Emblems of eloquence : opera and women's voices in seventeenth-century Venice /
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
c2003.
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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.
