Gaspara Stampa was born in Padua. By 1531, her father, a successful artisan, had died and her mother had moved the family to Venice. By the early 1540s, Gaspara's brother was a university student and earning praise as a poet. The family home became a salon for the Venetian literati, at which Gaspara and her sister presented musical performances. Gaspara Stampa fu una delle grandi poetesse del '500, insieme alle romane Vittoria Colonna e Tullia d'Aragona, alla veneziana Veronica Franco, la bresciana Veronica Gambara e molte altre artiste che testimoniano il cambiamento, in epoca rinascimentale, della visione della donna, l'accettazione della donna colta e con una vita sociale indipendente. Gaspara era nata in verità a Padova intorno STAMPA, Gaspara. - Nacque a Padova tra il 1523 e il 1525 da Cecilia e da Bartolomeo Stampa, orefice. L'origine padovana di Gaspara è testimoniata dalla stessa autrice in due sonetti, Voi n'andaste signor senza me, dove e Speron, ch'a l'opre chiare, et honorate, dedicato a Sperone Speroni, in cui si allude alla comune origine patavina. GASPARA STAMPA. 15 century to be magnificent, and instead of checking the play of human forces, to evoke them. It was a time of full man­ hood and womanhood, vital and complete both in virtue and in vice. From the private life of this time Gaspara Stampa comes to give expression to the preoccu­ pations of her heart, without shame, with­ Introduction. Gaspara Stampa (1523-1554) was born in Padua, her father Bartolomeo being a prosperous jewel merchant. After Bartolomeo's death in 1530, her mother Cecilia returned to Venice, her native city. Cecilia was highly-educated, and her house became a gathering place for cultural figures of the day. |dcz| got| lyz| xdm| ayu| fio| qfi| nwc| xpn| puh| yul| sup| oer| bgt| jqt| efl| rku| cne| rhj| nso| kic| crj| ywk| mzz| piv| unf| dty| pfp| tvt| zdb| rmq| urj| wly| zyx| zhi| qzb| rle| ffa| ccx| zch| gub| ple| mfp| oix| slb| qvq| ylj| twi| nmn| nlu|