Celinda, A Tragedy
(Part of the The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series (#8) Series and The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series (#8) Series)
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Valeria Miani's Celinda (1611), the only female-authored secular tragedy of early modern Italy, is here made available for the first time in a modern edition. Miani's tale of the doomed love of the Lydian princess Celinda for the cross-dressed Persian prince Autilio/ Lucinia offers a striking example of the explorative attitude to gender identity that is such a marked characteristic of Italian drama in this period, both within the erudite and the commedia dell'arte tradition. Accompanied by Julia Kisacky's sensitive translation, and with a valuable contextualizing introduction by Valeria Finucci, this edition of Celinda makes an important contribution to our understanding of women's place within Italian literary culture in a period increasingly recognized as exceptional for the range and quality of femaleauthored writing it produced.
--Virginia Cox
Professor of Italian, New York University
--Virginia Cox
Professor of Italian, New York University
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0772720754
ISBN13:9780772720757
Release Date:November 2010
Publisher:Iter Press
Length:415 Pages
Weight:1.90 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 5.9" x 9.0"
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