Heller, Wendy Beth. <br/><br/>
Emblems of eloquence   opera and women's voices in seventeenth-century Venice /   [electronic resource] : 
Wendy Heller. 
 - Berkeley :   University of California Press,   c2003. 
 - xix, 386 p. :   ill. ;   24 cm. 
 - ACLS Fellows’ publications. ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-369) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/> Electronic text and image data. <br/> Ann Arbor, Mich. : <br/> University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, <br/> 2009. <br/> Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. <br/> ([ACLS Fellows’ Publications]) <br/> ([A CLS Humanities E-Book]) <br/> Mode of access: Intranet. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/> Opera-- Italy-- Venice.-- 17th century<br/> Women in opera.