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Emanuele Senici, '“A sturdy, tenacious memory": The Italian Discourse of Rossini’s Self-borrowing'

Emanuele Senici is Professor of Music History at the University of Rome La Sapienza. He is author of «La clemenza di Tito» di Mozart: I primi trent’anni, 1791-1821 (Brepols, 1997) and Landscape and Gender in Italian Opera: The Alpine Virgin from Bellini to Puccini (Cambridge University Press, 2005), editor of the Cambridge Companion to Rossini(Cambridge University Press, 2004), co-editor, with Arman Schwartz, of Giacomo Puccini and His World (Princeton University Press, 2016), and former co-editor of the Cambridge Opera Journal. A monograph on Rossini’s Italian operas is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press.