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  • Shakespeare, Caravaggio, and the Indistinct Regard

    by Rocco Coronato ...
    Series series Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies
    This volume presents a contrastive study of the overlapping careers of Shakespeare and Caravaggio through the comparison of their strikingly similar conventional belief in symbol and the centrality of the subject, only to gradually open it up in an exaltation of multiplicity and the "indistinct regard" (Othello).Utilizing a methodological premise on the notions of early modern indistinction and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Dante

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Peter Hainsworth, David Robey ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey take a different approach to Dante, by examining the main themes and issues that run through all of his work, ranging from autobiography, to understanding God and the order of the universe. In doing so, they highlight what has made Dante a vital point of reference for modern writers and readers, both inside and outside Italy. They ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Essays on Giordano Bruno

    by Hilary Gatti ...
    This book gathers wide-ranging essays on the Italian Renaissance philosopher and cosmologist Giordano Bruno by one of the world's leading authorities on his work and life. Many of these essays were originally written in Italian and appear here in English for the first time. Bruno (1548-1600) is principally famous as a proponent of heliocentrism, the infinity of the universe, and the plurality of ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Shakespeare: I am Italian. He reveals himself in coded messages

    by Vito Costantini ...
    The year 2016 is the four hundredth anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, the greatest playwright and poet of the English language. In reality, it was an illiterate actor who died in 1616. He had pilfered not only the stage name, but also the works of two Italian immigrants, Michelangelo and Giovanni Florio, father and son, who emigrated to England because of the Inquisition. In the last ... Read more

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  • Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures

    by Leonard Barkan ...
    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 ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • The Renaissance Drama of Knowledge

    Giordano Bruno in England

    by Hilary Gatti ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy
    Giordano Bruno’s visit to Elizabethan England in the 1580s left its imprint on many fields of contemporary culture, ranging from the newly-developing science, the philosophy of knowledge and language, to the extraordinary flowering of Elizabethan poetry and drama.This book explores Bruno's influence on English figures as different as the ninth Earl of Northumberland, Thomas Harriot, Christopher ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature

    by Andrew Hui ...
    Series series Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics
    The Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as a distinct category of cultural discourse, one that inspired voluminous poetic production. For humanists, the ruin became the material sign that marked the rupture between themselves and classical antiquity. In the first full-length book to document this cultural phenomenon, Andrew Hui explains how the invention of the ruin propelled ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Theatre, Magic and Philosophy

    William Shakespeare, John Dee and the Italian Legacy

    by Gabriela Dragnea Horvath ...
    Series series Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies
    Analyzing Shakespeare's views on theatre and magic and John Dee's concerns with philosophy and magic in the light of the Italian version of philosophia perennis (mainly Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola and Giordano Bruno), this book offers a new perspective on the Italian-English cultural dialogue at the Renaissance and its contribution to intellectual history. In an interdisciplinary and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Boccaccio

    Edited by Guyda Armstrong, Rhiannon Daniels, Stephen J. Milner ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Incorporating the most recent research by scholars in Italy, the UK, Ireland and North America, this collection of essays foregrounds Boccaccio's significance as a pre-eminent scholar and mediator of the classical and vernacular traditions, whose innovative textual practices confirm him as a figure of equal standing to Petrarch and Dante. Situating Boccaccio and his works in their cultural ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Studies in the History of the Renaissance

    by Walter Pater ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake' In Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), a diffident Oxford don produced an audacious and incalculably influential defence of aestheticism. Through his highly idiosyncratic readings of some of the finest paintings, sculptures, and poems of the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Curiosity and Wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

    by R.J.W. Evans ...
    'Curiosity' and 'wonder' are topics of increasing interest and importance to Renaissance and Enlightenment historians. Conspicuous in a host of disciplines from history of science and technology to history of art, literature, and society, both have assumed a prominent place in studies of the Early Modern period. This volume brings together an international group of scholars to investigate the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Development of the Sonnet

    An Introduction

    by Michael R. G. Spiller ...
    In this indispensible introductory study of the sonnet, Michael R.G. Spiller takes the reader on an illuminating guided tour. He begins with the invention of the sonnet in thirteenth-century Italy and traces its progress through to the time of Milton, showing how the form has developed and acquired the capacity to express lyrically 'the nature of the desiring self'. In doing so he provides a ... Read more

    $57.99 USD