Recent studies of Gl’Ingannati have offered keen insights into its ground-breaking take on the intersection of gender confusion and erotic attraction, often locating the play’s importance in its cross-dressing heroine, Lelia. Yet this research leaves room for considerations of the whole context of the performance event, especially in relation to Il Sacrificio, a performance presented earlier by the Accademici degli Intronati, and how specific moments were performed on stage. This article suggests that, as salient and significant an innovation as Lelia is, the Intronati’s performance of Gl’Ingannati is even more conspicuous as a negotiation of anxieties arising from a troublesome combination of oeconomia and eros in performance. Reading the many aspects of the play in which non-normative gender and eros intersect with neoclassical comic theory and practice reveals anxiety about the implications of these intersections, in turn uncovering moments clearly created to compensate for those implications. Three means of compensation are legible in the play: the complicated depiction of the pedant, Messer Piero, as a sodomite; the repeated articulation of a fear that any male, young or old, could express sodomitical desire; and numerous graphic descriptions of virile heteroeroticism.

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• Burriss, C. S., (2025), "Troubling Doubling, Exceptional Oeconomia, and Compensation in Gl’Ingannati", HSSCommons: (DOI: )

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Original publication: Burriss, Catherine Scott. "Troubling Doubling, Exceptional Oeconomia, and Compensation in Gl’Ingannati." Quaderni d'italianistica 34 (1): 2013. 65-91. DOI: 10.33137/q.i..v34i1.19873. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Quaderni d'italianistica. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Quaderni d'italianistica under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.