Congratulations Dr. Clorinda Donato on the publication of “The Life and Legend of Catterina Vizzani: Sexual identity, science and sensationalism in Eighteenth-Century Italy and England”
New in the series:
The Life and Legend of Catterina Vizzani: Sexual identity, science and sensationalism in Eighteenth-Century Italy and England
By Clorinda Donato
A transcultural examination of gender fluidity and transgendered lifestyles informs the narration and analysis of Catterina Vizzani’s story featured in this volume. Early modern anatomist Giovanni Bianchi’s 1744 medical novella about Vizzani, published here in Italian with a modern English translation, is juxtaposed with John Cleland’s sensationalized 1751 translation. A scintillating reflection on transcultural sexualities and trans historicities that significantly revises our view of enlightenment sexualities.
- The first book on transgendered identity in early modern Italy and England and the scientific and social debates sparked by the case of Catterina Vizzani.
- The science of sex in eighteenth-century Italy and England and the ongoing transhistorical debate over gender identity, fluidity and performativity are the stuff of this timely volume.
- This volume uses Giovanni Bianchi’s rare Italian source text on Catterina Vizzani/Giovanni Bordoni and John Cleland’s 1751 translation-adaptation to chart the distance in perspective over sexual identity in Italy and England, revealing a surprisingly modern, transcultural debate and a model of trans history.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Clorinda Donato is Professor of French and Italian at California State University, Long Beach, where she holds the George L. Graziadio Chair for Italian Studies and directs the Clorinda Donato Center for Global Romance Languages and Translation Studies. She is an eighteenth-century scholar who researches knowledge transfer through translation and genre adaptation in encyclopedic compilations. She also works on gender in medical and literary accounts.
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