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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US
18 February 2020
The radical Venetian writer Arcangela Tarabotti (1604–1652), compelled against her will to become a nun, is well known for her scathing attacks on patriarchal institutions for forcing women into convents. Convent Paradise (1643), Tarabotti’s first published work, instead invites the reader into the cloister to experience not only the trials of enclosure, but also its spiritual joys. In stark contrast to her other works, Convent Paradise aims to celebrate the religious culture that colored every aspect of Tarabotti’s experience as a seventeenth-century Venetian and a nun. At the same time, this nuanced exploration of monastic life conveys a markedly feminist spirituality. Tarabotti’s meditative portrait of the convent enriches our understanding of her own life and writing, while also providing a window into a spiritual destiny shared by thousands of early modern women.

The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe - The Toronto Series volume 73
By:   , ,
Translated by:   ,
Imprint:   Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US
Country of Publication:   United States
Volume:   568
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 154mm,  Spine: 19mm
Weight:   498g
ISBN:   9780866986267
ISBN 10:   086698626X
Series:   The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series
Pages:   288
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Illustrations xvii Abbreviations xix Acknowledgments xxi Introduction 1 The Other Voice 1 Convent Paradise and Convent Life in Seventeenth-Century Venice 2 The Convent of Sant’Anna 9 The Contours of Monastic Life 16 Composing from the Convent 31 Tarabotti’s Literary Works 31 Publishing Convent Paradise: Context and Paratext 34 Reading Convent Paradise 44 In Dialogue with Saint Augustine 44 Style and Rhetoric in Convent Paradise 47 Sources for Convent Paradise 50 Reception and Afterlife 52 Editors’ Note 60 Convent Paradise 65 Paratext: Dedication, Letters, and Poems 67 Soliloquy to God 81 Arcangela Tarabotti to the Reader 111 Book One 115 Book Two 163 Book Three 201 “The Archangel: Idyll” and Other Poems 245 Bibliography 259 Index 277

Meredith K. Ray is Professor of Italian at the University of Delaware. She is co-editor with Lynn Lara Westwater of Arcangela Tarabotti’s Letters Familiar and Formal (2012) in The Other Voice Series. Lynn Lara Westwater is Associate Professor of Italian at The George Washington University. For The Other Voice Series she is co-editor with Meredith K. Ray of Arcangela Tarabotti’s Letters Familiar and Formal (2012) and with Diana Robin of Ippolita Sforza, Duchess and Hostage in Renaissance Naples: Letters and Orations (2017).

Reviews for Convent Paradise

Meredith Ray and Lynn Westwater have done an excellent job reworking Tarabotti's labyrinthine, often page-long sentences, skillfully breaking them into readable, truly eloquent English equivalents. The notes supporting the translation are very thoroughly researched, extensive and insightful. The introduction is an indispensable guide to Tarabotti's account of convent life. --Elissa Weaver, University of Chicago Meredith Ray and Lynn Westwater have done an excellent job reworking Tarabotti's labyrinthine, often page-long sentences, skillfully breaking them into readable, truly eloquent English equivalents. The notes supporting the translation are very thoroughly researched, extensive and insightful. The introduction is an indispensable guide to Tarabotti's account of convent life. --Elissa Weaver, Professor Emerita of Italian Literature, University of Chicago


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