Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi as Cultural Mediator: gender and writing on art in early nineteenth-century Venice

Dalton, Susan

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“…3546, 131, 132, 133. 5 On Giustina Michiel Renier seeDalton (2009).6 On Isabella Teotochi-Albrizzi and her work seeDalton (2006Dalton ( , 2014.11 TRANS-ADRIATIC ENLIGHTENMENTS: MARIA ……”

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Trans-Adriatic Enlightenments: Maria Petrettini’s Italian Translation of the Turkish Embassy Letters

Papalexopoulou

2024

New Transculturalisms, 1400–1800

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In 1838, Maria Petrettini, a Greco-Venetian aristocrat, published a translation of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Turkish Embassy Letters from English into Italian. In this paper, taking as a focal point Petrettini’s translation of the Letters, I aim to unravel the story of two parallel texts that challenged religious and political presuppositions. In the work of Petrettini and Montagu, the view of the Turk as a savage is deconstructed through a gendered perspective. The writer and the translator propose that a traveller can know a foreign land only if they are able to penetrate all aspects of public and private life; a feat that only a female scholar can accomplish. Apart from the importance of the Letters and their translation, focusing on a scholar like Maria Petrettini allows us to broaden our gaze to the intellectual possibilities available to high class women in the North-Eastern Mediterranean; the multiple strategies for women’s political representation within an era of Revolutions; the mosaic of religious, political and ethnic affiliations and the ways in which Enlightenment and Romantic ideas merged into each other within the framework of the Greco-Italian intellectual milieu providing us with a transcultural, trans-Adriatic Enlightenment.

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“…3546, 131, 132, 133. 5 On Giustina Michiel Renier seeDalton (2009).6 On Isabella Teotochi-Albrizzi and her work seeDalton (2006Dalton ( , 2014.11 TRANS-ADRIATIC ENLIGHTENMENTS: MARIA ……”

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Trans-Adriatic Enlightenments: Maria Petrettini’s Italian Translation of the Turkish Embassy Letters

Papalexopoulou

2024

New Transculturalisms, 1400–1800

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The Female Sublime: Domesticating Luigia Todi’s Voice

Peritz¹

2021

Journal of the American Musicological Society

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This article delves into the puzzling reception of opera singer Luigia Todi (1753–1833) in order to explore how the traces left by pre-phonographic voices contain long-forgotten cultural histories. Operagoers in 1790s Venice claimed that Todi’s moral qualities allowed her to overcome her “vocal defects,” and, in turn, taught her listeners to become good citizens. Hearing vocal difficulties as a manifestation of interiority, rather than as poor training, marked a significant departure from what were then the predominant aesthetics of operatic voice. In attempting to smooth over this gap, listeners pieced together narratives about Todi’s subjectivity based on the unstable, fragmented sounds of her voice. This article argues that such remediations of Todi’s singing were subtended by two seemingly irreconcilable ontologies of female voice, one of them rooted in ancient myths of sublime song and the other born of Enlightenment ideologies of domesticity. I thus read inscriptions of Todi’s voice through a network of late eighteenth-century Italian cultural anxieties, drawing on literary reimaginings of Sappho, debates over the nature of musical skill, discourses on women’s education, and more. By interrogating the narratives about one woman’s unusual voice, I offer a new origin story for still resonant assumptions about the relationships between gender and disability, politics and domestic labor, and, fundamentally, bodies and voices.

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Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi as Cultural Mediator: gender and writing on art in early nineteenth-century Venice

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Trans-Adriatic Enlightenments: Maria Petrettini’s Italian Translation of the Turkish Embassy Letters

Trans-Adriatic Enlightenments: Maria Petrettini’s Italian Translation of the Turkish Embassy Letters

The Female Sublime: Domesticating Luigia Todi’s Voice

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