Sampson, Lisa;
Cox, Virginia;
(2023)
Drama, Poetry and Music in Late-Renaissance Italy: The life and works of Leonora Bernardi (Anna Wainwright, Trans.).
[Book].
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
Leonora Bernardi (1559-1616), a gentlewoman of Lucca, was a highly regarded poet, dramatist and singer. She was active in the brilliant courts of Ferrara and Florence at a time when creative women enjoyed exceptional visibility in Italy. Like many such figures, she has since suffered historical neglect. Drama, Poetry and Music in Late-Renaissance Italy presents the first ever study of Bernardi’s life, and modern edition of her recently discovered literary corpus, which mostly exists in manuscript. Her writings appear in the original Italian with new English translations, scholarly notes, critical essays and contributions by Eric Nicholson, Eugenio Refini and Davide Daolmi. Based on new archival research, the substantial opening section reconstructs Bernardi’s unusually colourful life. Bernardi’s works reveal her connections with some of the most pioneering poets, dramatists and musicians of the day, including her mentor Angelo Grillo and the first opera librettist Ottavio Rinuccini. The second major section presents her pastoral tragicomedy Clorilli, one of the earliest secular dramatic works by a woman. It was apparently performed in the early 1590s at a Medici villa near Florence, before Grandduke Ferdinando I de’ Medici, and his consort Christine of Lorraine, but now exists in an enigmatic Venetian manuscript. The third section presents Bernardi’s secular and religious verse, which engaged with new trends in lyric and poetry for music, and was set by various key composers across Italy.
| Type: | Book |
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| Title: | Drama, Poetry and Music in Late-Renaissance Italy: The life and works of Leonora Bernardi |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800084308 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800084308 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800084308 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Contributors, 2023 Images © Contributors and copyright holders named in captions, 2023 Any third- party material in this book is not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third- party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. If you would like to reuse any thirdparty material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution- Non- commercial Non- derivative 4.0 International licence (CC BY- NC- ND 4.0), https://creativecom mons.org/licenses/by- nc- nd/4.0/. This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non- commercial use provided author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. Attribution should include the following information: Cox, V. and Sampson, L. 2023. Drama, Poetry and Music in Late-Renaissance Italy: The life and works of Leonora Bernardi. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/ 10 .14324/111.9781800084308 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | Poetry, drama, music, Renaissance |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > SELCS |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10171136 |
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