Gaspara Stampa
Who is Gaspara Stampa
Gaspara Stampa (1523 – 23 April 1554) was an Italian poet. She is considered to have been the greatest woman poet of the Italian Renaissance, and she is regarded by many as the greatest Italian woman poet of any age.
Biography
Stampa's father, Bartolomeo, originally from Milan, was a jewel and gold merchant in Padua, where she was born, along with her siblings Cassandra and Baldassarre. When Gaspara was eight, her father died and her mother, Cecilia, moved to Venice with her children, whom she educated in literature, music, history, and painting. Gaspara and Cassandra excelled at singing and playing the lute, possibly due to training by Tuttovale Menon.
Early on, the Stampa household became a literary club, visited by many well-known Venetian writers, p...
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Gaspara Stampa Poems
- Rime 08
If I, who am an abject, low-born woman,
Can bear within me such lofty fire,
Why should I not possess at least a little
Poetic power to tell it to the world?
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- I Swear To You, Love, By Your Arrows
I swear to you, Love, by your arrows,
And by your powerful holy flame,
I care not if by one Iâ??m maimed,
My heart burned, wasted by the other:
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- O All My Labours Scattered Uselessly
O all my labours scattered uselessly
O, all my useless scattered sighs,
O loyalty, that never, O living fire,
Chilled or burned others so, if I see truly,
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- Rime 43
Harsh is my fortune, but harsher still is the fate
dealt me by my count: he flees from me,
I follow him; others long for me,
I cannot look at another man's face.
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- Rime 104
O night to me more splendid and more blessed
Than the most blessed and most splendid of days,
Night worthy of the most exalted praise,
Not just of mine, unworthy and distressed,
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Comments about Gaspara Stampa
- Crowofminerva: so that it might be said that my true form,
for those who look carefully at such a varied accident,
is an image of echo and chimera.
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- Kukukadoo: ladies, have you ever fallen in love with an aristocrat right around christmas and thought about how he made himself a nest in your humble heart just like jesus lodged in mary’s womb? gaspara stampa has
- Aromatasemebro: toni collette as gaspara stampa and florence pugh as the abandoned girl imagining her
- Jesbattis: to the student who compared one of gaspara stampa's sonnets to wham! singing "last christmas..." on an exam--thank you for the joy this gave me.
- Lauraingalli: let me introduce you to this lady, the one and only luisa bergalli (1703-1779). luisa was amazing. she wrote tragedies, musical drama, poems; translated terence, racine, etc. into italian; curated the first anthologies of women's writing (1726) & edited poets like gaspara stampa.
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