Letters |
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Author:
| Andreini, Isabella |
Editor:
| De Santo, Paola Mongiat Farina, Caterina. |
Translator:
| De Santo, Paola Mongiat Farina, Caterina. |
Series title: | The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: the Toronto Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-64959-085-5 |
Publication Date: | Dec 2023 |
Publisher: | Iter Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $61.95 |
Book Description:
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A collection of inventive writings in letter form from a sixteenth-century star of commedia dell'arte. Isabella Andreini (1562-1604) was a commedia dell'arte diva who toured Italy and France as part of the Compagnia dei Comici Gelosi.
Letters is a collection of epistles written by Andreini in fictional, anonymous, male, and female voices, a "hermaphroditic" alternation of gender unlike any that had been seen in letter writing to that time....
More Description A collection of inventive writings in letter form from a sixteenth-century star of commedia dell'arte.
Isabella Andreini (1562-1604) was a commedia dell'arte diva who toured Italy and France as part of the Compagnia dei Comici Gelosi. Letters is a collection of epistles written by Andreini in fictional, anonymous, male, and female voices, a "hermaphroditic" alternation of gender unlike any that had been seen in letter writing to that time. In her letters, Andreini remade the humanistic epistolary genre into a distinctive fusion of literary and dramatic performance. The guise of epistolary intimacy cedes to a knowing artificiality, which allows for the emergence of Andreini's modern critique of the gendered self as a uniform entity. The collection centers on love and examines--from surprising perspectives--pertinent issues such as death, the birth of a girl, prostitution, patriarchal marital practices, love in old age, courtiership, country and city life, human nature, and defenses and critiques of both sexes.