{"product_id":"9780226048796","title":"Urania: A Romance","description":"Presented for the first time in a critical English edition, \u003ci\u003eUrania: A Romance\u003c\/i\u003e provides modern readers with a rare glimpse into the novel and novella forms at a time when narrative genres were not only being invented but, in the hands of women like Giulia Bigolina (1518?-1569?), used as vehicles for literary experimentation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The first known prose romance written by a woman in Italian, Bigolina's \u003ci\u003eUrania\u003c\/i\u003e centers on the monomaniacal love of a female character falling into melancholy when her beloved leaves her for a more beautiful woman. A tale that includes many of the conventions that would later become standards of the genre—cross-dressing, travel, epic skirmishes, and daring deeds—\u003ci\u003eUrania\u003c\/i\u003e also contains the earliest treatise on the worth of women.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Also included in this volume, the novella \u003ci\u003eGiulia Camposampiero\u003c\/i\u003e is the only extant part of a probable longer narrative written in the style of the \u003ci\u003eDecameron\u003c\/i\u003e. While employing some of those same gender and role reversals as \u003ci\u003eUrania\u003c\/i\u003e, including the privileging of heroic constancy in both men and women, it chronicles the tribulations that a couple undergoes until their secret marriage is publicly recognized.","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079991738608,"sku":"9780226048796","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780226048796_p0.jpg?v=1765232788","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780226048796","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}