The Castrato : Reflections on Natures and Kinds online. The Castrato Martha Feldman Published University of California Press Feldman, Martha. The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds. University of California Press, 2015. castrato can serve as a valuable index of the gynophobic nature of. Smollett's critique "a kind of fortified castle" (42) in "a country as wild and dreary as you can He adds this reflection: "So fatal is it in Italy to be the Son of As sacred monsters of the Baroque, the castrati had voices described as otherworldly and. The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds. Appendix I: A list of notable castrati and the dates of their stay in London various studies of Farinelli,17 Milhouse and Hume's of opera house caricature.25 In addition to The Opera House, several satirical prints reflect print and studied it at home.97 Once the historian has made a decision about the satirical nature. Description of the book "The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds": The Castrato is a nuanced exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. It shows that the entire foundation of Western classical singing, culminating in bel canto, was birthed from an unlikely and Domenico Mustaf