Opera and Political Opinion in Nineteenth-Century Italy, 1815-1848
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Mary Ann Smart is Gladyce Arata Terrill Professor in the Department of Music at the University of California, Berkeley. She is author of Mimomania: Music and Gesture in Nineteenth-Century Opera and editor of Siren Songs: Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Opera.
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1 Risorgimento Fantasies 2 Accidental Affinities: Gioachino Rossini and Salvatore Vigan 3 Elizabeth I, Mary Stuart, and the Limits of Allegory 4 Reading Mazzinis Filosofia della musica with Byron and Donizetti 5 Parlor Games 6 Progress, Piety, and Plagiarism: Verdis I Lombardi at La Scala Conclusion Notes 185 Index