Veronica Franco in Dialogue

Marilyn Migiel is a professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University.

• AcknowledgmentsNote on the Text and Translations of Veronica Franco’s Terze RimeIntroduction: What Do We See in Veronica Franco? 1. Gendered Strategies of Persuasion: Terze Rime 1 and 22. Poetic Identity and Community: Terze Rime 3 and 4 3. Repenting as a Courtesan: Terze Rime 5 and 6 4. Complaining and Cognitive Reframing: Terze Rime 7 and 85. Seductive Insinuation and Obliquely Frank Refusal: Terze Rime 9 and 106. Verona, Venezia, Veronica: Terze Rime 11 and 127. Attacks and Concessions under Erasure: Terze Rime 13 and 14Conclusion

"Marilyn Migiel’s Veronica Franco in Dialogue is an extended study of the fourteen dialogic poems that Franco published in 1575, in each of which a female voice (Franco’s) interacts and contrasts with a male voice (left anonymous). Migiel’s powerful close readings and probing literary analyses reveal for the first time Franco’s full identity as a poet. While earlier works have presented her as above all an iconic woman and protofeminist figure, Migiel’s work shows how Franco’s consistent and subtle use of important model writers in Latin and Italian makes the poet a highly significant Renaissance author figure. Migiel’s analysis will have a substantial impact on the canonical interpretation of Franco and on future analyses of early modern women writers."- MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies Committee "This volume is an insightful and succinct example of the best type of literary reading: philologically astute, historically informed, properly contextualized, critically informed, and unafraid to advance distinctive, well-grounded evaluations of the poems under analysis…Marilyn Migiel offers us a veritable master class on the depth and intricacies of early modern poetry." - Maria Galli Stampino, University of Miami (Renaissance and Reformation)