Veronica Gambara (1485-1550) was one of the most celebrated lyric poets
of early sixteenth-century Italy. Equally significant to Gambara's
literary repute was her political standing as the dowager Countess of
Correggio. Though she never published a collected edition of her poetry,
Gambara produced an extensive oeuvre of vernacular verse that has been
extensively anthologized. This book presents the first complete
bilingual edition of Gambara's verse. It sheds light on the unique
interrelationship between Gambara's cultural currency and her political
power, as she drew on her literary talent to participate in the
political arena to emerge as one of the first women poet-rulers of the
Early Modern Italian tradition.