La Festa Et Storia Di Sancta Caterina: A Medieval Italian Religious Drama Edited and Translated Into English, with an Introduction on Saint Catherine by Van Baak, Nancy Wilson

La Festa Et Storia Di Sancta Caterina: A Medieval Italian Religious Drama (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820428963)

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La Festa Et Storia Di Sancta Caterina: A Medieval Italian Religious Drama Edited and Translated Into English, with an Introduction on Saint Catherine by Van Baak, Nancy Wilson

La Festa Et Storia Di Sancta Caterina: A Medieval Italian Religious Drama

$72.95
La Festa Et Storia Di Sancta Caterina: A Medieval Italian Religious Drama Edited and Translated Into English, with an Introduction on Saint Catherine by Van Baak, Nancy Wilson

La Festa Et Storia Di Sancta Caterina: A Medieval Italian Religious Drama

$72.95
Format: Hardcover
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Catherine of Alexandria was undoubtedly one of the most popular saints in the Middle Ages. Her mystical union with Christ and her martyrdom ordeal inspired many works of prose and poetry in a wide variety of languages, including Italian. The Festa et storia is singular in that it is one of only two known medieval Italian plays about this saint, and it is structured to be performed over a three-day period. This religious play, or sacra rappresentazione, is analyzed in the context of medieval lay confraternities and of earlier treatments of Catherine's legend in Italy. The linguistic and literary aspects of the text reflect its place in the popular literary tradition of late medieval Siena. Also, the primary Latin source of the Festa et storia and many other Romance vernacular recensions, BHL 1663, is provided in English translation.

Author: Guy R. Mermier
ISBN-10: 0820428965
ISBN-13: 9780820428963
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 02/01/1997
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover
By Guy R. Mermier
By Guy R. Mermier
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The Editor and Translator: Anne Wilson Tordi was born in Belgium and educated in the United States. She received her undergraduate degree from Barnard College in New York City and studied at the University of Florence, Italy. She has taught Italian and French and was resident director for the University of North Carolina's program in Siena from 1989 to 1990. She received her doctorate in Romance Philology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1994.

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