Wendy Heller, Emblems of Eloquence: Opera and Women's Voices in Seventeenth-Century Venice. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xvi+386pp. Bonnie Gordon, Monteverdi's Unruly Women: The Power of Song in Early Modern Italy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. x+234pp.

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Wendy Heller, <i>Emblems of Eloquence: Opera and Women's Voices in Seventeenth-Century Venice</i>. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xvi+386pp. Bonnie Gordon, <i>Monteverdi's Unruly Women: The Power of Song in Early Modern Italy</i>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. x+234pp.