Emblems of eloquence [electronic resource] : opera and women's voices in seventeenth-century Venice / Wendy Heller.
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TextSeries: ACLS Fellowsâ publications | ACLS Humanities E-BookPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.Description: xix, 386 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject(s): Online resources: Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-369) and index.
The emblematic woman -- Bizzarrie femminile : opera and the Accademi a degli incogniti -- Didone and the voice of chastity -- "Disprezzata r egina" : woman and empire -- The nymph Calisto and the myth of female p leasure -- Semiramide and the conventions of musical transvestism -- Me ssalina la meretrice : envoicing the courtesan.
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2009. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Fellowsâ Publications]) ([A CLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.
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