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Article: Laura Battiferra and her Literary Circle: An Anthology.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 2008
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Laura Battiferra and her Literary Circle: An Anthology. Ed. and trans. by Victoria Kirkham. (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe) Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2006. xxxii+493 pp. 40.50 [pounds sterling] (pbk 16 [pounds sterling]). ISBN9780-226-03922-0 (pbk 978-0-226-03923-7).
Victoria Kirkham's hugely scholarly edition and translation of selected works by the Florentine poet Laura Battiferra degli Ammannati performs an invaluable service for the academic community. Kirkham has spent fifteen years in and out of Italian archives researching Battiferra, and it shows. This lengthy volume presents only a selection of the poet's very considerable ...