Rime

by Tullia d'Aragona

Tullia D'Aragona, petrarchista di maniera, è una delle donne del XVI secolo che hanno contribuito a forgiare la nostra tradizione letteraria, per poi essere dimenticata quando se ne è dovuto trarre le somme. In questo volumetto sono raccolte le sue rime, indirizzate ad alcune delle personalità più influenti del suo tempo.

68 pages, Paperback

Published November 21, 2022

About the author

Tullia d'Aragona (c. 1510–1556) was born in Rome and raised there and in Siena by her mother. Like her mother, she became a courtesan, and like other courtesans who wished to move in the upper reaches of society, she was trained in music and literature. When she was in her 20s, she and her mother began to move from city to city but always returned to Rome. During the later 1530s they were in Venice and Ferrara. In both cities Aragona interacted with the philosophic and literary elite, her home became a salon, and her writing began to be noticed. It was in Ferrara that Aragona met Girolamo Muzio, the courtier and poet who would become her literary editor and promoter.