This volume of essays discusses the European and global expansion of Italian opera and the significance of this process for debates on opera at home in Italy. C
The years between roughly 1760 and 1810, a period stretching from the rise of Joseph Haydn’s career to the height of Ludwig van Beethoven’s, are often viewe
America in Italy examines the influence of the American political experience on the imagination of Italian political thinkers between the late eighteenth centur
Following the American Revolution, French observers often viewed the United States as a laboratory for the forging of new practices of liberté and égalité, i