Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court

Foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson 

Preface 

Acknowledgments 

Abbreviations 

Note to the Reader

Excerpts from Francesca Caccini’s Compositions on the Accompanying CD

1 Figliuola del celebratissimo Giulio Romano 

2 “To win the girl”; or, Francesca as Object of Desire 

3 Power, Desire, and Women among Themselves 

4 Musica to the Granducato 

5 Who Was This Woman? 

6 Voice Lessons: Introducing the Primo libro delle musiche 

7 Being, Doing, and Allegories of Voice 

8 After Arianna 

9 La liberazione di Ruggiero amid the Politics of Regency 

10 Performance, Musical Design, and Politics in La liberazione di Ruggiero  

11 Cataclysms of Widowhood 

12 Afterlives 

Appendix A. Francesca Caccini’s Known Performances and Compositions 

Appendix B. Letters of Francesca Caccini, 1610–1641 

Appendix C. Cristoforo Bronzini, Della dignità e nobiltà delle donne, I-Fn, Magl. VIII. 1525/1, 54–77 

Notes  

Bibliography