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This essay heeds Yopie Prins’s recent call to abandon critical attempts to recover the subjectivity of (real) poetesses and instead to look at the culturally constructed figure of the “poetess.” It describes the early reception history of American poetess Lucretia Davidson who died at 16, (possibly of anorexia nervosa). Focused as it was on her death, this transatlantic body of criticism (Southey, Poe) and tribute (Desbordes-Valmore, Karolina Pavlova) offers to the poetess tradition a women’s ethic of self-sacrifice enabling a female form of literary transmission that celebrates women’s interchangeability rather than their uniqueness. An elegy by French poetess Marceline Desbordes-Valmore manipulates Davidson’s image as a means of insisting on the abstemiousness (to the point of death) of the poetess figure despite her hyperproductivity, and then ultimately insists upon the interchangeability and solidarity of women poets. In contrast, Karolina Pavlova’s elegy to Davidson carves out of this transmissible figure her own particular identity, leading to the masculinization of Pavlova’s poetry by Russian critics – and, unfortunately, to Pavlova’s subsequent obscurity. This essay leaves open the question as to which of these two elegists made the “better” choice, delineating instead options for transcontinental women poets in shaping their own subsequent transmission.

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Spanish-Italian duchess-consort of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio (1480–1519)

This article is about the historical person. For other uses, see Lucrezia Borgia (disambiguation).

Lucrezia Borgia (18 April 1480 – 24 June 1519) was an Italian noblewoman of the House of Borgia who was the illegitimate daughter of Pope Alexander VI and Vannozza dei Cattanei. She was a former governor of Spoleto.

Her family arranged several marriages for her that advanced their own political position, including Giovanni Sforza, Lord of Pesaro and Gradara, Count of Cotignola; Alfonso of Aragon, Duke of Bisceglie and Prince of Salerno; and Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara. Alfonso of Aragon was an illegitimate son of the King of Naples, and tradition has it that Lucrezia's brother, Cesare Borgia, may have had him murdered, after his political value waned.

Notorious tales about her family cast Lucrezia as a femme fatale, a controversial role in which she has been latter portrayed in many artworks, novels, and films.

Early life

See also: House of Borgia

Lucrezia Borgia was born on 18 April 1480 at Subiaco, near Rome. Her mother was Vannozza dei Cattanei, one of the mistresses of Lucrezia's father, Cardinal Rodrigo de Borgia (later Pope Alexander VI).

During her early life, Lucrezia Borgia's education was entrusted to Adriana Orsini de Milan, a close confidant of her father. Her education would primarily take place in the Palazzo Pizzo de Merlo, a building adjacent to her father's residence. Unlike most educated women of her time, for whom convents were the primary source for knowledge, her education came from within the sphere of intellectuals in the court and close relatives, and it included a solid grounding in the Humanities, which the Catholic Church was reviving, at the time. She was a thoroughly accomplished princess, fluent in Spanish, Catalan, Italian, and French, which prepared her for advantageous marriage to

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Reading Carol Faulkner’s introduction to Lucretia Mott’s Heresy took me back to Mr. Carlson’s 8th grade American History class in 1967.  Before I begin my reflection on Lucretia Mott’s Heresy, a short personal reflection on Lucretia Mott is in order.  I grew up in Philadelphia close to a neighborhood called La Mott.   Everybody knew that La Mott had been a Civil War training camp for United States Colored Troops (USCT), called Camp William Penn.  As I remember the story, local Philly businessmen and bankers helped Free African Americans and Freedman build homes and businesses on the site of the old camp after the war.   Some of the houses even used timber from the camp’s original buildings.  The new residents called the neighborhood Camptown in honor of the USCT soldiers.   When Camptown grew large enough for a post office, the residents learned they would need a new name since a Camptown Post Office already existed in Pennsylvania.  In 1885, they chose the name La Mott after Lucretia Mott whose home, Roadside, was next to the camp.

So, when Mr. Carlson assigned a book report on a famous American, my mother suggested Lucretia Mott – renowned and long-time 19th century abolitionist, women’s rights activist and Philly “home girl.” The next day, I was in the school library determined to find a biography of Lucretia Mott, hopefully a short one.  I struck out – no books on Lucretia Mott.   The librarian suggested I look in the much larger city library.  I was soon on my bike headed to the Northeast Philadelphia Public Library.  Again, I had no luck.  I cannot recall who I wrote the report on, but it was not Mrs. Mott.

Fast forward to a few weeks ago, I read that, to author Carol Faulkner’s surprise, there have only been two scholarly biographies written about Lucre

1st-century BC Roman poet and philosopher

This article is about the Roman poet and philosopher. For other people named Lucretius, see Lucretia gens. For the impact crater on the far side of the Moon, see Lucretius (crater).

Titus Lucretius Carus (TY-təs loo-KREE-shəs; Latin:[ˈtitusluˈkreːti.usˈkaːrus]; c. 99 – October 15, 55 BC) was a Romanpoet and philosopher. His only known work is the philosophical poem De rerum natura, a didactic work about the tenets and philosophy of Epicureanism, which usually is translated into English as On the Nature of Things—and somewhat less often as On the Nature of the Universe. Very little is known about Lucretius's life; the only certainty is that he was either a friend or client of Gaius Memmius, to whom the poem was addressed and dedicated.De rerum natura was a considerable influence on the Augustan poets, particularly Virgil (in his Aeneid and Georgics, and to a lesser extent on the Eclogues) and Horace. The work was almost lost during the Middle Ages, but was rediscovered in 1417 in a monastery in Germany by Poggio Bracciolini and it played an important role both in the development of atomism (Lucretius was an important influence on Pierre Gassendi) and the efforts of various figures of the Enlightenment era to construct a new Christian humanism.

Life

Virtually nothing is known about the life of Lucretius, and there is insufficient basis for a confident assertion of the dates of Lucretius's birth or death in other sources. Another, yet briefer, note is found in the Chronicon of Donatus's pupil, Jerome. Writing four centuries after Lucretius's deat