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  • The Other Renaissance

    Italian Humanism between Hegel & Heidegger

    de Rocco Rubini ...
    A natural heir of the Renaissance and once tightly conjoined to its study, continental philosophy broke from Renaissance studies around the time of World War II. In The Other Renaissance, Rocco Rubini achieves what many have attempted to do since: bring them back together. Telling the story of modern Italian philosophy through the lens of Renaissance scholarship, he recovers a strand of ... Leer más

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    Inventing Tradition from Petrarch to Gramsci

    de Rocco Rubini ...
    Reading a range of Italian works, Rubini considers the active transmittal of traditions through generations of writers and thinkers.Rocco Rubini studies the motives and literary forms in the making of a "tradition," not understood narrowly, as the conservative, stubborn preservation of received conventions, values, and institutions, but instead as the deliberate effort on the part of writers to ... Leer más

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    From Here to Eternity

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  • Social History of Art, Volume 2

    Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque

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  • Italian Literature: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

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  • Fairy-Tale Science

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  • Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures

    Series series Essays in the Arts
    The skirmish between painting and poetry—from Plato and Praxiteles to Rembrandt and ShakespeareWhy do painters sometimes wish they were poets—and why do poets sometimes wish they were painters? What happens when Rembrandt spells out Hebrew in the sky or Poussin spells out Latin on a tombstone? What happens when Virgil, Ovid, or Shakespeare suspend their plots to describe a fictitious painting? In ... Leer más

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  • Pasolini

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    Poet, novelist, dramatist, polemicist, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini continues to be one of the most influential intellectuals of post-war Italy. In Pasolini: The Sacred Flesh, Stefania Benini examines his corporeal vision of the sacred, focusing on his immanent interpretation of the Christian doctrine of the Incarnation and the “sacred flesh” of Christ in both Passion and Death as the ... Leer más

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  • The Worlds of Petrarch

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    At the center of Petrarch's vision, announcing a new way of seeing the world, was the individual, a sense of the self that would one day become the center of modernity as well. This self, however, seemed to be fragmented in Petrarch's work, divided among the worlds of philosophy, faith, and love of the classics, politics, art, and religion, of Italy, France, Greece, and Rome. In recent decades ... Leer más

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