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  • Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation

    par Shannon McHugh, Anna Wainwright, Amedeo Quondam, Virginia Cox, Lisa Bourla, Gerry Milligan, Eugenio Refini, Lisa Sampson, Sarah Gwyneth Ross0, Gabriella Zarri1, Monica Calabritto2, Armando Maggi3, Joseph Perna4, Lynn Lara Westwater5 ...
    Collections series The Early Modern Exchange
    The enduring "black legend" of the Italian Counter-Reformation, which has held sway in both scholarly and popular culture, maintains that the Council of Trent ushered in a cultural dark age in Italy, snuffing out the spectacular creative production of the Renaissance. As a result, the decades following Trent have been mostly overlooked in Italian literary studies, in particular. The thirteen ... En savoir plus

    $80.99 CAD

  • Moral Combat

    Women, Gender, and War in Italian Renaissance Literature

    par Gerry Milligan ...
    Collections series Toronto Italian Studies
    The Italian sixteenth century offers the first sustained discussion of women’s militarism since antiquity. Across a variety of genres, male and female writers raised questions about women’s right and ability to fight in combat. Treatise literature engaged scientific, religious, and cultural discourses about women’s virtues, while epic poetry and biographical literature famously featured examples ... En savoir plus

    $69.99 CAD

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  • Reading Dante

    From Here to Eternity

    par Prue Shaw ...
    The best and most eloquent introduction to Dante for our time.Prue Shaw is one of the world's foremost authorities on Dante. Written with the general reader in mind, Reading Dante brings her knowledge to bear in an accessible yet expert introduction to his great poem.This is far more than an exegesis of Dante’s three-part Commedia. Shaw communicates the imaginative power, the linguistic skill and ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Dante Encyclopedia

    Modifié par Richard Lansing ...
    Available for the first time in paperback, this essential resource presents a systematic introduction to Dante's life and works, his cultural context and intellectual legacy.The only such work available in English, this Encyclopedia:brings together contemporary theories on Dante, summarizing them in clear and vivid proseprovides in-depth discussions of the Divine Comedy, looki... ... En savoir plus

    $147.99 CAD

  • A Short History of the Italian Renaissance

    par Virginia Cox ...
    Collections series Short Histories
    The extraordinary creative energy of Renaissance Italy lies at the heart of modern western culture. This creativity extended far beyond the visual arts and architecture: dress history, dance history, food history, ritual and ceremonial all contributed to this vibrant rebirth. Virginia Cox here explores the material and economic output of the period, from the late 13th to the 16th century, when ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

  • Venice Reconsidered

    The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297-1797

    par John Jeffries Martin, Dennis Romano ...
    This collection of essays on centuries of culture and politics is "likely to become a landmark in Venetian historiography" ( The Historical Journal).Venice Reconsidered offers a dynamic portrait of Venice from the establishment of the Republic at the end of the thirteenth century to its fall to Napoleon in 1797. In contrast to earlier efforts to categorize Venice's politics as strictly republican ... En savoir plus

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  • Armour and Masculinity in the Italian Renaissance

    par Carolyn Springer ...
    During the Italian Wars of 1494 to 1559, with innovations in military technology and tactics, armour began to disappear from the battlefield. Yet as field armour was retired, parade and ceremonial armour grew increasingly flamboyant. Displaced from its utilitarian function of defense but retained for symbolic uses, armour evolved in a new direction as a medium of artistic expression.Luxury armour ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • Giuliano de' Medici

    Machiavelli's Prince in Life and Art

    par Josephine Jungic ...
    Most modern historians perpetuate the myth that Giuliano de' Medici (1479-1516), son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, was nothing more than an inconsequential, womanizing hedonist with little inclination or ability for politics. In the first sustained biography of this misrepresented figure, Josephine Jungic re-evaluates Giuliano’s life and shows that his infamous reputation was exaggerated by Medici ... En savoir plus

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  • Parlour Games and the Public Life of Women in Renaissance Italy

    par George W. McClure ...
    Confined by behavioural norms and professional restrictions, women in Renaissance Italy found a welcome escape in an alternative world of play. This book examines the role of games of wit in the social and cultural experience of patrician women from the early sixteenth to the early eighteenth century.Beneath the frivolous exterior of such games as occasions for idle banter, flirtation, and ... En savoir plus

    $74.99 CAD

  • Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature

    Dante, Petrarch, Cavalcanti, and the Authority of the Vernacular

    par Martin Eisner ...
    Collections Livre 87 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    Giovanni Boccaccio played a pivotal role in the extraordinary emergence of the Italian literary tradition in the fourteenth century, not only as author of the Decameron, but also as scribe of Dante, Petrarch and Cavalcanti. Using a single codex written entirely in Boccaccio's hand, Martin Eisner brings together material philology and literary history to reveal the multiple ways Boccaccio ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance

    Language, Philosophy, and the Search for Meaning

    par Christopher S. Celenza ...
    In this book, Christopher Celenza provides an intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance during the long fifteenth century, from c.1350–1525. His book fills a bibliographic gap between Petrarch and Machiavelli and offers clear case studies of contemporary luminaries, including Leonardo Bruni, Poggio Bracciolini, Lorenzo Valla, Marsilio Ficino, Angelo Poliziano, and Pietro Bembo. Integrating ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

  • Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society

    par Letizia Panizza ...
    "An impressive collection of 29 essays by British, American and Italian scholars on important historical, artistic, cultural, social, legal, literary and theatrical aspects of women's contributions to the Italian Renaissance, in its broadest sense. Many contributions are the result of first-hand archival research and are illustrated with numerous unpublished or little-known reproductions or ... En savoir plus

    $153.90 CAD