A fascinating insight into the life and music-making of the most documented musician of the seventeenth century, castrato Atto Melani.

The opera singer Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci was one of the most famous celebrities of the eighteenth century. In collaboration with the English composer Thomas

At the center of this interdisciplinary study are court monsters--dwarves, hirsutes, and misshapen individuals--who, by their very presence, altered Renaissance

Implements stories of surgical alteration to consider how early modern individuals conceived the relationship between body, mind, and self.

The Castrato is a nuanced exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. It shows that