Gaspara Stampa
Gaspara Stampa (* around 1523 in Padua , † April 23, 1554 in Venice ) was an Italian poet and courtesan .
Life
Stampa was born in Padua as the daughter of a goldsmith, was orphaned at an early age and was raised with her sister and brother in Venice . All three were famous for their musical and literary talents. Stampa was very likely a courtesan , Cortegiana in the sophisticated language of her time, had various lovers and fell in love with Count Collaltino di Collalto, a Venetian nobleman , around 1548 , who, however, left her again. In 1550 she entered the intellectual society Accademia dei Dubbiosi under the name Anasilla or Annaxilla . In 1551 Collaltino arrived again in Venice and she followed him to his ancestral castle until he finally left it because of other friends. Because of the differences in class , marriage was never an option. She returned to Venice and bonded with a new lover. She died in 1554 of a febrile illness.
Her canzoniere , brought into a work by her sister and published for the first time a year after her death, shows traces of her tragic life. The work contains sensual love poems that are considered to be an authentic expression of the feelings and passions of a tormented soul. Rainer Maria Rilke mentions them in his 1st Duinese elegy: "Did you think enough of Gaspara Stampa / that any girl / whom the lover escaped could feel from the heightened example / of these lovers: that I would be like her?"
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Stampa, Gaspara . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 37th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1878, p. 116 ( digitized version ).
- GA Cesareo: Gaspara Stampa, donna e poetessa , 1920.
- L. Pompilj: Gasparina , 1936.
- Friedhelm Kemp: The European Sonnet, Vol. 1, pp. 179–197, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-89244-481-1 .
- Stefano Bianchi, La scrittura poetica femminile nel Cinquecento veneto: Gaspara Stampa e Veronica Franco , Manziana, Vecchiarelli, 2013. ISBN 978-88-8247-337-2 .
Web links
- Biography (ital.)
- Bibliography
- Rime (PDF file; 533 kB)
- Literature by and about Gaspara Stampa in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ The small encyclopedia , Encyclios-Verlag, Zurich, 1950, volume 2, page 665
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stampa, Gaspara |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Annasilla |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian poet and courtesan |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1523 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Padua |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 23, 1554 |
| Place of death | Venice |