The Leading eBooks Store Online
for your Apple or Android device, Nook, Kobo, PC, Mac, Sony Reader...
Scanderbeide
The Heroic Deeds of George Scanderbeg, King of Epirus
Add to cart
US$ 30.00
(+ tax)
Preview (read now)
Add to my own site
Buy multiple copies
Give this ebook to a friend
Add to my wishlist
Author's page
Publisher's page
Devices
- iPad
- PC
- e-readers with Adobe Digital Editions installed
- Mac
See the full list
Available Devices
X
This book is available for the following devices:
- iPad
- Windows
- Mac
- Sony Reader
- Cool-er Reader
- Nook
- Kobo Reader
- iRiver Story
File Formats
Download: PDF.
You can also read this book online in eb20 format without having to download anything.
You can also read this book online in eb20 format without having to download anything.
Permissions
Printing
Copy/Paste
Read Aloud
Printing
Copy/Paste
Read Aloud
more
The first historical heroic epic authored by a woman, Scanderbeide recounts the exploits of fifteenth-century Albanian warrior-prince George Scanderbeg and his war of resistance against the Ottoman sultanate. Filled with scenes of intense and suspenseful battles contrasted with romantic episodes, Scanderbeide combines the action and fantasy characteristic of the genre with analysis of its characters’ motivations. In selecting a military campaign as her material and epic poetry as her medium, Margherita Sarrocchi (1560?–1617) not only engages in the masculine subjects of political conflict and warfare but also tackles a genre that was, until that point, the sole purview of men.
First published posthumously in 1623, Scanderbeide reemerges here in an adroit English prose translation that maintains the suspense of the original text and gives ample context to its rich cultural implications.
First published posthumously in 1623, Scanderbeide reemerges here in an adroit English prose translation that maintains the suspense of the original text and gives ample context to its rich cultural implications.
University of Chicago Press; November 2007
492 pages; ISBN 9780226735061
Read online, or download in secure PDF format
492 pages; ISBN 9780226735061
Read online, or download in secure PDF format
Subject categories
- Academic > Literature > French literature > History and criticism > Poetry
- Academic > Literature > Italian literature > Individual authors, 1400-1700
- Foreign Language Books > Italian
- History > Europe > Eastern
- Foreign Language Study > Italian
- Poetry > Ancient, Classical & Medieval
- Literary Criticism > European
- Literary Criticism > Poetry
- Fiction > Historical
- History > Italy
- History > Modern
ISBNs
9780226735078
9780226735061
0226735060
