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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: ART AND CULTURE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Volume 8 THE LAST TROUBADOURS THE LAST TROUBADOURS Poetic Drama in Italian Opera, 1597–1887 DEIRDRE O’GRADY Firstpublishedin1991byRoutledge Thiseditionfirstpublishedin2019 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,OxonOX144RN andbyRoutledge 711ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninforma business ©1991DeirdreO’Grady Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedor reproducedorutilisedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical, orothermeans,nowknownorhereafterinvented,including photocopyingandrecording,orinanyinformationstorageor retrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthepublishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksor registeredtrademarks,andareusedonlyforidentificationand explanationwithoutintenttoinfringe. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary ISBN:978-1-138-35894-2(Set) ISBN:978-0-429-42671-1(Set)(ebk) ISBN:978-1-138-36512-4(Volume8)(hbk) ISBN:978-0-429-43090-9(Volume8)(ebk) Publisher’sNote Thepublisherhasgonetogreatlengthstoensurethequalityofthis reprintbutpointsoutthatsomeimperfectionsintheoriginalcopies maybeapparent. Disclaimer Thepublisherhasmadeeveryefforttotracecopyrightholdersand wouldwelcomecorrespondencefromthosetheyhavebeenunableto trace. THE LAST TROUBADOURS Poetic drama in Italian opera 1597-1887 Deirdre Q'Grady London and New York To my mother First published 1991 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge a division of Routledge, Chapman and Hall, Inc. 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 © 1991 Deirdre O'Grady Typeset in 10/12pt Garamond by Input Typesetting Ltd, London Printed and bound in Great Britain by TJ Press (Padstow) Ltd All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data O'Grady, Deirdre The last troubadours: poetic drama in Italian opera, 1597-1887. 1. Opera in Italian, history I. Title 782.10945 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data O'Grady, Deirdre. The last troubadours: poetic drama in Italian opera 1597-1887/ Deirdre O'Grady. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. 1. Libretto. 2. Librettists—Italy. 3. Opera—Italy. I. Title. ML2110.04 1991 782.1'026'80945-dc20 90-32869 ISBN 0-415-05459-1 CONTENTS List of illustrations ix Introduction xi Acknowledgements xiii Part I Baroque, Arcadian and Enlightenment influences 1 ARISTOCRATIC BEGINNINGS IN FLORENCE, MANTUA AND ROME 3 2 POPULAR SUCCESS AND MATURITY IN VENICE: BUSENELLO, BADOARO AND CICOGNINI 28 3 INNOVATION AND REFORM: ZENO, METASTASIO AND CALZABIGI 42 4 OF SERVANTS AND MASTERS: FEDERICO, GOLDONI AND DA PONTE 64 Part II The expression of individualism 5 A CRY FOR FREEDOM: HIGH PRIESTS AND PATRIOTS 99 6 OF REASON AND DELIRIUM 128 7 JESTER, TROUBADOUR AND COURTESAN 152 8 THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE: EVIL IN THE WORKS OF ARRIGO BOITO 180 Notes 202 Select bibliography 223 Index 228 Vll
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