Vol. 7 (2018): Out Loud: Practices of Reading and Reciting in Early Modern Times edited by Riccardo Bruscagli and Luca Degl’Innocenti
Part Two - Case Studies

‘Donna il cui carme gli animi soggioga’: Eighteenth-Century Italian Women Improvisers

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  • Antonella Giordano
Antonella Giordano
Laboratorio editoriale OA / Dip. LILSI
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13128/JEMS-2279-7149-22841

Published 2018-03-10

How to Cite

Giordano, A. (2018). ‘Donna il cui carme gli animi soggioga’: Eighteenth-Century Italian Women Improvisers. Journal of Early Modern Studies, 7, 139–155. https://doi.org/10.13128/JEMS-2279-7149-22841
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Abstract

The article, by way of the careers of two of the most famous eighteenth century Italian improvisers, Corilla Olimpica and Teresa Bandettini, investigates the way in which favourable socio-cultural circumstances allowed a number of Italian women living in the 18th century to make use of the widespread fashion of their time for extempore poetry to excel in an occupation, gaining success together with acceptance and advancement in society, thus taking one of the earliest steps forward in the history of women’s liberation.

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