Acknowledgments ix
Editor’s Introduction 1
Texts and Translations 67
La Rappresentazione di Santa Domitilla 68
The Play of Saint Domitilla 69
La Rappresentazione di Santa Guglielma 144
The Play of Saint Guglielma 145
La Rappresentazione di San Francesco 230
The Play of Saint Francis 231
La Rappresentazione del figliuol prodigo 308
The Play of the Prodigal Son 309
La Rappresentazione della distruzione di Saul e il pianto di Davit
362
The Play of the Destruction of Saul and the Lament of David 363
Endnotes 444
Appendix 1: Inventory of the Tanini house in Via de’ Leoni 463
Appendix 2: Letter from Jacopa Tanini 468
Appendix 3: Fra Antonio Dolciati’s Introductory Letter of
Dedication 470
Editor’s Bibliography 478
Index 493
Elissa B. Weaver is Professor of Italian, Emerita,
University of Chicago. James Wyatt Cook is Lagbo
Trustees' Professor Emeritus of English, Albion College.
"Weaver's new edition of the Italian texts together with James
Wyatt Cook's revised English translations provide access for the
first time into the Florentine world of Antonia Pulci's
sacre rappresentazioni. Pulci, Weaver argues, may have been
the first woman to see her works through the printing press, in a
time when other women circulated their devotional works privately
among their peers. Here, then, we have the work of a woman who uses
her plays to give voices to women of various conditions, and who
wants their voices—and her own—to be heard."
*Nerida Newbigin, University of Sydney, Australia*
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