Bigolina, Giulia, d. 1569.

Urania a romance / [electronic resource] : Giulia Bigolina ; edited and translated by Valeria Finucci. - University of Chicago Press, 2005. - 1 online resource (xxxiii, 192 p.) - The other voice in early modern Europe . - Other voice in early modern Europe. .

"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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Bigolina, Giulia, d. 1569. Urania, nella quale si contiene l'amore d'una giovane di tal nome.
Bigolina, Giulia, d. 1569. English. Urania, nella quale si contiene l'amore d'una giovane di tal nome.


Italian literature--16th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--Italian.

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