Caroline MaldonadoVezi magazinul LibrisIsabella Morra (c1520-1545/6) was born into an impoverished aristocratic family in Southern Italy.
Forced to live in strict isolation in the family castle in Valsinni on a steep cliff above the Ionian Sea, she wrote a series of extraordinary poems about her longing for escape.
When she was twenty-six she was brutally murdered by three of her brothers in an honor killing.
Her poetry was forgotten for several hundred years.
Today Isabella Morra is regarded as a unique and powerful voice in sixteenth-century Italian literature.
This is the first complete UK edition of her poetry, and includes a series of poems written by translator Caroline Maldonado about the life and brutal death of this remarkable young woman in the context of femminicidi and honor killings in our own time.
