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Emblems of Eloquence

The publisher gratefully acknowledges the

generous contribution to this book provided by

the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.

Emblems of Eloquence

Opera and Women’s Voices

in Seventeenth-Centur y Venice

Wendy Heller

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

Berkeley

Los Angeles

London

University of California Press

Berkeley and Los Angeles, California

University of California Press, Ltd.

London, England

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Heller, Wendy Beth.

Emblems of eloquence : opera and women’s voices in seventeenth-

century Venice / Wendy Heller.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

isbn 0-520-20933-8 (alk. paper)

1. Opera—17th century—Italy—Venice. 2. Women in opera.

I. Title.

ml2100 .h45 2003

782.1

082

094531—dc21

2003001853

Manufactured in the United States of America

12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03

10987654 321

The paper used in this publication meets the minimum require-

ments of ansi/niso z39.48–1992 (R 1997) ( Permanence of Paper ).

Emblems of Eloquence - Opera and Women Voices in XVII Century Venice.pdf