Foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Note to the Reader
Excerpts from Francesca Caccini’s Compositions on the Accompanying CD
1 Figliuola del celebratissimo Giulio Romano
2 “To win the girl”; or, Francesca as Object of Desire
3 Power, Desire, and Women among Themselves
4 Musica to the Granducato
5 Who Was This Woman?
6 Voice Lessons: Introducing the Primo libro delle musiche
7 Being, Doing, and Allegories of Voice
8 After Arianna
9 La liberazione di Ruggiero amid the Politics of Regency
10 Performance, Musical Design, and Politics in La liberazione di Ruggiero
11 Cataclysms of Widowhood
12 Afterlives
Appendix A. Francesca Caccini’s Known Performances and Compositions
Appendix B. Letters of Francesca Caccini, 1610–1641
Appendix C. Cristoforo Bronzini, Della dignità e nobiltà delle donne, I-Fn, Magl. VIII. 1525/1, 54–77
Notes
Bibliography
Index