Echoes of Women’s Voices
Music, Art, and Female Patronage in Early Modern Florence
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Abbreviations
Notes to the Reader
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Modes of Artistic Communication and Perception in Early Modern Florence
2. “A more than virile prudence”: Archduchess Maria Magdalena
3. Amazons of God: Virgin Martyrs Spectacles, 1621–25
4. “Una forte, magnanima, e generosa vedova”: Judith
5. “She hoped to see in the triumphs of religion the triumphs of her house”: Epic-Chivalric Poems and the Equestrian Ballets
6. “Now it suits me to beseech”: End of the Regency, End of a Decade (1628–30)
7. “One of the most Perfect Unions of the Spiritual and the Temporal imaginable”: The Monastero di Santa Croce
8. “Queens of the Arno”: Medici Princesses and the Crocetta
Appendix A. Female Worthies Depicted in Lunette Frescoes in the Audience Room, Villa Poggio Imperiale
Appendix B. Summary of Book 3 of the Acts of Paul
Select Bibliography
Index
"Echoes of Women’s Voices is a superb contribution to women’s studies, the history of arts patronage, musicology, and, more generally, to our understanding of early modern Florence and the dynamics of its political self-fashioning. Meticulously researched, beautifully written, well argued, and enhanced by a rich apparatus of illustrations, tables, musical examples, and document transcriptions (most with translations), this study is a model of interdisciplinary scholarship at its best."
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