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9 The Courtesan’s Singing Body as Cultural Capital in Seventeenth-Century Italy
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Published:March 2006
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When courtesans trafficked in song, they engaged forces that were not just immaterial but material and that were altogether more potent than sex or money. Itself a form of bodily exchange, song both enthralled and threatened the male admirer and the social fabric that surrounded him. Carrying an ambivalent but almost magical power, the courtesan’s singing voice moved from the mouth of the singer to penetrate the ears of the unwitting (but often willing) male victim. Accosting body and soul, song could force submission to any number of threatening temptations, enticing a loss of control and reason that led to a wide variety of salacious activities. Song, like love, could inflame the soul and arouse a violent carnal desire that might come with fever, chills, and other remarkable effects.
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