About the Author

Kelley Harness is associate professor of music at the University of Minnesota.

Reviews

"Harness argues very convincingly that through their patronage of the figurative arts, musical theater, and early opera, the Medici women reinforced their position and their image as powerful women and capable rulers. The subject is original and the research is impressive." - Elissa B. Weaver, author of Convent Theatre in Early Modern Italy"