Italian Love
Title | Italian Love PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Ancillon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 1740 |
Genre | Eunuchs |
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Italian Love
Title | Italian Love PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Ancillon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 1758 |
Genre | English fiction |
ISBN |
The Castrato
Title | The Castrato PDF eBook |
Author | Martha Feldman |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 2016-08-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520292448 |
The Castrato is a nuanced exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. It shows that the entire foundation of Western classical singing, culminating in bel canto, was birthed from an unlikely and historically unique set of desires, public and private, aesthetic, economic, and political. In Italy, castration for singing was understood through the lens of Catholic blood sacrifice as expressed in idioms of offering and renunciation and, paradoxically, in satire, verbal abuse, and even the symbolism of the castrato’s comic cousin Pulcinella. Sacrifice in turn was inseparable from the system of patriarchy—involving teachers, patrons, colleagues, and relatives—whereby castrated males were produced not as nonmen, as often thought nowadays, but as idealized males. Yet what captivated audiences and composers—from Cavalli and Pergolesi to Handel, Mozart, and Rossini—were the extraordinary capacities of castrato voices, a phenomenon ultimately unsettled by Enlightenment morality. Although the castrati failed to survive, their musicality and vocality have persisted long past their literal demise.
Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England
Title | Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England PDF eBook |
Author | Alanna Skuse |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 211 |
Release | 2021-02-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108843611 |
Implements stories of surgical alteration to consider how early modern individuals conceived the relationship between body, mind, and self.
A History of Celibacy
Title | A History of Celibacy PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Abbott |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 504 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Celibacy |
ISBN | 0684849437 |
What causes people to give up sex? Abbott's provocative and entertaining exploration of celibacy through the ages debunks traditional notions about celibacy--a practice that reveals much about human sexual desires and drives.
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present
Title | History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Charle Remondino |
Publisher | |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 1900 |
Genre | Circumcision |
ISBN |
Catena Librorum Tacendorum
Title | Catena Librorum Tacendorum PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Spencer Ashbee |
Publisher | |
Pages | 676 |
Release | 1885 |
Genre | Erotic literature |
ISBN |