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The Divine Madness of Isabella Andreini

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Anne Macneil
Anne Macneil*
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      Nel giorno, che sublime in bassi manti
      Isabella imitava alto furore;
      Estolta con angelici sembianti
      Ebbe del senno altrui gloria maggiore;
      Alhor saggia tra 'I suon, saggia tra i canti
      Non mosse piè, che non sorgesse Amore,
      Né voce aprì, che non creasse amanti,
      Né riso fè, che non beasse un core.
      Chi fu quel giorno a rimirar felice
      Di tutt'altro quaggiù cesse il desio,
      Che sua vita per sempre ebbe serena.
      O di Scena dolcissima Sirena,
      O de' Teatri Italici Fenice,
      O tra Coturni insuperabil Clio.
      Gabriello Chiabrera

In the spring of 1589, the commedia dell'arte company known as the Gelosi travelled to Florence in order to perform for the wedding of Grand Duke Ferdinando de' Medici and Christine of Lorraine. The Gelosi were among the very best commedia dell'arte players of the time, their fame heralded throughout the noble and royal households of western Europe.

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Journal of the Royal Musical Association , Volume 120 , Issue 2 , 1995 , pp. 195 - 215
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Preliminary versions of this article were read at the American Academy in Rome and at the University of Rome (La Sapienza) in 1991 and at the 58th Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 7 November 1992 Isabella Andreini's 1589 performance ol La pazzia d'Isabella is also discussed in chapter 2 of my doctoral dissertation, ‘Music and the Life and Work of Isabella Andreini Humanistic Attitudes toward Music, Poetry, and Theater in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries’ (Ph D dissertation, University of Chicago, 1994), 55-102 This article is dedicated to Steven BrookeGoogle Scholar

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The day on which, sublime in lowly cloaks,Google Scholar

Isabella imitated high madness,Google Scholar

And exalted with angelic featuresGoogle Scholar

Had greater glory from the wisdom of others,Google Scholar

Then, wise among the sound, wise among the songs, She did not move a foot that did not bring forth Amore, Nor lifted voice that did not create lovers, Nor made a smile that did not delight a heartGoogle Scholar

Whoever was that day to gaze happily. For all else of this world desire ceased, That his life forever was sereneGoogle Scholar

Ol of the stage sweetest Siren,Google Scholar

Ol of Italian theatres the Fenice,Google Scholar

Ol among Thespians unsurpassable ClioGoogle Scholar

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17 Michael C J Putnam, ‘Virgil and History’ (lecture, University of Chicago, 9 January 1995), outlined these Apollonian and Bacchic attributes in his reading of the intersignificance of history and literature in the AeneidGoogle Scholar

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Avenne, che mentre ponevano l'ordine di questa fuga, Flavio, che stava in disparte nascosto, udi tutti li ragionamenti passati tra l'amata, & il suo rivale, & ne prese tanto cordoglio, quanto si può imaginare chi habbi provato simili tormenti La onde si dispose servirsi di questa occasione, e per tal via conseguire la sua amata Isabella, come fece Così venuta l'hora dell'accordo ma un poco prima, comparve Flavio, & con li cenni, che Fileno dovea dare ad Isabella si fece udire la quale subito n'uscì di casa, & fu raccolta con tanto contento di Flavio, che più non si può imaginare & così alla muta se n'andarono ne appena hebbero volte le spalle, che comparve Fileno col servitore, & fatti li cenni ordinati, non comparve mai nessuno. Alla fine la serva si fece fuori dell'uscio, & disse a Fileno, che non trovava la Patrona, & cercando di nuovo per casa, non la seppe mai ritrovare la onde il misero, & infelice Fileno venne in tal dispiacere, che cominciò a farneticare, col discorrere fra se ove se ne potesse essere andata, & tanto immerso stette in questi pensieri, che come insano, over pazzo divenne, uscendo fuori di se stesso L'Isabella in tanto trovandosi ingannata dall'insidie di Flavio, ne sapendo pigliar rimedio al suo male, si diede del tutto in preda al dolore, & così vinta dalla passione, e lasciandosi superare alla rabbia, & al furore uscì fuori di se stessa, & come pazza se n'andava scorrendo per la Cittade, [] 'Google Scholar

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27 Hanning, ‘Glorious Apollo’, eadem, Of Poetry and Music's Power, eadem, ‘Apologia pro Ottavio Rinuccini’ The imagery of the pastoral landscape and its significance for musical performance in sixteenth-century pastoral plays was further discussed in my paper ‘Music in the Pastoral Landscape’, read at the 60th Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society in Minneapolis, 30 October 1994Google Scholar

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31 Ericius Puteanus to Isabella Andreini, Milan, 9 November 1601 Puteanus later published his letters to Isabella in Eryci Puteant epistolarum ferculo secunda Ad clariss V Ludovicum Septalium, patrictum & medicum mediolanensi Adiuncta eloquentiae auspicio secunda (Hanover, 1603) The entire correspondence is recorded in Charles Ruelens, Erycius Puteanus et Isabelle Andreini Lecture faite à l'Académie d'Archéologie le 3 Février 1889 (Antwerp, 1889) A transcription and translation of the letters may be found in my ‘Music and the Life and Work of Isabella Andreini’, 403–34, my heartfelt thanks to Michael and Christopher Siciliano for their assistance in translating Puteanus's sometimes tortuous proseGoogle Scholar

32 The relationship between Isabella and Chiabrera is briefly outlined in A Bruno, Gabriello Chiabrera e Isabella Andreini (estratto dal Bulleltino della Società Storica Savonese, Anno I N 1) (Savona, 1891) Further evidence of their friendship may be seen in the sonnet Chiabrera wrote for Isabella that appears at the beginning of this article and in the canzonette morali Isabella composed in tribute to her Genoese colleague, ‘Vago di posseder l'indico argento’, prefaced by the note ‘Nessuna cosa esser più durabile della Virtù’ (‘Nothing to be more lasting than virtue’), and ‘Faccia al gran Marte risonar le ‘ncudi’, with the motto ‘Che la virtù fa il vero Principe’ (That virtue makes the true Prince’), Isabella Andreini, Rime d'Isabella Andreini, padovana, comica gelosa (Milan, 1601), 20, 23 Others of Isabella's scherzi, dedicated to Chiabrera in later editions of her Rime, include ‘Io credèa che tra gli amanti’ and ‘Movea dolce un zefiretto’ Claudio Monteverdi's relationship with the Andreini family was established mainly through Isabella's son, Giovanni Battista, and his wife, Virginia Ramponi Andreini Monteverdi collaborated with Muzio Effrem, Salamone Rossi and Alessandro Ghivizzani in setting Giovanni Battista's La maddalena to music, and Virginia created the title role in the first performance of Monteverdi's Arianna Both generations of the Andreini family and Monteverdi shared the patronage of the Gonzaga court in Milan See my 'Music and the Life and Work of Isabella Andreini, 1–54Google Scholar

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