Miriam Cahn's drawings at Galerie Stampa in Basel, Switzerland are dissolute but intense depictions of arms, hands and fingers which gain political relevance with the exhibit's title, 'Sarajevo.' The works become even more powerful with the addition of a symbolic color system that represents...

Bibliografia delle opere a stampa di Giambattista Marino. By FRANCESCO GIAMBONINI. (Biblioteca di Bibliografia Italiana, 161) Florence: Olschki. 2000. 2 vols. 922 pp. 65.56 [euro]. ISBN 88-2224-876-7. Francesco Giambonini had offered an anticipation of his Bibliografia delle opere a stampa di Giambattista...

In the following essay, Jones discusses how Stampa and Mary Wroth–both of whom occupied marginal social positions—used the pastoral mode to write histories of unrequited love.

In the following essay, Braden argues that Stampa's work may have been the dominant paradigm of female Petrarchism. He examines Stampa's Rime d'amore, citing it as one of the most distinguished and exemplary sonnet sequences of the period.

In the following essay, Smarr examines Stampa as a singer and also explores her combining of tragic tone and theme with wit in many of her poems.