Abbreviations for Mina Loy’s works are as follows:
LLB82 Last Lunar Baedeker
LLB96 Lost Lunar Baedeker
Unattributed photographs of contemporary Italian sites are by Linda A. Kinnahan or from public websites.
Thanks go to Tom Kinnahan, for hours of hiking and exploring in Italy; to David and Anne Wilkins, for their help in locating addresses for galleries and their generous enthusiasm about all things Italian; and to Michael Wright and Alana Sacriponte for their exquisite Italian expertise and endless support. At Duquesne University, the Hillman Foundation and the McAnulty College NEH Endowment have provided support for this research.
Works Cited
Baedeker, Karl. Handbook for Travelers: Northern Italy. London: Dulau and Co. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1906.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. “Casa Guido Windows.” https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/browning/elizabeth_barrett/casa-guidi-windows/part1.html
Braggioti, Gloria. Born in a Crowd. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1957.
Burke, Carolyn. Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996.
Churchill, Suzanne. “Courting an Audience: Loy’s Plays.” Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde. https://mina-loy.com/chapters/courting-an-audience/
Conover, Roger. “Notes.” The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems by Mina Loy. Ed. Roger L. Conover. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1996.
Du Plessis, Rachel Blau. Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908-1934. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Hayden, Sarah. Curious Disciplines: Mina Loy and Avant-Garde Artisthood. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2018.
Loy, Mina. The Last Lunar Baedeker. Ed. Roger L. Conover. Highlands, NC: The Jargon Society, 1982.
___________. Letter to Carl Van Vechten, Sept. 8, 1914. YCAL MSS 1050. https://brbl-zoom.library.yale.edu/viewer/11221672
____________. Letter to Carl Van Vechten, undated (1914?), YCAL MSS 1050. https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3868264
___________. The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems by Mina Loy. Ed. Roger L. Conover. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1996.
Luhan, Mabel Dodge. Intimate Memories I-II, Background, European Experiences. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1933.
Miller, Cristanne. Cultures of Modernism: Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, and Else Lasker-Schüler. Anne Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2007.
Pittsburgh Press. “Would You Be “Different’? Mina Loy Shows How.” April 3, 1921. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15430648/mina_loy_fashion_designs/
Prescott, Tara. Poetic Salvage: Reading Mina Loy. Lewisburg PA: Bucknell University Press, 2016.
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American Readers. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern UP, 1998.
Scuriatti, Laura. “Transnational Modernist Encounters in the Provinces: Lacerba, Mina Loy and International Debates on Sexual Morality in Florence.” Forum for Modern Language Studies 53.3 (2017): 303-313.
Van Vechten, Carl. Sacred and Profane Memories. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932.