The castrato and his wife /
"Ranging from the grand palaces and opera houses of eighteenth-century Europe to the pleasure gardens and debtors' prisons of London, at the heart of this book is an unconventional love story--of the elopement between the famous castrato Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci and his young bride Dorot...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2011.
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| Summary: | "Ranging from the grand palaces and opera houses of eighteenth-century Europe to the pleasure gardens and debtors' prisons of London, at the heart of this book is an unconventional love story--of the elopement between the famous castrato Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci and his young bride Dorothea Maunsell. Set in a world of high art and celebrity, The Castrato and His Wife is the tale of a scandalous marriage that gripped Georgian society, and the hidden tragedy of where it all began--with the castration of a young boy in a remote hill town in Tuscany."--P. [4] of jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 312 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199569816 (hbk.) 0199569819 (hbk.) |