{"product_id":"9781649590855","title":"Letters : Volume 100 by Caterina Mongiat Farina","description":"A collection of inventive writings in letter form from a sixteenth-century star of commedia dell'arte.    Isabella Andreini (1562-1604) was a commedia dell'arte diva who toured Italy and France as part of the Compagnia?dei Comici Gelosi. Letters is a collection of epistles written by Andreini in fictional, anonymous, male, and female voices, a \"hermaphroditic\" alternation of gender unlike any that had been seen in letter writing to that time. In her letters, Andreini remade the humanistic epistolary genre into a distinctive fusion of literary and dramatic performance. The guise of epistolary intimacy cedes to a knowing artificiality, which allows for the emergence of Andreini's modern critique of the gendered self as a uniform entity. The collection centers on love and examines-from surprising perspectives-pertinent issues such as death, the birth of a girl, prostitution, patriarchal marital practices, love in old age, courtiership, country and city life, human nature, and defenses and critiques of both sexes.    ?\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56312735269237,"sku":"9781649590855","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781649590855.jpg?v=1762823543","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781649590855","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}