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Irene di Spilimbergo: The Image of a Creative Woman in Late Renaissance Italy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
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What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?" The classicist Erich Segal managed to wring 131 pages (and who knows how many millions of dollars) out of the short life of his fictional creation Jennifer Cavilleri, the heroine of Love Story. My subject is a real girl, the painter Irene di Spilimbergo, whose death at the age of twenty-one in 1559 evoked a tribute much more substantial, although probably not so lucrative for its editor, Dionigi Atanagi: a memorial volume containing 279 Italian and 102 Latin poems, a few anonymous but most written by 143 named contributors.
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