The first edition of Gaspara Stampa's poetry, Rime di Madonna Gaspara Stampa, was published posthumously in October 1554 by Venetian printer Plinio Pietrasanta. The collection was edited by her sister Cassandra. It was dedicated to Giovanni Della Casa. Stampa's collection of poems has a diary form: Gaspara expresses happiness and emotional distress, and her 311 poems are one of the most important collections of female poetry of the 16th century. The German poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, refers to Gaspara Stampa in the first of his Duino Elegies; which is often considered his greatest work. References Bibliography Gaspara Stampa (c.1523-1554), Other Women's Voices, Retrieved on April 17, 2008 Stefano Bianchi, La scrittura poetica femminile nel Cinquecento veneto: Gaspara Stampa e Veronica Franco, Manziana: Vecchiarelli, 2013. Stampa, Gaspara; Lillie, translated by Laura Anna Stortoni & Mary Prentice (1994). Laura Anna Stortoni and Mary Prentice Lillie, ed. Gaspara Stampa: Selected Poems. New York: Italica Press. . Laurie Stras, Women and Music in Sixteenth-Century Ferrara, Cambridge Univ Press, 2018 (online), ISBN 9781316650455, online access at https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316650455 External sources Some of Gaspara Stampa's poems can be read here: https://web.archive.org/web/20090525095454/http://oldpoetry.com/oauthor/show/Gaspara_Stampa Stampa's works are also included in Harold Bloom's Western Canon, Italy: Project Continua: Biography of Gaspara Stampa 1523 births 1554 deaths Writers from Padua Italian women poets 16th-century Italian women writers Italian Renaissance writers Sonneteers