Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Isabella Medici-Orsini: A Portrait of Self-Affirmation, DONNA G.CARDAMONE; Chapter 2 “Simil combattimento fatto da Dame”: The Musico-theatrical Entertainments of Margherita Gonzaga's balletto delle donne and the Female Warrior in Ferrarese Cultural History, NINATREADWELL; Chapter 3 Madalena Casulana, THOMASINLAMAY; Chapter 4 Chaste Warriors and Virgin Martyrs in Florentine Musical Spectacle, KELLEYHARNESS; Chapter 5 Le nonne della ninfa: Feminine Voices and Modal Rhetoric in the Generations before Monteverdi, LAURIESTRAS; Chapter 6 Gossip, Erotica, and the Male Spy in Alessandro Striggio's Il Cicalamento delle donne al bucato (1567), CHRISTINAFUHRMANN; Chapter 7 Construction of Desire in Early Baroque Instrumental Music, ANDREWDELL'ANTONIO; Chapter 8 Music, Sex, and Ethnicity: Signification in Lully's Theatrical Chaconnes, ROSE A.PRUIKSMA; Chapter 9 Sic ego te dilegebam: Music, Homoeroticism, and the Sacred in Early Modern Europe, TODD M.BORGERDING; Chapter 10 Christine de Pizan and ‘Dueil Angoisseux’, LIANECURTIS; Chapter Postscript: Dancing with the Ingrate, SUZANNECUSICK; Chapter Contributors Index;

About the Author

Todd Borgerding is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.