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Urania [electronic resource] : a romance / Giulia Bigolina ; edited and translated by Valeria Finucci.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, Italian Original language: Italian Series: Other voice in early modern EuropePublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (xxxiii, 192 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780226048796 (electronic bk.)
  • 0226048799 (electronic bk.)
Uniform titles:
  • Urania, nella quale si contiene l'amore d'una giovane di tal nome. English
Contained works:
  • Bigolina, Giulia, d. 1569. Novella di Giulia Camposampiero et di Thesibaldo Valiani. English & Italian
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Urania.DDC classification:
  • 853/.4 22
LOC classification:
  • PQ4610.B58 U7313 2005eb
Online resources: Summary: Presented for the first time in a critical English edition, Urania: A Romance provides modern readers with a rare glimpse into the novel and novella forms at a time when narrative genres were not only being invented but, in the hands of women like Giulia Bigolina (1518?-1569?), used as vehicles for literary experimentation. The first known prose romance written by a woman in Italian, Bigolina's Urania centers on the monomaniacal love of a female character falling into melancholy when her beloved leaves her for a more beautiful woman. A tale that includes many of the conventions that would late.
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ელ.რესურსი ელ.რესურსი ეროვნული სამეცნიერო ბიბლიოთეკა 1 821.131.1-95 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available

"Novella di Giulia Camposampiero et di Tesibaldo Valiani" (Italian text with English translation): p. 46-68.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Presented for the first time in a critical English edition, Urania: A Romance provides modern readers with a rare glimpse into the novel and novella forms at a time when narrative genres were not only being invented but, in the hands of women like Giulia Bigolina (1518?-1569?), used as vehicles for literary experimentation. The first known prose romance written by a woman in Italian, Bigolina's Urania centers on the monomaniacal love of a female character falling into melancholy when her beloved leaves her for a more beautiful woman. A tale that includes many of the conventions that would late.

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