Author : Maria H. Loh
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 37,41 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Imitation in art
ISBN : 9780892368730
This insightful volumes the use of imitation and the modern cult of originality through a consideration of the disparate fates of two Venetian painters - the canonised master Titian and his artistic heir, the little-known Padovanino.
Author : Teodolinda Barolini
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,97 MB
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9047422880
This volume addresses one of the most far-reaching aspects of Petrarch research and interpretation: the essential interplay between Petrarch’s texts and their material preparation and reception. The essays look at various facets of the interaction between Petrarchan philology and hermeneutics, working from the premise that in Petrarch’s work philological issues are so authorially driven that we cannot in fact read or interpret him without understanding the relevant philological issues and reapplying them in our critical approach to his works. To read and interpret Petrarch we must come to grips with the fundamentals of Petrarchan philology. This volume aims to show how a Petrarchan hermeneutics must be based on an understanding of Petrarchan philology.
Author : Gaia Gubbini
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 26,70 MB
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110615983
A crucial question throughout the Middle Ages, the relationship between body and spirit cannot be understood without an interdisciplinary approach – combining literature, philosophy and medicine. Gathering contributions by leading international scholars from these disciplines, the collected volume explores themes such as lovesickness, the five senses, the role of memory and passions, in order to shed new light on the complex nature of the medieval Self.
Author : Paolo Sachet
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 11,72 MB
Release : 2020-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9004348654
In Publishing for the Popes, Paolo Sachet provides a detailed account of the attempts made by the Roman Curia to exploit printing in the mid-sixteenth century, after the Reformation but before the implementation of the ecclesiastical censorship.
Author : Valeria Finucci
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 21,57 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822322955
Edited collection discusses the first historically important debate on what constitutes modern literature, which focused on two 16th century works: ORLANDO FURIOSO and GERUSALEMME LIBERATA.
Author : Joel Elias Spingarn
Publisher :
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 37,67 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Criticism
ISBN :
An essay examining the history of literary criticism in the Renaissance, with a focus on the sixteenth century. Divided into three sections devoted to: Italian criticism from Dante to Tasso, French criticism from Du Bellay to Boileau, and English criticism from Ascham to Milton.
Author : Ptolemy of Lucca
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 18,56 MB
Release : 2010-11-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0812201337
Ptolemy, considered a proto-Humanist by some, combined the principles of Northern Italian republicanism with Aristotelian theory in his De Regimine Principum, a book that influenced much of the political thought of the later Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the early modern period. He was the first to attack kingship as despotism and to draw parallels between ancient Greek models of mixed constitution and the Roman Republic, biblical rule, the Church, and medieval government. In addition to his translation of this important and radical medieval political treatise, written around 1300, James M. Blythe includes a sixty-page introduction to the work and provides over 1200 footnotes that trace Ptolemy's sources, explain his references, and comment on the text, the translation, the context, and the significance.
Author : Carole Angier
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 13,96 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374113155
Perhaps the most important writer to emerge from the death camps, Primo Levi is known for "Survival in Auschwitz, The Reawakening, " and the classic "The Periodic Table." Angier has spent nearly ten years writing this meticulously researched, vivid, and moving biography.
Author : Baxter Hathaway
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 34,65 MB
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1501743449
In The Age of Criticism five key concepts of the literary criticism synthesized in the late Renaissance in Italy are examined in depth to show how the shape of literary attitudes in the whole modern world was considerably influenced and determined by sixteenth-century Italian philosophers and literary theorists. The five concepts examined are: poetry as imitation; poetry as a concrete-universal; poetry as a purgation; the poetic imagination; and the conflict between poetry as art and poetry as furor. For the sake of emphasizing the unity of the development of literary theory, the concern is almost entirely with the Italian writers of the period between 1540 and 1613, but the ultimate significance of their work lies in their contribution to the development of the culture of the West in modern times. Sperone Speroni, Ludovico Castelvetro, Francesco Patrizi, Giacopo Mazzoni, Torquato Tasso, and Paolo Beni emerge as literary critics of major importance.
Author : Frank J. Coppa
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 32,52 MB
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791401859
Coppa provides the first full-length study of Giacomo Antonelli, friend and advisor to Pope Pius IX (Pio Nono) and his Secretary of State and chief minister from 1849 to 1876. Based on the documents of the secret Vatican Archives, and neglected family papers in the State Archive in Rome, the book gives an important reevaluation of this key diplomatic figure, separating the man from the myth and delving into his character and policies. The book examines both the personality and policies of the Cardinal, who was seen to be the Popes Richelieu and Mazarin combined. Confronting the polemical literature which has charged him with sexual misconduct and venality, the study examines his early formation and career, the inspiration for his European policies, his relationship to Pio Nono, and the part he played in the Counter-Risorgimento and the Papal reaction. By improving our understanding of Papal, Italian, and European developments during these crucial decades, this study provides new insights into Romes fortress mentality and its rejection of the main currents that were transforming western life currents that influenced not only the Catholic Church but European society as a whole.
