Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Abate Metastasio

Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Abate Metastasio
Author: Charles Burney
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2010-10-31
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1108014658

Volume 2 of Burney's 1796 account of the colourful life of Pietro Metastasio (1698-1782), covers his success in Vienna.

Mary Shelley's Literary Lives and Other Writings

Mary Shelley's Literary Lives and Other Writings
Author: Nora Crook
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 1909
Release: 2022-07-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000743861

This collection covers the lyrical poetry of Mary Shelley, as well as her writings for Lardner's "Cabinet Cyclopaedia of Biography" and some other materials only recently attributed to her.

Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment

Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment
Author: Rebecca Cypess
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2022-05-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226817911

Musical salons as liminal spaces: salonnières as agents of musical culture -- Sensuality, sociability, and sympathy: musical salon practices as enactments of Enlightenment --Ephemerae and authorship in the salon of Madame Brillon -- Composition, collaboration, and the cultivation of skill in the salon of Marianna Martines -- The cultural work of collecting and performing in the salon of Sara Levy -- Musical improvisation and poetic painting in the salon of Angelica Kauffman -- Reading musically in the salon of Elizabeth Graeme -- Conclusion.