Celinda, A Tragedy - A Bilingual Edition (Paperback)

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

General

Imprint:	University of Toronto Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	November 2010
Authors:	Valeria Miani • Valeria Finucci • Julia Kisacky
Dimensions:	237 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	416
ISBN-13:	978-0-7727-2075-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > General
LSN:	0-7727-2075-4
Barcode:	9780772720757

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