Giovanni Battista Ciotti (1562-1627?)
Author : Dennis E. Rhodes
Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,38 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9788865121450
Author : Dennis E. Rhodes
Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,38 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9788865121450
Author : Ian Maclean
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 20,86 MB
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9004440089
In Episodes, Ian Maclean investigates the ways in which the book trade operated through book fairs, and interacted with academic institutions, journals and intellectual life in various European settings (Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and England) in the long seventeenth century.
Author : Shanti Graheli
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 11,21 MB
Release : 2019-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9004340394
Buying and Selling explores the business of books in and beyond Europe, investigating the practices adopted by traders and customers.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 33,41 MB
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9004371125
Migration is a problem of highest importance today, and likewise is its history. Italian migrants who had to leave the peninsula in the long sixteenth century because of their heterodox Protestant faith is a topic that has its deep roots in Italian Renaissance scholarship since Delio Cantimori: It became a part of a twentieth century form of Italian leyenda negra in liberal historiography. But its international dimension and Central Europe (not only Germany) as destination of that movement has often been neglected. Three different levels of connectivity are addressed: the materiality of communication (travel, printing, the diffusion of books and manuscripts); individual migrants and their biographies and networks; and the cultural transfers, discourses, and ideas migrating in one or in both directions.
Author : Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 12,4 MB
Release : 2018-08-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004373829
The present volume is a result of an international symposium on the encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Asia and the Americas, which was organized by Boston College’s Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College in June 2017. In Asia, Protestants encountered a mixed Jesuit legacy: in South Asia, they benefited from pioneering Jesuit ethnographers while contesting their conversions; in Japan, all Christian missionaries who returned after 1853 faced the equation of Japanese nationalism with anti-Jesuit persecution; and in China, Protestants scrambled to catch up to the cultural legacy bequeathed by the earlier Jesuit mission. In the Americas, Protestants presented Jesuits as enemies of liberal modernity, supporters of medieval absolutism yet master manipulators of modern self-fashioning and the printing press. The evidence suggests a far more complicated relationship of both Protestants and Jesuits as co-creators of the bright and dark sides of modernity, including the public sphere, public education, plantation slavery, and colonialism.
Author : Diego Pirillo
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 21,7 MB
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501715321
The establishment of permanent embassies in fifteenth-century Italy has traditionally been regarded as the moment of transition between medieval and modern diplomacy. In The Refugee-Diplomat, Diego Pirillo offers an alternative history of early modern diplomacy, centered not on states and their official representatives but around the figure of "the refugee-diplomat" and, more specifically, Italian religious dissidents who forged ties with English and northern European Protestants in the hope of inspiring an Italian Reformation. Pirillo reconsiders how diplomacy worked, not only within but also outside of formal state channels, through underground networks of individuals who were able to move across confessional and linguistic borders, often adapting their own identities to the changing political conditions they encountered. Through a trove of diplomatic and mercantile letters, inquisitorial records, literary texts, marginalia, and visual material, The Refugee-Diplomat recovers the agency of religious refugees in international affairs, revealing their profound impact on the emergence of early modern diplomatic culture and practice.
Author : Nick Wilding
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 18,61 MB
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 022616702X
Galileo’s Idol offers a vivid depiction of Galileo’s friend, student, and patron, Gianfrancesco Sagredo (1571–1620). Sagredo’s life, which has never before been studied in depth, brings to light the inextricable relationship between the production, distribution, and reception of political information and scientific knowledge. Nick Wilding uses as wide a variety of sources as possible—paintings, ornamental woodcuts, epistolary hoaxes, intercepted letters, murder case files, and others—to challenge the picture of early modern science as pious, serious, and ecumenical. Through his analysis of the figure of Sagredo, Wilding offers a fresh perspective on Galileo as well as new questions and techniques for the study of science. The result is a book that turns our attention from actors as individuals to shifting collective subjects, often operating under false identities; from a world made of sturdy print to one of frail instruments and mistranscribed manuscripts; from a complacent Europe to an emerging system of complex geopolitics and globalizing information systems; and from an epistemology based on the stolid problem of eternal truths to one generated through and in the service of playful, politically engaged, and cunning schemes.
Author : Simone Testa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 19,89 MB
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1137438428
Italian Academies have typically been studied individually or in the context of specific cities, leaving an important lacuna in the scholarship on Italian culture and early modernity. Cutting across various disciplines, this volume traces the relationships of these Academies and explains how they prefigured networks like the République des letters.
Author : Matteo Valleriani
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 46,65 MB
Release : 2022-05-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030866009
This open access volume focuses on the cultural background of the pivotal transformations of scientific knowledge in the early modern period. It investigates the rich edition history of Johannes de Sacrobosco’s Tractatus de sphaera, by far the most widely disseminated textbook on geocentric cosmology, from the unique standpoint of the many printers, publishers, and booksellers who steered this text from manuscript to print culture, and in doing so transformed it into an established platform of scientific learning. The corpus, constituted of 359 different editions featuring Sacrobosco’s treatise on cosmology and astronomy printed between 1472 and 1650, represents the scientific European shared knowledge concerned with the cosmological worldview of the early modern period until far after the publication of Copernicus’ De revolutionibus orbium coelestium in 1543. The contributions to this volume show how the academic book trade influenced the process of homogenization of scientific knowledge. They also describe the material infrastructure through which such knowledge was disseminated, and thus define the premises for the foundation of modern scientific communities.
Author : Margaret S. G. McLeod
Publisher :
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 50,27 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Reference
ISBN :