- Description
- 1 online resource (xix, 386 p.) : ill.
- Uniform Title
- Emblems of eloquence (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Emblems of eloquence (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-369) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- The emblematic woman -- Bizzarrie feminile : 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 musical transvestism -- Messalina la meretrice : envoicing the courtesan.
- LCCN
- 2003001853
- OCLC
- ssj0000279020
- Author
Heller, Wendy, 1955-
- Title
Emblems of eloquence [electronic resource] : opera and women's voices in seventeenth-century Venice / Wendy Heller.
- Imprint
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-369) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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