Journey of Five Capuchin Nuns contains all the elements of a riveting adventure story. Through the eyes of the Mother Abbess, Maria Rosa, the reader is taken along on this journey through wars, pirates, disease, travel on the high seas, and treacherous mountain passes in the Andes.

Journey of Five Capuchin Nuns (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series, Volume 1) by Madre Maria Rosa (2009-05-03)

Biographies & Memoirs

Rosa, Madre María

Community & Culture

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Originally published in 1622, Love in the Mirror tells the unforgettable and path-breaking story of a passionate love affair between two women in early modern Florence. Despite the risk of social sanctions, Florinda and Lidia freely consent to love each other “breast to breast and mouth to mouth,” with some surprising consequences for the institution of marriage.
This bilingual edition of the play introduces the English-speaking reader to one of the most remarkable creative artists of the Baroque age, Giovan Battista Andreini (1576–1654). Actor, playwright, and son of the first great diva of the European stage, Isabella Andreini, Giovan Battista was renowned in his lifetime as an avant-garde theatrical innovator. While drawing on the Italian commedia dell’arte, his comedies go far beyond its limits in order— like Calderón, Corneille and Shakespeare—to subvert traditional views of the relationship between art and life, representation and reality.
Love in the Mirror, which was lost from view for centuries, is here translated for the first time into a highly accessible and fully annotated English version. The volume includes a wideranging introduction to this experimental comic masterpiece, as well as to the life and works of G.B. Andreini.

Love in the Mirror: A Bilingual Edition (Volume 2) (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series)

Literature & Fiction

Giovan Battista Andreini

Dramas & Plays

The Great Schism (1378–1417) divided Western Christendom into two groups: those who recognized a pope in Rome and those who recognized one in Avignon. It was a crisis of authority that brought with it spiritual anxiety and political uproar. This book presents the responses of two fascinating women whose experiences demonstrate the impact of the Schism on ordinary Christians. Constance de Rabastens (active 1384–1386), who lived in a village in rural Languedoc, had dramatic visions indicting the Avignon pope Clement VII, despite his being recognized in her region. Ursulina of Parma (1375–1408), a diminutive young woman from an urban milieu in Italy, believed that she was commanded by Christ to engage in shuttle diplomacy between the Roman and Avignon papacies in order to end the Schism. Two Women of the Great Schism translates an account of Constance’s visionary experiences as recorded by her confessor Raymond de Sabanac and a posthumous biography of Ursulina by Simone Zanacchi, a pious abbot who wrote some sixty years after his subject’s death. These texts bring to life the extraordinary spiritual and political engagement of two late medieval women who refused to be passive bystanders as rival papal factions tore Christendom apart.

Two Women of the Great Schism: The Revelations of Constance de Rabastens and Life of the Blessed Ursulina of Parma (Other voice in early modern Europe, Toronto series, No. 3) (Volume 3)

Raymond De Sabanac

Simone Zanacchi

This new bilingual edition of Du Guillet's poems includes a richly detailed and up-to-date introduction and a translation that follows the original rhymes - a daunting undertaking often performed with dazzling accuracy, humor and verve.

Complete Poems: A Bilingual Edition (The Other Voice: Toronto Series, Volume 6)

Pernette du Guillet

Poetry

One of the first printed medical texts to be attributed to a female author, "The True Medicine" (1587) is radically innovative in its rejection of contemporary medical theory for a more pro-feminist physiology and cosmology. With unprecedented clarity and care, Gianna Pomata brings an important text in the history of scientific authorship to the attention of modern-day readers.

The True Medicine (Volume 4) (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series)

Sabuco de Nantes Barrera, Oliva

De Nantes Barrera, Oliva Sabuco

Religion & Spirituality

One of the most acclaimed French poets from the turn of the eighteenth century and one of the rare women of the time to achieve recognition at court, Louise-Geneviève Gillot de Sainctonge was France's first female librettist. The current volume provides not only the most in-depth biography of her ever published, but also the first appearance of any of her work in English.

Dramatizing Dido, Circe, and Griselda (Volume 5) (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series)

Gillot de Sainctonge, Louise-Geneviève

This fresh translation of five plays securely authored by Antonia Pulci—one of the first published women writers in Renaissance Florence—reveals this gifted dramatist at her finest. Intended primarily for a convent audience, Pulci’s plays give us a fascinating glimpse into how theatrical expressions of female religiosity were animated by both exemplary female saints’ lives and contemporary debates over marriage and virginity. There is much to recommend in this new bilingual presentation. The translations sparkle; and Weaver’s elegant, erudite introduction and her publication of new archival materials not only enrich the historical record concerning Pulci’s life and works but also set it straight. —Sharon Strocchia Professor of History, Emory University

Saints' Lives and Bible Stories for the Stage: A Bilingual Edition (Volume 7) (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series)

Pulci, Antonia

Valeria Miani's "Celinda" (1611), the only female-authored secular tragedy of early modern Italy, is here made available for the first time in a modern edition.

Celinda, A Tragedy: A Bilingual Edition (Volume 8) (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series)

Miani, Valeria

This is a superb book on all levels. The translations of the tales are excellent. The research is impeccable. The introduction and notes are highly informative. Most important, Lewis Seifert and Domna Stanton have focused on unusual fairy tales that have never been translated before and are seminal for understanding the development of the literary fairy tale as genre. French women writers played a central role in the institutionalization of a literary genre in the French civilizing process that had huge ramifications in opera, theater, vaudeville, music, and film. Moreover, their tales influenced other writers of fairy tales in Europe. This book does an honor to their creative efforts and provides the basis for further research on the development of European fairy tales. —Jack Zipes Professor of German, Emeritus, University of Minnesota

Enchanted Eloquence: Fairy Tales by Seventeenth–Century French Women Writers (Volume 9) (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series)

Literary

<div>This excellent collection of essays and texts surveys the culture and intellectual context of early modern Italy in order to render more intelligible the writing of Italian women. The role of women in society and the persistent misogyny even of the most pro-woman texts are explored in the essays, and the recent critical debates are examined. The translations make available in English a selection of male-authored texts which directly or indirectly elicited the spirited responses of women, for which the volume is aptly entitled "In Dialogue." A valuable classroom resource, the volume is an important addition to The Other Voice: Toronto series. --Elissa Weaver Professor of Italian, Emerita, University of Chicago</div>

In Dialogue with the Other Voice in Sixteenth-century Italy: Literary and Social Contexts for Women's Writing (Volume 11) (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series)

History & Criticism

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