Letters, Volume 100

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.  

General

Imprint:	Iter Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series
Release date:	December 2023
First published:	2023
Authors:	Isabella Andreini
Editors:	Paola De Santo • Caterina Mongiat Farina
Translators:	Paola De Santo • Caterina Mongiat Farina
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Pages:	334
ISBN-13:	978-1-64959-085-5
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	1-64959-085-7
Barcode:	9781649590855

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