On May 16, drama history professor Eric Nicholson and communications professor Elia Nichols, both professional actors, performed two lovers’ debates from Isabella Andreini’s Lovers’ Debates for the Stage at the University of Verona.
The performance accompanied a book presentation of this text co-translated and co-edited by Dr. Nicholson with Pamela Allen Brown and Julie D. Campbell and published by the University of Chicago/ITER Press in 2023.
Isabella Andreini was a successful theater actress, writer and poet in the late 16th century, even performing with her husband for the 1589 wedding of Ferdinand I de Medici to Christina of Lorraine.