Gaspara Stampa
Stampa, Gaspara / Lillie, Mary P. / Stortoni, Laura A.![Gaspara Stampa](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/472/4726248/CHSBZCOP034726248.jpg)
GASPARA STAMPA (1523-54) is considered the greatest woman poet of the Italian Renaissance, and she is regarded by many as the greatest Italian woman poet of any age. A highly skilled musician, Stampa produced some of the most musical poetry in the Italian language. Her sonnets of unrequited love speak in a language of honest passion and profound loss. They look forward to the women writers of the nineteenth century and are a milestone in women...