{"title":"\"Free to Sing My Liberty\": Weaving and the Construction of the Literary Self in Gaspara Stampa and Louise Labé","authors":"Olimpia Pelosi","doi":"10.1353/MDI.2018.0004","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"High Renaissance Venice: a lavish, cosmopolitan city at the peak of its economic, cultural, and artistic opulence, stretching in an intricate architectural “maze” of palaces, alleys, and canals where—as remarked by Feldman (XVII, 3)—the most heterogeneous social classes coexisted in a prosperous, harmonious contiguity. From this splendid urban space in the fall of 1554, Cassandra Stampa, in her dedicatory epistle to Giovanni Della Casa that opens the posthumous book of her sister Gaspara Stampas’s Rime, wrote the following:","PeriodicalId":36685,"journal":{"name":"Scripta Mediaevalia","volume":"10 1","pages":"115 - 141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Scripta Mediaevalia","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/MDI.2018.0004","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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High Renaissance Venice: a lavish, cosmopolitan city at the peak of its economic, cultural, and artistic opulence, stretching in an intricate architectural “maze” of palaces, alleys, and canals where—as remarked by Feldman (XVII, 3)—the most heterogeneous social classes coexisted in a prosperous, harmonious contiguity. From this splendid urban space in the fall of 1554, Cassandra Stampa, in her dedicatory epistle to Giovanni Della Casa that opens the posthumous book of her sister Gaspara Stampas’s Rime, wrote the following: