TY - GEN AU - Heller,Wendy Beth TI - Emblems of eloquence: opera and women's voices in seventeenth-century Venice PY - 2003/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - 17th century KW - Italy KW - Venice KW - Opera KW - Women in opera N1 - E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal; American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about; Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-369) and index; The emblematic woman -- Bizzarrie femminile : opera and the Accademia degli incogniti -- Didone and the voice of chastity -- "Disprezzata regina" : woman and empire -- The nymph Calisto and the myth of female pleasure -- Semiramide and the conventions of musical transvestism -- Messalina la meretrice : envoicing the courtesan UR - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb05548 ER -