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Laura Battiferra and Her Literary Circle

Author : Laura Battiferra degli Ammannati
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780226039244

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Laura Battiferra and Her Literary Circle by Laura Battiferra degli Ammannati Pdf

Internationally known during her lifetime, Laura Battiferra (1523-89) was a gifted and prolific poet in Renaissance Florence. The author of nearly 400 sonnets remarkable for their subtlety, intricate narrative structure, and learned allusions, Battiferra, who was married to the prominent sculptor and architect Bartolomeo Ammannati, traversed an elite literary and artistic network, circulating her verse in a complex and intellectually fecund exchange with some of the most illustrious figures in Italian history. In this bilingual anthology, Victoria Kirkham gathers Battiferra's most essential writing, including newly discovered poems, which provide modern readers with a valuable social chronicle of sixteenth-century Italy and the courtly culture of the Counter-Reformation.

Publishing Women

Author : Diana Robin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226721569

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Publishing Women by Diana Robin Pdf

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The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe

Author : Amanda L. Capern
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000709599

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The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe by Amanda L. Capern Pdf

The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe is a comprehensive and ground-breaking survey of the lives of women in early-modern Europe between 1450 and 1750. Covering a period of dramatic political and cultural change, the book challenges the current contours and chronologies of European history by observing them through the lens of female experience. The collaborative research of this book covers four themes: the affective world; practical knowledge for life; politics and religion; arts, science and humanities. These themes are interwoven through the chapters, which encompass all areas of women’s lives: sexuality, emotions, health and wellbeing, educational attainment, litigation and the practical and leisured application of knowledge, skills and artistry from medicine to theology. The intellectual lives of women, through reading and writing, and their spirituality and engagement with the material world, are also explored. So too is the sheer energy of female work, including farming and manufacture, skilled craft and artwork, theatrical work and scientific enquiry. The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe revises the chronological and ideological parameters of early-modern European history by opening the reader’s eyes to an exciting age of female productivity, social engagement and political activism across European and transatlantic boundaries. It is essential reading for students and researchers of early-modern history, the history of women and gender studies.

Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies

Author : Gaetana Marrone,Paolo Puppa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2258 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135455293

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Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies by Gaetana Marrone,Paolo Puppa Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies is a two-volume reference book containing some 600 entries on all aspects of Italian literary culture. It includes analytical essays on authors and works, from the most important figures of Italian literature to little known authors and works that are influential to the field. The Encyclopedia is distinguished by substantial articles on critics, themes, genres, schools, historical surveys, and other topics related to the overall subject of Italian literary studies. The Encyclopedia also includes writers and subjects of contemporary interest, such as those relating to journalism, film, media, children's literature, food and vernacular literatures. Entries consist of an essay on the topic and a bibliographic portion listing works for further reading, and, in the case of entries on individuals, a brief biographical paragraph and list of works by the person. It will be useful to people without specialized knowledge of Italian literature as well as to scholars.

Forms of Faith in Sixteenth-Century Italy

Author : Matthew Treherne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351936163

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Forms of Faith in Sixteenth-Century Italy by Matthew Treherne Pdf

The sixteenth century was a period of tumultuous religious change in Italy as in Europe as a whole, a period when movements for both reform and counter-reform reflected and affected shifting religious sensibilities. Cinquecento culture was profoundly shaped by these religious currents, from the reform poetry of the 1530s and early 1540s, to the efforts of Tridentine theologians later in the century to renew Catholic orthodoxy across cultural life. This interdisciplinary volume offers a carefully balanced collection of essays by leading international scholars in the fields of Italian Renaissance literature, music, history and history of art, addressing the fertile question of the relationship between religious change and shifting cultural forms in sixteenth-century Italy. The contributors to this volume are throughout concerned to demonstrate how a full understanding of Cinquecento religious culture might be found as much in the details of the relationship between cultural and religious developments, as in any grand narrative of the period. The essays range from the art of Cosimo I's Florence, to the music of the Confraternities of Rome; from the private circulation of religious literature in manuscript form, to the public performances of musical laude in Florence and Tuscany; from the art of Titian and Tintoretto to the religious poetry of Vittoria Colonna and Torquato Tasso. The volume speaks of a Cinquecento in which religious culture was not always at ease with itself and the broader changes around it, but was nonetheless vibrant and plural. Taken together, this new and ground-breaking research makes a major contribution to the development of a more nuanced understanding of cultural responses to a crucial period of reform and counter-reform, both within Italy and beyond.

Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J

Author : Gaetana Marrone
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 2258 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Italian literature
ISBN : 9781579583903

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Selected Poetry and Prose

Author : Chiara Matraini
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226510866

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Selected Poetry and Prose by Chiara Matraini Pdf

Chiara Matraini (1515–1604?) was a member of the great flowering of poetic imitators and innovators in the Italian literary heritage begun by Petrarch, cultivated later by the lyric poet Pietro Bembo, and supplanted by the epic poet Torquato Tasso. Though without formal training, Matraini excelled in a number of literary genres popular at the time—poetry, religious meditation, discourse, and dialogue. In her midlife, she published a collection of erotic love poetry, but later in life her work shifted toward a search for spiritual salvation. Near the end of her life, she published a new poetry retrospective. Mostly available in only a handful of rare book collections, her writings are now adeptly translated here for an English-speaking audience and situated historically in an introduction by noted Matraini expert Giovanna Rabitti. Selected Poetry and Prose allows the poet to finally take her place as one of the seminal authors of the Renaissance, next to her contemporaries Vittoria Colonna and Laura Battiferra, also published in the Other Voice series.

Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance

Author : Anne R. Larsen,Diana Robin,Carole Levin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781851097777

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Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance by Anne R. Larsen,Diana Robin,Carole Levin Pdf

This work is a revealing combination of biographies and topical essays that describe the outstanding and often-overlooked contributions of women to the science, politics, and culture of the Renaissance. Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance: Italy, France, and England is the first first comprehensive reference devoted exclusively to the contributions of women to European culture in the period between 1350 and 1700. Focusing principally on early modern women in England, France, and Italy, it offers over 135 biographies of the extraordinary women of those times. Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance provides vivid portraits of well known women such as Catherine of Siena, Joan of Arc, Mary Queen of Scots, and Christine de Pizan. Also included are less familiar but equally important women like Elena Lucrezia Cornaro, the first woman in Europe to earn a doctorate; the renowned Renaissance painter Artemisia Gentileschi; and the acclaimed author of medical textbooks and midwife to a French queen, Louise Boursier. Based on the latest research and enhanced with thematic essays, this groundbreaking work casts our understanding of women's lives and roles in Renaissance history and culture in a provocative new light.

Vittoria Colonna and the Spiritual Poetics of the Italian Reformation

Author : Abigail Brundin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317001065

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Vittoria Colonna and the Spiritual Poetics of the Italian Reformation by Abigail Brundin Pdf

Vittoria Colonna was one of the best known and most highly celebrated female poets of the Italian Renaissance. Her work went through many editions during her lifetime, and she was widely considered by her contemporaries to be highly skilled in the art of constructing tightly controlled and beautifully modulated Petrarchan sonnets. In addition to her literary contacts, Colonna was also deeply involved with groups of reformers in Italy before the Council of Trent, an involvement which was to have a profound effect on her literary production. In this study, Abigail Brundin examines the manner in which Colonna's poetry came to fulfil, in a groundbreaking and unprecedented way, a reformed spiritual imperative, disseminating an evangelical message to a wide audience reading vernacular literature, and providing a model of spiritual verse which was to be adopted by later poets across the peninsula. She shows how, through careful management of an appropriate literary persona, Colonna's poetry was able to harness the power of print culture to extend its appeal to a much broader audience. In so doing this book manages to provide the vital link between the two central facets of Vittoria Colonna's production: her poetic evangelism, and her careful construction of a gendered identity within the literary culture of her age. The first full length study of Vittoria Colonna in English for a century, this book will be essential reading for scholars interested in issues of gender, literature, religious reform or the dynamics of cultural transmission in sixteenth-century Italy. It also provides an excellent background and contextualisation to anyone wishing to read Colonna's writings or to know more about her role as a mediator between the worlds of courtly Petrachism and religious reform.

Women and the Circulation of Texts in Renaissance Italy

Author : Brian Richardson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108477697

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Women and the Circulation of Texts in Renaissance Italy by Brian Richardson Pdf

The first comprehensive guide to women's promotion and use of textual culture, in manuscript and print, in Renaissance Italy.

Strong Voices, Weak History

Author : Pamela Joseph Benson,Victoria Kirkham
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0472068814

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Strong Voices, Weak History by Pamela Joseph Benson,Victoria Kirkham Pdf

From a March 2000 conference at the University of Pennsylvania, 16 essays explore such aspects as women's dialogue writing in 16th-century France, Maria Domitilla Galluzzi and the Rule of St. Clare of Assisi, courtly origins of new literary canons, the earliest anthology of English women's texts, and the reinvention of Anne Askew. One of the contri

Early Modern Women and Transnational Communities of Letters

Author : Julie D. Campbell,Anne R. Larsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351942379

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Early Modern Women and Transnational Communities of Letters by Julie D. Campbell,Anne R. Larsen Pdf

An important contribution to growing scholarship on women's participation in literary cultures, this essay collection concentrates on cross-national communities of letters to offer a comparative and international approach to early modern women's writing. The essays gathered here focus on multiple literatures from several countries, ranging from Italy and France to the Low Countries and England. Individual essays investigate women in diverse social classes and life stages, ranging from siblings and mothers to nuns to celebrated writers; the collection overall is invested in crossing geographic, linguistic, political, and religious borders and exploring familial, political, and religious communities. Taken together, these essays offer fresh ways of reading early modern women's writing that consider such issues as the changing cultural geographies of the early modern world, women's bilingualism and multilingualism, and women's sense of identity mediated by local, regional, national, and transnational affiliations and conflicts.

New Apelleses and New Apollos

Author : Diletta Gamberini
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783110743661

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New Apelleses and New Apollos by Diletta Gamberini Pdf

This book breaks new ground by illuminating the key role of verse-writing as a cultural strategy on the part of Italian Renaissance artists. It does so by undertaking a wide-ranging study of poems by painters, sculptors, architects, and goldsmiths who were active in Florence under Cosimo I and Francesco I de’ Medici – a milieu in which many practitioners of the visual arts appropriated the literary medium to address issues related to their primary professions. New Apelleses, and New Apollos intervenes in the burgeoning scholarly discourse on the intellectual life of artists in early modern Italy, revealing how poetry often provides fresh insights into art-theoretical debates, patronage questions, workshop cultures, issues of professional identity, and networks of personal relations.

Lectura Dantis, Purgatorio

Author : Allen Mandelbaum,Anthony Oldcorn,Charles Ross
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520940529

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Lectura Dantis, Purgatorio by Allen Mandelbaum,Anthony Oldcorn,Charles Ross Pdf

This new critical volume, the second to appear in the three-volume Lectura Dantis, contains expert, focused commentary on the Purgatorio by thirty-three international scholars, each of whom presents to the nonspecialist reader one of the cantos of the transitional middle cantica of Dante's unique Christian epic. The cast of characters is as colorful as before, although this time most of them are headed for salvation. The canto-by-canto commentary allows each contributor his or her individual voice and results in a deeper, richer awareness of Dante's timeless aspirations and achievements.

Exploring Jesuit Distinctiveness

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004313354

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Exploring Jesuit Distinctiveness by Anonim Pdf

The volume theme is the distinctiveness of Jesuits and their ministries that was discussed at the first International Symposium on Jesuit Studies held at Boston College’s Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies in June 2015. It explores the quidditas Jesuitica, or the specifically Jesuit way(s) of proceeding in which Jesuits and their colleagues operated from historical, geographical, social, and cultural perspectives. The collection poses a question whether there was an essential core of distinctive elements that characterized the way in which Jesuits lived their religious vocation and conducted their various works and how these ways of proceeding were lived out in the various epochs and cultures in which Jesuits worked over four and a half centuries; what changed and adapted itself to different times and situations, and what remained constant, transcending time and place, infusing the apostolic works and lives of Jesuits with the charism at the source of the Society of Jesus’s foundation and development. Thanks to generous support of the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College, this volume is available in Open Access.