Table of Contents: Emblems of eloquence

Emblems of eloquence : opera and women's voices in seventeenth-century Venice /

Emblems of eloquence : opera and women's voices in seventeenth-century Venice / / Wendy Heller.

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Bibliographic Details
:	ProQuest (Firm) Heller, Wendy Beth.
TeilnehmendeR:	ProQuest (Firm)
Year of Publication:	2003
Language:	English
Online Access:	https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/oeawat/detail.action?docID=227293
Physical Description:	xix, 386 p. cm.
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Table of Contents:

The emblematic woman
Bizzarrie femminile : opera and the Accademia degli incogniti
Didone and the voice of chastity
'Disprezzata regina' : woman and empire
The nymph Calisto and the myth of female pleasure
Semiramide and the conventions of musical transvestism
Messalina la meretrice : envoicing the courtesan.