Lucrezia Marinella (1571–1653) is, by all accounts, a phenomenon in early modernity: a woman who wrote and published in many genres, whose fame shone brightly within and outside her native Venice, and whose voice is simultaneously original and reflective of her time and culture. In Enrico; or, Byzantium Conquered, one of the most ambitious and rewarding of her numerous narrative works, Marinella demonstrates her skill as an epic poet. Now available for the first time in English translation, Enrico retells the story of the conquest of Byzantium in the Fourth Crusade (1202–04). Marinella intersperses historical events in her account of the invasion with numerous invented episodes, drawing on the rich imaginative legacy of the chivalric romance. Fast-moving, colorful, and narrated with the zest that characterizes Marinella’s other works, this poem is a great example of a woman engaging critically with a quintessentially masculine form and subject matter, writing in a genre in which the work of women poets was typically shunned.
Author(s): Lucrezia Marinella
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 507
Tags: Библиотека;Зарубежная литература;На английском языке;
CONTENTS......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Series Editors’ Introduction......Page 10
A Singular Venetian Epic Poem......Page 30
Volume Editor’s Bibliography......Page 96
Glossary of Principal Characters......Page 100
Enrico; or, Byzantium Conquered: A Heroic Poem (Prose Translation)......Page 104
To the Readers......Page 106
Canto 1 and Summaries of Cantos 2– 3......Page 108
Canto 4......Page 130
Canto 5......Page 152
Canto 6......Page 176
Canto 7......Page 194
From Canto 8......Page 214
From Canto 9......Page 222
Canto 10......Page 238
From Canto 11, from Canto 12, and Summaries of Cantos 13– 14......Page 258
Canto 15......Page 278
From Canto 16......Page 298
From Canto 17......Page 314
From Canto 18 and Summaries of Cantos 19– 20......Page 322
Canto 21......Page 334
From Canto 22 and Summary of Canto 23......Page 350
From Canto 24, from Canto 25, and Summary of Canto 26......Page 366
Canto 27......Page 382
Appendix: Cantos 6 and 7 and Excerpts from Cantos 8, 12, 22, 24, and 27 in Italian......Page 404
Series Editors’ Bibliography......Page 466
