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  • Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation

    by 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 ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    $51.89 USD

  • Moral Combat

    Women, Gender, and War in Italian Renaissance Literature

    by Gerry Milligan ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Dante Encyclopedia

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    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... ... Read more

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  • A Short History of the Italian Renaissance

    by Virginia Cox ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

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  • Venice Reconsidered

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

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • Armour and Masculinity in the Italian Renaissance

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • Giuliano de' Medici

    Machiavelli's Prince in Life and Art

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    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 ... Read more

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  • Machiavelli’s Prince

    Traditions, Text and Translations

    by Nicola Gardini, Martin McLaughlin ...
    One of the high-points of Italian Renaissance humanism, Machiavelli’s The Prince immediately transcended the time and culture from which it had sprung, circulating throughout Europe and paving the road to an astonishing variety of discussions on power and liberty for centuries to come. Indeed, one could hardly think of a literary work whose reception has been more controversial and arguably more ... Read more

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

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature

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

    by Martin Eisner ...
    Series Book 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 ... Read more

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  • The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance

    Language, Philosophy, and the Search for Meaning

    by 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 ... Read more

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