Jacopo Caviceo's Peregrino: Annotated English Edition and Translation
Sherry Roush, "Jacopo Caviceo's Peregrino: Annotated English Edition and Translation "
English | ISBN: 1487505752 | 2023 | 496 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1190 KB + 7 MB
English | ISBN: 1487505752 | 2023 | 496 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1190 KB + 7 MB
Jacopo Caviceo’s Peregrino (1508) was a popular Renaissance prose romance in Italy, France, and Spain. Considered the first novel written for women, Peregrino relates the courtship of two young lovers from hostile households who succeed in doing what Romeo and Juliet, among others, could not: reconcile their families and marry without resorting to suicide.
Peregrino features cameos of historical celebrities who interact with fictitious characters during their many adventures, which include a Mediterranean pilgrimage, courtly celebrations, funerals, legal trials, and a journey to the Other World. The book presents female agency in psychologically developed characters and contexts and includes allusions to previous literary masterpieces, such as Homer’s epics, Virgil’s Aeneid, and Dante’s
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