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within the Sword and the Pen: girls, Politics, and Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Siena, Konrad Eisenbichler analyzes the paintings of Sienese girls poets, particularly, Aurelia Petrucci, Laudomia Forteguerri, and Virginia Salvi, in the course of the first 1/2 the 16th century as much as the autumn of Siena in 1555. Eisenbichler units forth a posh and unique interpretation of the reports of those 3 proficient noblewomen and their contributions to modern tradition in Siena through taking a look at the emergence of a brand new lyric culture and the sonnets they exchanged between themselves and with their male contemporaries. throughout the research in their poems and numerous e-book dedications to them, Eisenbichler finds the intersection of poetry, politics, and sexuality, in addition to the gendered discussion that characterised Siena's literary surroundings in the course of the overdue Renaissance. Eisenbichler additionally examines different little-known girls poets and their dating to the cultural surroundings of Siena, underlining the outstanding position of the town of Siena because the most vital heart of women's writing within the first 1/2 the 16th century in Italy, and doubtless in all of Europe. This cutting edge contribution to the sector of overdue Renaissance and early sleek Italian and women's stories rescues from close to oblivion a bunch of literate ladies who have been celebrated via modern students yet who've been principally overlooked this day, either due to a dearth of biographical information regarding them and thanks to a slender review in their poetry. Eisenbichler's research and copy of lots of their poems in Italian and glossy English translation are a useful contribution not just to Italian cultural reviews but additionally to women's studies.