Italy S Eighteenth Century

Author : Paula Findlen,Wendy Wassyng Roworth,Catherine M. Sama
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804759045

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Italy’s Eighteenth Century by Paula Findlen,Wendy Wassyng Roworth,Catherine M. Sama Pdf

In the age of the Grand Tour, foreigners flocked to Italy to gawk at its ruins and paintings, enjoy its salons and cafés, attend the opera, and revel in their own discovery of its past. But they also marveled at the people they saw, both male and female. In an era in which castrati were "rock stars," men served women as cicisbei, and dandified Englishmen became macaroni, Italy was perceived to be a place where men became women. The great publicity surrounding female poets, journalists, artists, anatomists, and scientists, and the visible roles for such women in salons, academies, and universities in many Italian cities also made visitors wonder whether women had become men. Such images, of course, were stereotypes, but they were nonetheless grounded in a reality that was unique to the Italian peninsula. This volume illuminates the social and cultural landscape of eighteenth-century Italy by exploring how questions of gender in music, art, literature, science, and medicine shaped perceptions of Italy in the age of the Grand Tour.

Author : Tate Gallery,Palazzo delle esposizioni (Rome, Italy)
Publisher : Tate Publishing(UK)
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015038526441

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Grand Tour by Tate Gallery,Palazzo delle esposizioni (Rome, Italy) Pdf

This catalogue looks at the Grand Tour, a vital aspect of European civilisation in the age of the Enlightenment, from the point of view of several countries and includes the work of foremost artists of the period.

Author : Vernon Lee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Arts
ISBN : UIUC:30112070269367

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Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy by Vernon Lee Pdf

Author : Violet Paget
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:185268338

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Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy by Violet Paget Pdf

Author : Vernon Lee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1331922674

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Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy (Classic Reprint) by Vernon Lee Pdf

Excerpt from Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy This book is at first sight heterogeneous and anomalous: heterogeneous, because it treats two subjects which are rarely treated by one individual, and never treated under one binding, literature and music; anomalous, because it is far from dealing with all that goes to make up the Italian Eighteenth Century, while it deals with not a few men and things belonging to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Why not deal exclusively and completely with either music or literature? Why not study the satirist Parini by the side of the playwright Goldoni, rather than study the composer Jommelli, who seems to have no connection with him? Why examine the comedies of the time of Salvator Rosa and pass over the tragedies of Alfieri? Why linger over forgotten composers and singers while scientific and philosophic writers, whose works are still read and discussed, remain unmentioned? The book is seemingly most incoherent in subject, and most incomplete and digressive in treatment. But the apparent incoherence of subject is in reality unity of treatment; and the apparent incompleteness and irrelevance of treatment is in reality completeness and restriction of the subject. The book deals both with literature and with music, because the point of view of the writer is neither exclusively literary nor exclusively musical, but generally aesthetic; because the object of the writer has been to study not the special nature and history of any art in its isolation, but to study the constitution and evolution of the various arts compared with one another; and the arts whose constitution and evolution can be studied in a work on the Italian Eighteenth Century happen to be the drama and music, just as the arts which might be studied in a work on the Athenian fifth century B.C. would be the drama and sculpture. The writer of this book is neither a literary historian nor a musical critic, but an aesthetician; and both literature and music belong to the aesthetician's domain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Author : Martha Feldman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226044545

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Opera and Sovereignty by Martha Feldman Pdf

Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century’s most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart. Opera and Sovereignty is the first book to address this genre as cultural history, arguing that eighteenth-century opera seria must be understood in light of the period’s social and political upheavals. Taking an anthropological approach to European music that’s as bold as it is unusual, Martha Feldman traces Italian opera’s shift from a mythical assertion of sovereignty, with its festive forms and rituals, to a dramatic vehicle that increasingly questioned absolute ideals. She situates these transformations against the backdrop of eighteenth-century Italian culture to show how opera seria both reflected and affected the struggles of rulers to maintain sovereignty in the face of a growing public sphere. In so doing, Feldman explains why the form had such great international success and how audience experiences of the period differed from ours today. Ambitiously interdisciplinary, Opera and Sovereignty will appeal not only to scholars of music and anthropology, but also to those interested in theater, dance, and the history of the Enlightenment.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1401775641

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Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Italian Institute (London, England),Harold Acton
Publisher : Ed. di Storia e Letteratura
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Art and Ideas in Eighteenth-Century Italy. Lectures given at the Italian Institute 1957-1958 by Italian Institute (London, England),Harold Acton Pdf

Author : Tatiana Korneeva
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Italian drama
ISBN : 2503584950

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Mapping Artistic Networks by Tatiana Korneeva Pdf

"The essays in this collection are selected and revised versions of papers first presented at the conference 'Mapping Artistic Networks of Italian Theatre and Opera Across Europe, 1600-1800' held at the Freie Universität Berlin in 11-12 April 2019"--Page 21

Author : Patrizia Delpiano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351393393

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Church and Censorship in Eighteenth-Century Italy by Patrizia Delpiano Pdf

Dealing with the issue of ecclesiastical censorship and control over reading and readers, this study challenges the traditional view that during the eighteenth century the Catholic Church in Italy underwent an inexorable decline. It reconstructs the strategies used by the ecclesiastical leadership to regulate the press and culture during a century characterized by important changes, from the spread of the Enlightenment to the creation of a state censorship apparatus. Based on the archival records of the Roman Inquisition and the Congregation of the Index of Forbidden Books preserved in the Vatican, it provides a comprehensive analysis of the Catholic Church’s endeavour to keep literature and reading in check by means of censorship and the promotion of a "good" press. The crisis of the Inquisition system did not imply a general diminution of the Church’s involvement in controlling the press. Rather than being effective instruments of repression, the Inquisition and the Index combined to create an ideological apparatus to resist new ideas and to direct public opinion. This was a network mainly inspired by Counter-Enlightenment principles which would go on to influence the Church’s action well beyond the eighteenth century. This book is an English translation of Il governo della lettura: Chiesa e libri nell’Italia del Settecento (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2007).

Author : Girolamo Imbruglia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521631662

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Naples in the Eighteenth Century by Girolamo Imbruglia Pdf

In 1734 the kingdom of Naples became an independent monarchy, but in 1799 a Jacobin revolution transformed it briefly into a republic. In these few but intense decades of independence all the great problems of the age of the Enlightenment became apparent: attacks on feudalism and on the power of the Catholic Church, the struggle for a modern economy, and aspirations to change the administrative machinery and the judicial system. Yet Naples was also the city visited by Winckelmann and Goethe, the city of Sir William Hamilton, of the study of Pompeii and Herculanum, and of the greatest musicians of the age. This collection of essays addresses a range of issues in the city's political and cultural history, and demonstrates the city's importance in shaping the modern, enlightened culture of Europe.

Author : Mirella Agorni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317640639

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Translating Italy for the Eighteenth Century by Mirella Agorni Pdf

Translating Italy in the Eighteenth Century offers a historical analysis of the role played by translation in that complex redefinition of women's writing that was taking place in Britain in the second half of the eighteenth century. It investigates the ways in which women writers managed to appropriate images of Italy and adapt them to their own purposes in a period which covers the 'moral turn' in women's writing in the 1740s and foreshadows the Romantic interest in Italy at the end of the century. A brief survey of translations produced by women in the period 1730-1799 provides an overview of the genres favoured by women translators, such as the moral novel, sentimental play and a type of conduct literature of a distinctively 'proto-feminist' character. Elizabeth Carter's translation of Francesco Algarotti's II Newtonianesimo per le Dame (1739) is one of the best examples of the latter kind of texts. A close reading of the English translation indicates a 'proto-feminist' exploitation of the myth of Italian women's cultural prestige. Another genre increasingly accessible to women, namely travel writing, confirms this female interest in Italy. Female travellers who visited Italy in the second half of the century, such as Hester Piozzi, observed the state of women's education through the lenses provided by Carter. Piozzi's image of Italy, a paradoxical mixture of imagination and realistic observation, became a powerful symbolic source, which enabled the fictional image of a modern, relatively egalitarian British society to take shape.

Author : Luca Clerici
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030420642

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Italian Victualling Systems in the Early Modern Age, 16th to 18th Century by Luca Clerici Pdf

This book illustrates the complexity and variety of victualling systems in early modern Italy. For a long time, the historiography of urban provisioning systems in late medieval and early modern times featured a conceptual opposition between victualling administration and the market. In this book, on the contrary, the term ‘victualling system’ (sistema annonario) is employed according to its historical meaning, designating an organised set of public and private channels, evolved typically in urban contexts, for the procurement and distribution of the goods essential for the daily life of common people. According to this definition, specifically, a victualling system included also the market, as one of the different channels for the procurement and distribution of goods. What characterises the Italian case in the European context are both the earliness of these institutions and the long-lasting political and economic fragmentation of the peninsula: these factors determined the great variety and complexity of the solutions adopted. In order to show these features, the analysis focuses on four central issues: the configuration of systems, institutional pragmatism and variety, articulation of circuits, and plurality of actors. The seven relevant case-studies included in this book, all based on direct archival research, cover a wide range of geographical contexts and institutional arrangements, from the North to the South of the peninsula, and include both large-sized cities (Milan and Rome), medium-sized cities (Bergamo, Vicenza, and Ferrara), and entire regions (the March of Ancona, and Sicily). This allows the reader to appreciate regional and local differences in detail, making this book of interest for academics and scholars in economic, social, and urban history.

Author : Violet 1856-1935 Paget
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1372075887

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STUDIES OF THE 18TH CENTURY IN by Violet 1856-1935 Paget Pdf

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Author : Reinhard Strohm
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025819967

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The Eighteenth-century Diaspora of Italian Music and Musicians by Reinhard Strohm Pdf

On an eighteenth-century map of European culture, Italian musicians would be found almost everywhere. Unlike in earlier ages, they now provided an intrinsic part of the international exchange: no longer exotic birds, but not yet the representatives of a single nation, they helped other Europeans to forget traditional frontiers in music. In this fascinating book, eight specialised music historians investigate several important aspects of the Italian contribution, highlighting local musical practices, the aesthetic of genres, and the larger patterns of musical cultivation and patronage.