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Scanderbeide

The Heroic Deeds of George Scanderbeg, King of Epirus
  • Translated by: and
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2006

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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.

Author / Editor information

Rinaldina Russell is professor emerita of European languages and literatures at the City University of New York, Queens College. She is coeditor and cotranslator of Tullia d’Aragona’s Dialogue on the Infinity of Love, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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"Russell's meticulous introduction gives indispensable biographical information as well as important historical and pseudohistorical contexts for various episodes in the poem. . . . As a whole the volume is impresively rich and comprehensive."
— Nathalie Hester, Renaissance Quarterly

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    Frontmatter

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    CONTENTS

    v
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

    vii
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    THE OTHER VOICE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE: INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES

    ix
    Margaret L. King and Albert Rabil
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    MARGHERITA SARROCCHI AND THE WRITING OF THE SCANDERBEIDE

    1
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    VOLUME EDITOR'S BIBLIOGRAPHY

    45
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    NOTE ON TRANSLATION

    59
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  • CAST OF MAIN CHARACTERS
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    IN THE ALBANIAN CAMP

    63
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    CANTO 1

    75
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    From CANTO 2

    100
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    CANTO 3

    113
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    CANTO 5

    139
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    From CANTO 6

    164
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    CANTO 7

    179
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    CANTO 9

    204
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    CANTO 10

    223
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    From CANTO 13

    240
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    From CANTO 14

    263
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    From CANTO 15

    274
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    From CANTO 17

    290
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    From CANTO 18

    295
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    From CANTO 19

    313
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    From CANTO 20

    324
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    CANTO 21

    349
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    CANTO 22

    366
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    CANTO 23

    387
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    APPENDIX: EXCERPTS FROM CANTOS 5, 6, 13 AND 22 IN ITALIAN

    403
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    GLOSSARY

    427
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    SERIES EDITOR’S BIBLIOGRAPHY

    441
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    INDEX

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eBook ISBN:
9780226735061
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https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226735061
eBook ISBN: 9780226735061
Keywords for this book
hero; heroics; heroic; george scanderbeg; king; ruler; epirus; history; historical; academic; scholarly; research; epic; women; womens studies; feminist; feminism; 15th century; renaissance; albania; warrior; prince; relationships; war; ottoman; empire; empirical; poetry; poetics; masculine; politics; political; canto; translation; prose
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
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