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

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List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Preface and Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Editorial Principles

Introduction

1. The Emblematic Woman

2. Bizzarrie Femminile: Opera and the Accademia degli Incogniti

3. Didone and the Voice of Chastity

4. "Disprezzata regina": Woman and Empire

5. The Nymph Calisto and the Myth of Female Pleasure

6. Semiramide and Musical Transvestism

7. Messalina la Meretrice: Envoicing the Courtesan

Conclusions

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Opera 17th century Italy Venice, Women in opera