Letters : Volume 100 Paperback / softback
by Isabella Andreini
Edited by Paola De Santo, Caterina Mongiat Farina
Part of the The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series series
Paperback / softback
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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.
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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:331 pages, 2 color plates
- Publisher:Iter Press
- Publication Date:21/12/2023
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- ISBN:9781649590855
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:331 pages, 2 color plates
- Publisher:Iter Press
- Publication Date:21/12/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781649590855
