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The Emblematics of the Self
Ekphrasis and Identity in Renaissance Imitations of Ancient Greek Romance
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2012
The ancient Greek romances of Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus were widely imitated by early modern writers such as Miguel de Cervantes, Philip Sidney, and Mary Wroth. Like their Greek models, Renaissance romances used ekphrasis, or verbal descriptions of visual representation, as a tool for characterization....
Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 36
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international...
Evil Lords
Theories and Representations of Tyranny from Antiquity to the Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
Evil Lords uses the prism of bad rule or tyranny to enhance our understanding of political discourse from the ancient world to the Renaissance, elucidating premodern notions of sovereignty as well as the relation between ethics and politics, the individual and society, power, and propaganda. Eleven...
by Geoffrey Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
This book deals with three phases of the history of the West (now including the U S) known as the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Enlightenment. The rebirth commenced largely in Florence. It was followed by what was traditionally called the High Renaissance centred in Rome. The spiritual Reformation...
Early Renaissance Siena
From Milanese Egemony to Pope Pious II
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2015
In Siena, which is commonly described as a Gothic city, the Renaissance has usually been considered a marginal period when compared with the Florentine splendor. Specifically, in Siena the first half of the fifteenth century has long been considered a time of both absolute decadence and crisis in...
La Civilisation de la Renaissance en Italie de Jacob Burckhardt
Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis
Ouvrage déconcertant et cependant texte fondateur, le monumental « essai » de Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897), fils de pasteur, ayant fait ses études de théologie, puis d’histoire et d’histoire de l’art à Bâle et à...
Sounding Objects
Musical Instruments, Poetry, and Art in Renaissance France
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2007
Often abstracted by the aesthetic implications of music itself, musical instruments can be seen as physical signifiers apart from the music that they produce. In Sounding Objects, Carla Zecher studies the representation of musical instruments in French Renaissance poetry and art, arguing that the...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Spurred by an increasingly international and competitive market, the Renaissance saw the development of many new fabrics and the use of highly prized ingredients imported from the New World. In response to a thirst for the new, fashion's pace of change accelerated, the production of garments provided...
by Encyclopaedia Universalis, Les Grands Articles
Language: French
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: October 28, 2015
André Chastel faisait remarquer un jour que la Renaissance était la seule période de l'histoire qui se fût donné un nom dès les premières manifestations de son essence (les humanistes italiens du Quattrocento parlaient déjà de Rinascità), et Alphonse Dupront commençait un célèbre article intitulé « Espace et humanisme » en identifiant la...
Dictionnaire de la Renaissance
Les Dictionnaires d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Composé de textes empruntés à l’Encyclopaedia Universalis, ce Dictionnaire de la Renaissance réunit près de six cents articles qui dessinent l’arrière-plan intellectuel de ce grand moment de l’histoire européenne (philosophie, religion, sciences) et analysent les différents aspects du...
Die Renaissance in Italien
Geschichte und Kultur
Language: German
Release Date: June 12, 2019
Die Zeit zwischen 1430 und 1560 gilt als die glänzendste Epoche der italienischen Geschichte, die als kulturelle und zivilisatorische „Wiedergeburt“ – als Renaissance – gefeiert wurde. Volker Reinhardt beschreibt souverän und anschaulich, in welchem politischen und gesellschaftlichen Rahmen...
Die Strozzi
Eine Familie im Florenz der Renaissance
Language: German
Release Date: May 17, 2011
«Man kann mit gutem Recht sagen, daß wegen des unauslöschlichen Hasses, den die Medici gegen unsere Familie hegten, weil wir Förderer und Freunde der Freiheit sind, das Exil bei uns erblich ist, ja geradezu wie ein Familienvermögen an die Nachkommen weitergegeben wird.» Die Strozzi waren eine...
Becoming Leonardo
An Exploded View of the Life of Leonardo da Vinci
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
"I found Mr. Lankford’s writing thought-provoking and Mr. Isaacson’s thought-stifling.Mr.Lankford proposes a great many insights...With immediacy and grace, Becoming Leonardo starts on a high note and gets better to the very end."—WALL STREET JOURNAL
A Wall Street Journal 2017...
by Sarah Bradford
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
THE FULL STORY BEHIND THE BORGIAS, NOW A MAJOR TV DRAMA STARRING JEREMY IRONS
'Either Caesar or nothing' was the motto of Cesare Borgia, whose name has long been synonymous with evil. Almost five centuries have passed since his death, yet his reputation still casts a sinister shadow. He stands...