Celinda, a Tragedy: A Bilingual Edition Volume 8

by Valeria Miani

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0772720754
• ISBN13: 9780772720757
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Iter Press
• Length: 415 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 9.0"