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

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003], ©2003.

xix, 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-369) and index.

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