by her tender and touching expression". References L. Goldman (ed.), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, article "Cuzzoni, Francesca" by O. Baldwin and T. Wilson, consulted online 22 August 2007 C. Burney, A General History of Music (London, 1789), Vol.4 O. E. Deutsch, Handel, a Documentary Biography (London, 1955) J. Mainwaring, Memoirs of the Life of the late George Frederic Handel (London, 1760), p 110-111 [my translation of the first sentence - Handel spoke to Cuzzoni in French] G.B. Mancini, Pensieri e riflessioni pratiche sopra il canto figurato (Vienna, 1774) S Ograjenšek: "Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni: the Rival Queens?" 'Handel and the Divas' exhibition catalogue, Handel House Museum, London 2008, p 3-7 Further reading C. Wier, "A Nest of Nightingales: Cuzzoni and Senesino at Handel's Royal Academy of Music," article in Theatre Survey 51:2 (November 2010). 1778 deaths Italian operatic sopranos 18th-century Italian actresses Italian stage actresses 18th-century Italian women opera singers 1696 births Musicians from Parma