Francesca Turini Bufalini / Francesco Turini Bufalini
Librería Samer Atenea
Librería Aciertas (Toledo)
Kálamo Books
Librería Perelló (Valencia)
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Donde los libros
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
In her Rime (1627-28), FRANCESCA TURINI BUFALINI included a series of sonnetsunder the subtitle 'Principio dello stato dell’autrice.' . . . These poems are uniquefor their truly autobiographical nature, openly declared as such by the author herself.None of the European women poets preceding her, or any of her contemporaries,recorded their lives with such precision. In these sonnets, Turini Bufalini gives us a detaileddescription of her life, from childhood to old age, along with the full spectrumof her emotions. She describes her birth followed by the death of her father andmother, her lonely, rustic but free life as an orphan in her uncle’s castle in the wildernessof the Apennines (where she kept company with shepherdesses, rode horses andwent hunting), her marriage, her exuberant joys of motherhood, her sad widowhood,love for her children and grandchildren, trouble with her adult sons and the tragicdeath of one of them. In most poems a strong, narrating 'I' predominates, but frequentlythe author also addresses herself, her heart and her soul in the personal 'you'voice. . . .With my introduction and notes, and my selection of what I consider to be TuriniBufalini’s best poems, I point out the parallelism between events in her actual life andher poetic compositions. I examine her style, themes and quality as a poet who wroteon subjects not seen before in the works of other women poets. Where possible, Icompare her verses to those of Italian poets preceding her. I also review and commenton the opinions of literary critics regarding her work. . . .- Introduction
