Letters

Isabella Andreini (1562–1604) was an Italian actress and writer. Paola De Santo is assistant professor of Italian at the University of Georgia. Caterina Mongiat Farina is associate professor of Italian at DePaul University.  

Acknowledgments

Illustrations

Introduction
The Other Voice
Life, Works, and Authorship
Isabella Andreini and Women’s Writing in Early Modern Italy
The Question of Genre: Pushing the Boundaries of the Letterbook
Summary and Analysis of the Letters
Love as the Beginning, Middle, and End of the Letters
A Discordant Harmony: Paired and Thematically Grouped Letters
The Actress as Writer: Thematic and Stylistic Aspects of the Letters
Rhetoric and the questione della donna in the Letters
Reception and Afterlife
Translators’ Note

Letters of Isabella Andreini
Permission
Dedicatory Letter
Encomiastic Verses and Anagrams
Table of All the Letters Contained in the Work
Letters

Appendix
Comparative Table of the Letters’ Summaries: 1607 Edition and This Edition
Gender Designations of Letter Writers and Recipients

Bibliography
Index