Gaspara Stampa

Gas Stampa (* 1523 in Padua, † April 23, 1554 in Venice) was an Italian poet and courtesan.

Life

Stampa was born in Padua, orphaned early and was brought up with her ​​sister and brother in Venice. All three were famous for their musical and literary talent. Stampa was very probably a courtesan, Cortegiana in the elevated language of their time, had several lovers and fell himself into the Count di Collaltino Collalto, a Venetian nobleman, who left after three years. Your Canzoniere, first published a year after her death, has traces of her tragic life. The work contains sensual love poems that are an authentic expression of feelings and passions of a tortured soul. Rainer Maria Rilke mentions it in his first Duino Elegy: "Have the gas Stampa / because enough thought that any girl / the escaped the beloved, the exalted example / these lovers feel: that I would like it "