Women in Poetry: Virginia Martini de' Salvi
Maria Luisa Cerron Puga
This paper will offer some considerations about women, poetry, and publishing in sixteenth-century Italy, taking the example of Virginia Martini de'Salvi, a noble Siennese whose social life and work in Rome appears to be as bright and appreciated in her time as it was forgotten thereafter. I will focus on her most well-known lyric, fourteen stanzas that remake a sonnet of Petrarch in a female key and were set to music by Pierluigi da Palestrina as madrigali profani.
Dipartimento di Studi Romanzi, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza" P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome.
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