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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
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