Letters by Isabella Andreini, Paola De Santo, Caterina Mongia... - 9781649590855

Iter Press

LettersAuthor(s): Isabella Andreini, Paola De Santo, Caterina Mongiat Farina, Paola De Santo, Caterina Mongiat Farina\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Iter Press, United States\nImprint: Iter Press\nISBN-13: 9781649590855, 978-1649590855\nSynopsis\nA collection of inventive writings in letter form from a sixteenth-century star of commedia dell'arte.\n\n Isabella Andreini [tel] was a commedia dellarte diva who toured Italy and France as part of the Compagniadei Comici Gelosi. Letters is a collection of epistles written by Andreini in fictional, anonymous, male, and female voices, a hermaphroditic alternation of gender unlike any that had been seen in letter writing to that time. In her letters, Andreini remade the humanistic epistolary genre into a distinctive fusion of literary and dramatic performance. The guise of epistolary intimacy cedes to a knowing artificiality, which allows for the emergence of Andreinis modern critique of the gendered self as a uniform entity. The collection c.