List of figures and tables List of contributors Abbreviations Acknowledgements 1 Context, life, legacy - Virginia Cox 1.1. Context 1.1.1. A troubled city: Lucca in the Cinquecento 1.1.2.
Poetry, music, and spectacle in Lucca 1.1.3. Women's participation in Lucchese cultural life 1.2. Life 1.2.1.
1559-1579. Girlhood and marriage (Lucca, Castelnuovo) 1.2.2. 1579-1584. Married life (Lucca, Florence, Ferrara) 1.2.3.
1585-1588. Widowhood, scandal, banishment (Ferrara, Lucca, Florence) 1.2.4. 1588. Poetic rehabilitation (Florence) 1.2.5.
1589-1598. Exile (Florence, Ferrara) 1.2.6. 1599-1603. The ridotto years (Lucca) 1.2.7.
1603-1616. Religious retreat (Lucca) 1.3. Legacy 1.4. Conclusion 1.5. Appendix: The scandal of 1588 in the chronicle of Lorenzo Trenta and in the open letter of Girolamo Sbarra 2 Clorilli and late-Renaissance theatre 2.
1. Bernardi's Clorilli and pastoral drama between Ferrara and Florence - Lisa Sampson 2.1.1. Pastoral drama: The Ferrarese tradition 2.1.2. Court and academies in Ferrara 2.
1.3. Bernardi's Clorilli: Structure and themes 2.1.4. Bernardi's pastoral in Florence: Contexts of performance 2.1.5.
Female pastoral in Florence: Drama, poetry and music 2.2. The Marciana manuscript of Clorilli - Lisa Sampson 2.2.1. Authorship, anonymity and agency 2.2.2.
The production of the Marciana manuscript 2.2.3. The diverse rime 2.2.4. Reception and transmission of Clorilli (Florence, Lucca and Venice) 2.2.
5. Appendix: Contents of the Marciana Codex, MS It. IX, 239 (=6999) 2.3. Clorilli Italian text edited by Lisa Sampson, translation by Anna Wainwright, and notes by Lisa Sampson and Anna Wainwright 2.3.1. Transcription criteria 2.
3.2. Text 2.3.3. Translation and notes 2.3.4.
Notes on translation 2.4. Green acts in green shades: adapting and staging Clorilli at Villa La Pietra, Florence, 2018 - Eric Nicholson 2.4.1. Green worlds 2.4.2.
Water 2.4.3. Rejections, separations, and confrontations 2.4.4. Projections and reunions 2.4.
5. Fusion, renewal, and community celebration 3 Bernardi's lyric verse and its musical settings 3.1. Leonora Bernardi, lyric poet - Virginia Cox 3.1.1. Sources 3.1.
2. The Marian Muse 3.1.3. In dialogue with Leonora Bernardi: Angelo Grillo 3.1.4. In dialogue with Leonora Bernardi: Ottavio Rinuccini 3.
1.5. Songs of love 3.2. The musical settings of Bernardi's verse - Eugenio Refini 3.2.1. Ferrarese echoes in madrigal settings of Bernardi's poetry 3.
2.2. Bernardi's 'tears' across polyphony and monody 3.2.3. Sienese connections and textual variants: The nymph's canzonetta 3.2.4.
Transcriptions of the musical settings - Davide Daolmi and Eugenio Refini Bibliography Index.