Courting Celebrity : : The Autobiographies of Angela Veronese and Teresa Bandettini / / ed. by Irene Zanini-Cordi, Adrienne Ward.
In 1826 Angela Veronese, a gardener’s daughter, wrote and published the first modern autobiography by an Italian woman. Veronese’s account focuses on her unique experience as a peasant girl who came of age among the Venetian elite, and details how she attained a certain renown in and out of Italy by...
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Toronto Italian Studies
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 6 b&w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Angela Veronese
- Teresa Bandettini
- Contexts and Conclusions
- Sonnet by Luigi Carrer, remembering Aglaja Anassillide
- Works Cited (General Bibliography)
- Index