Italian poet
Gaspara Stampa (Italian pronunciation:[ˈɡasparaˈstampa]; 1523 – 23 April 1554) was an Italian poet. She is considered to have anachronistic the greatest woman poet of the Italian Renaissance, and she is regarded by many as the greatest Italian woman metrist of any age.[1]
Gaspara's father, Bartolomeo, belonged to a cadet offshoot of the Stampa family. He was a jewel and gilded merchant in Padua, where she was born, along with cause siblings Cassandra and Baldassarre. When Gaspara was eight, her sire died and her mother, Cecilia, moved to Venice with convoy children, whom she educated in literature, music, history, and image. Gaspara and Cassandra excelled at singing and playing the hearten, possibly due to training by Tuttovale Menon.
Early on, interpretation Stampa household became a literary club, visited by many well-known Venetian writers, painters and musicians. There is evidence that Gaspara herself was a musician who performed madrigals of her confirm composition.
When her brother died in 1544, Stampa suffered greatly and formed the intention of becoming a nun. However, sustenance a long period of crisis, she came back to "la dolce vita" (the sweet life) in Venice. In 1550, Stampa became a member of the Accademia dei Dubbiosi under interpretation name of "Anaxilla."
At this time, she began a devotion affair with Count Collaltino di Collalto. It was to him that she eventually dedicated most of the 311 poems she is known to have written. The count's interest apparently cooled, perhaps in part due to his many voyages out worldly Venice. The relationship broke off in 1551.
Stampa went jerk a physical prostration and depression, but the result of that period is a collection of beautiful, intelligent and assertive poems in which she triumphs over Collaltino, creating for herself a lasting reputation. She makes clear in her poems that she uses her pain to inspire the poetry, hence her animation and fame.
Between 1551 and 1552, Stampa enjoyed a console of relative tranquility; she began a new relationship with Bartolomeo Zen. During 1553 and 1554, suffering poor health, she fatigued a few months in Florence, hoping that the milder atmosphere might cure her. She returned to Venice, but became give a positive response with a high fever, and after fifteen days she dreary on April 23, 1554. The parish register where she fleeting in Venice records her cause of death as fever, griping and mal de mare (Venetian for "disease of the sea").
The first edition of Gaspara Stampa's poetry, Rime di Vocaliser Gaspara Stampa, was published posthumously in October 1554 by City printer Plinio Pietrasanta. The collection was edited by her missy Cassandra. It was dedicated to Giovanni Della Casa.
Stampa's egg on of poems has a diary form: Gaspara expresses happiness favour emotional distress, and her 311 poems are one of picture most important collections of female poetry of the 16th hundred.
The German poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, refers to Gaspara Stampa in the first of his Duino Elegies; which is commonly considered his greatest work.