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Acknowledgements ix
Editor’s Introduction
The Other Voice 1
Biography 7
Situating Miani’s Work: A Survey of Early Modern Drama
Penned by Women 14
The Pastoral Play Amorosa Speranza 21
The Tragic Genre 25
Celinda: Structure and Themes 30
The Fortunes of Valeria Miani 49
Note on the Italian Text 51
Note on Transcription 52
Note on the Translation 53
Celinda, A Tragedy: Italian Text with English Translation on Facing
Pages 55
Endnotes to the Translation 370
Editors’ Bibliography 391
Index 407
Valeria Finucci is professor of Italian and Theater Studies
at Duke University. She is the author of The Lady
Vanishes (1992) and The Manly Masquerade (2003) and
has edited nine more volumes on topics as far ranging as costumes
in alba amicorum to Petrarch and Petrarchism. Her work
has appeared in The Other Voice: Chicago series, in 2005, with
Giulia Bigolina's Urania, a Romance, and in 2006, with
Moderata Fonte's Floridoro, A Chivalric Romance. Julia
Kisacky is senior lecturer in Italian at Baylor University. She
is the author of Magic in Boiardo and Ariosto(1999) and has
translated for the Chicago series Moderata Fonte's Floridoro,
A Chivalric Romance (2006).
"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'artetradition. 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 female-authored writing it produced."
*Virginia Cox, New York University*
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