; General Index;

Thanks to her acclaimed volume of poetry and prose published in France in 1555, Louise Labé (1522-66) remains one of the most important and influential women writers of the Continental Renaissance. Best known for her exquisite collection of love sonnets, Labé played off the Petrarchan male tradition with wit and irony, and her elegies respond with lyric skill to predecessors such as Sappho and Ovid. The first complete bilingual edition of this singular and broad-ranging female author, Complete Poetry and Prose also features the only translations of Labé's sonnets to follow the exacting rhyme p.


Text in English and French.

ISBN: 9780226467160 (electronic bk.) 0226467163 (electronic bk.) 9780226467146 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0226467147 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780226467153 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226467155 (cloth : alk. paper)

Subjects--Personal Names:
Labé, Louise, 1526?-1566 --Translations into English.
Labé Louise, 1526?-1566.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Electronic books.
POETRY--Continental European.

Subjects--Index Terms: ლიტერატურა-- ფრანგული პოეზია

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PQ1628.L2 / A23 2006eb

Dewey Class. No.: 841/.3

Universal Decimal Class. No.: 821.133.1.09