Innovation In The Italian Counter Reformation

Author : Shannon McHugh,Anna Wainwright
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644531891

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Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation by Shannon McHugh,Anna Wainwright Pdf

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 essays of Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation present a radical reconsideration of literary production in post-Tridentine Italy. With particular attention to the much-maligned tradition of spiritual literature, the volume’s contributors weave literary analysis together with religion, theater, art, music, science, and gender to demonstrate that the literature of this period not only merits study but is positively innovative. Contributors include such renowned critics as Virginia Cox and Amadeo Quondam, two of the leading scholars on the Italian Counter-Reformation. Distributed for UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE PRESS

Author : Serena Laiena
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781644533178

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The Theatre Couple in Early Modern Italy by Serena Laiena Pdf

Who were the first celebrity couples? How was their success forged? Which forces influenced their self-fashioning and marketing strategies? These questions are at the core of this study, which looks at the birth of a phenomenon, that of the couple in show business, with a focus on the promotional strategies devised by two professional performers: Giovan Battista Andreini (1576–1654) and Virginia Ramponi (1583–ca.1631). This book examines their artistic path – a deliberately crafted and mutually beneficial joint career – and links it to the historical, social, and cultural context of post-Tridentine Italy. Rooted in a broad research field, encompassing theatre history, Italian studies, celebrity studies, gender studies, and performance studies, The Theatre Couple in Early Modern Italy revises the conventional view of the Italian diva, investigates the deployment of Catholic devotion as a marketing tool, and argues for the importance of the couple system in the history of Commedia dell’Arte, a system that continues to shape celebrity today.

Author : Virginia Cox,Lisa Sampson
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781800084308

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Drama, Poetry and Music in Late-Renaissance Italy by Virginia Cox,Lisa Sampson Pdf

Leonora Bernardi (1559-1616), a gentlewoman of Lucca, was a highly regarded poet, dramatist and singer. She was active in the brilliant courts of Ferrara and Florence at a time when creative women enjoyed exceptional visibility in Italy. Like many such figures, she has since suffered historical neglect. Drama, Poetry and Music in Late-Renaissance Italy presents the first ever study of Bernardi’s life, and modern edition of her recently discovered literary corpus, which mostly exists in manuscript. Her writings appear in the original Italian with new English translations, scholarly notes, critical essays and contributions by Eric Nicholson, Eugenio Refini and Davide Daolmi. Based on new archival research, the substantial opening section reconstructs Bernardi’s unusually colourful life. Bernardi’s works reveal her connections with some of the most pioneering poets, dramatists and musicians of the day, including her mentor Angelo Grillo and the first opera librettist Ottavio Rinuccini. The second major section presents her pastoral tragicomedy Clorilli, one of the earliest secular dramatic works by a woman. It was apparently performed in the early 1590s at a Medici villa near Florence, before Grandduke Ferdinando I de’ Medici, and his consort Christine of Lorraine, but now exists in an enigmatic Venetian manuscript. The third section presents Bernardi’s secular and religious verse, which engaged with new trends in lyric and poetry for music, and was set by various key composers across Italy.

Author : Unn Falkeid,Anna Wainwright
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004540040

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The Legacy of Birgitta of Sweden by Unn Falkeid,Anna Wainwright Pdf

Saint Birgitta of Sweden (d. 1373), one of the most famous visionary women of the late Middle Ages, lived in Rome for the last 23 years of her life. Much of her extensive literary work was penned there. Her Celestial Revelations circulated widely from the late 14th century to the 17th century, copied in Italian scriptoria, translated into vernacular, and printed in several Latin and Italian editions. In the same centuries, an extraordinary number of women writers across the peninsula were publishing their work. What echoes might we find of the foreign widow’s prophetic voice in their texts? This volume offers innovative investigations, written by an interdisciplinary group of experts, of the profound impact of Birgitta of Sweden in Renaissance Italy. Contributors include: Brian Richardson, Jane Tylus, Isabella Gagliardi, Clara Stella, Marco Faini, Jessica Goethals, Anna Wainwright, Eleonora Cappuccilli, Eleonora Carinci, Virginia Cox, Unn Falkeid, and Silvia Nocentini.

Author : George J. Buelow
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 0253343658

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A History of Baroque Music by George J. Buelow Pdf

"A History of Baroque Music is a detailed treatment of the music of the Baroque era, with particular focus on the seventeenth century. The author's approach is a history of musical style with an emphasis on musical scores. The book is divided initially by time period into early and later Baroque (1600-1700 and 1700-1750 respectively), and secondarily by country and composer. An introductory chapter discusses stylistic continuity with the late Renaissance and examines the etymology of the term "Baroque." The concluding chapter on the composer Telemann addresses the stylistic shift that led to the end of the Baroque and the transition into the Classical period."--Jacket.

Author : Mary Lindemann,Deanna Shemek
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781644533383

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Redreaming the Renaissance by Mary Lindemann,Deanna Shemek Pdf

Redreaming the Renaissance seeks to remedy the dearth of conversations between scholars of history and literary studies by building on the pathbreaking work of Guido Ruggiero to explore the cross-fertilization between these two disciplines, using the textual world of the Italian Renaissance as proving ground. In this volume, these disciplines blur, as they did for early moderns, who did not always distinguish between the historical and literary significance of the texts they read and produced. Literature here is broadly conceived to include not only belles lettres, but also other forms of artful writing that flourished in the period, including philosophical writings on dreams and prophecy; life-writing; religious debates; menu descriptions and other food writing; diaries, news reports, ballads, and protest songs; and scientific discussions. The twelve essays in this collection examine the role that the volume’s dedicatee has played in bringing the disciplines of history and literary studies into provocative conversation, as well as the methodology needed to sustain and enrich this conversation.

Author : Marc Föcking,Susanne A. Friede,Florian Mehltretter,Angela Oster
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783110783438

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A Companion to Anticlassicisms in the Cinquecento by Marc Föcking,Susanne A. Friede,Florian Mehltretter,Angela Oster Pdf

Author : Gerry Milligan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487503147

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Moral Combat by Gerry Milligan Pdf

Moral Combat explores dozens of primary texts to ask why women's militarism became one of the central discourses of sixteenth-century Italy.

Author : Emily E. Thompson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644532386

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Storytelling in Sixteenth-Century France by Emily E. Thompson Pdf

Storytelling in Sixteenth-Century France is an innovative, interdisciplinary examination of parallels between the early modern era and the world in which we live today. Readers are invited to look to the past to see how then, as now, people turned to storytelling to integrate and adapt to rapid social change, to reinforce or restructure community, to sell new ideas, and to refashion the past. This collection explores different modalities of storytelling in sixteenth-century France and emphasizes shared techniques and themes rather than attempting to define narrow kinds of narrative categories. Through studies of storytelling in tapestries, stone, and music as well as distinct genres of historical, professional, and literary writing (addressing both erudite and more common readers), the contributors to this collection evoke a society in transition, wherein traditional techniques and materials were manipulated to express new realities. Published by the University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Author : Su Fang Ng,Carmen Nocentelli
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644532423

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England's Asian Renaissance by Su Fang Ng,Carmen Nocentelli Pdf

England's Asian Renaissance explores how Asian knowledges, narratives, and customs inflected early modern English literature. Just as Asian imports changed England's tastes and enriched the English language, Eastern themes, characters, and motifs helped shape the country's culture and contributed to its national identity. Questioning long-standing dichotomies between East and West and embracing a capacious understanding of translatio as geographic movement, linquistic transformation, and cultural grafting, the collection gives pride of place to convergence, approximation, and hybridity, thus underscoring the radical mobility of early modern culture. In so doing, England's Asian Renaissance also moves away from entrenched narratives of Western cultural sovereignty to think anew England's debts to Asia. Published by the University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Author : Meredith K. Ray,Lynn Lara Westwater
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644533062

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Gendering the Renaissance by Meredith K. Ray,Lynn Lara Westwater Pdf

The essays in this volume revisit the Italian Renaissance to rethink spaces thought to be defined and certain: from the social spaces of convent, court, or home, to the literary spaces of established genres such as religious plays or epic poetry. Repopulating these spaces with the women who occupied them but have often been elided in the historical record, the essays also remind us to ask what might obscure our view of texts and archives, what has remained marginal in the texts and contexts of early modern Italy and why. The contributors, suggesting new ways of interrogating gendered discourses of genre, identities, and sanctity, offer a complex picture of gender in early modern Italian literature and culture. Read in dialogue with one another, their pieces provide a fascinating survey of currents in gender studies and early modern Italian studies and point to exciting future directions in these fields.

Author : Roni Weinstein
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004181205

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Juvenile Sexuality, Kabbalah, and Catholic Reformation in Italy by Roni Weinstein Pdf

This detailed introduction to the text Tiferet Bachurim (The Glory of Youth), written in the mid-seventeenth century in Ferrara, Italy, discusses the profound changes in Jewish Italian communities regarding sexuality, control of the juvenile body, and the role of Kabbalah in The Jewish Counter Reformation.

Author : Dermot Fenlon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521200059

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Heresy and Obedience in Tridentine Italy by Dermot Fenlon Pdf

Reginald Pole was one of the most complex figures in sixteenth-century history. The only Englishman to follow a career at the Roman Curia in the crucial decades of the Reformation, the victim successively of the Tudor Reformation and the Roman Inquisition, his life was marked by misunderstanding, failure and tragedy. This book is a study of his career in Italy, his involvement in the Council of Trent and his share in the vain attempt to obtain reunification with the Protestants. Dr Fenlon discusses in great detail Pole's attitudes towards the doctrine of the Protestant reformers, its influence within Italy and the development of his group of `spirituals' at Viterbo. But this is not simply a biography of Pole nor an analysis of his influence. Rather it is an examination of the crisis the Catholic Church and its adherents faced in the Reformation, the conflict exemplified in Pole's personal experience and that of the groups among which he moved, between obedience to the established ecclesiastical order and sympathy with Luther's tenets. The crisis and its resolution reflect the genesis of the Reformation and the Catholic Counter Reformation which resulted in the final confessional divisions of Christian Europe.

Author : Frederic Corss Church
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010385784

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The Italian Reformers, 1534-1564 by Frederic Corss Church Pdf

Looks at the Italian Reformation from 1534-1564 from the start of the Counter-Reformation, to the peace of Crespy, to the end of the Council of Trent.

Author : Stephen David Bowd
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004475724

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Reform before the Reformation: Vincenzo Querini and the Religious Renaissance in Italy by Stephen David Bowd Pdf

An important aspect of the Italian Renaissance was church reform. This book examines the nature of that reform - especially in Venice, Florence and Rome - as viewed through the unpublished manuscripts of a Venetian nobleman who became a Camaldolese hermit: Vincenzo Querini (1478-1514). This book sets Querini's personal journey to reform in the context of Venetian society, as well as against the backdrop of political crisis, cultural revival, and monastic renaissance in Italy generally. Querini's attempt to reform himself, the Roman Catholic Church, and the whole of Christendom are of interest to historians seeking to revise the chronology of early modern church reform since he employed a range of scriptural, humanist, conciliar, monastic, and mystical methods that had medieval antecedents but were also imitated by reformers after the Reformation.