Review of Kelley Harness. 2006. Echoes of Women’s Voices: Music, Art, and Female Patronage in Early Modern Florence. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press by Melanie L. Marshall

“…The concept of patronage as a means of fashioning a public identity is familiar, but aside from William Prizer’s articles on Isabella d’Este and Lucrezia Borgia (e.g., 1982; 1985; 1999), and studies of convents by Robert Kendrick (1996), Craig Monson (1995), and Colleen Reardon (1996; 2002), there is little substantial work on women’s musical patronage in Italy. …”
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