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Author : Catherine B. Avery
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 978 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1972-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0136120512
Descriptions of literary works and characters and biographical material on important artists of the three-hundred-year period
Author : Catherine B. Avery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1076 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Italy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006489707
Author : Joseph P. Byrne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 843 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216168508
Students of the Italian Renaissance who wish to go beyond the standard names and subjects will find in this text abundant information on the lives, customs, beliefs, and practices of those who lived during this exciting time period. The World of Renaissance Italy: A Daily Life Encyclopedia engages all of the Italian peninsula from the Black Death (1347–1352) to 1600. Unlike other encyclopedic works about the Renaissance era, this book deals exclusively with Italy, revealing the ways common Italian people lived and experienced the events and technological developments that marked the Renaissance era. The coverage specifically spotlights marginal or traditionally marginalized groups, including women, homosexuals, Jews, the elderly, and foreign communities in Italian cities. The entries in this two-volume set are organized into 10 sections of 25 alphabetically listed entries each. Among the broad sections are art, fashion, family and gender, food and drink, housing and community, politics, recreation and social customs, and war. The "See Also" sources for each article are listed by section for easy reference, a feature that students and researchers will greatly appreciate. The extensive collection of contemporary documents include selections from a diary, letters, a travel journal, a merchant's inventory, Inquisition testimony, a metallurgical handbook, and text by an artist that describes what the author feels constitutes great work. Each of the primary source documents accompanies a specific article and provides an added dimension and degree of insight to the material.
Author : Christopher Kleinhenz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1952 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351664424
First published in 2004, Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia provides an introduction to the many and diverse facets of Italian civilization from the late Roman empire to the end of the fourteenth century. It presents in two volumes articles on a wide range of topics including history, literature, art, music, urban development, commerce and economics, social and political institutions, religion and hagiography, philosophy and science. This illustrated, A-Z reference is a cross-disciplinary resource and will be of key interest not only to students and scholars of history but also to those studying a range of subjects, as well as the general reader.
Author : Moderata Fonte
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780226256795
The first original chivalric poem written by an Italian woman, Floridoro imbues a strong feminist ethos into a hypermasculine genre. Dotted with the usual characteristics—dark forests, illusory palaces, enchanted islands, seductive sorceresses—Floridoro is the story of the two greatest knights of a bygone age: the handsome Floridoro, who risks everything for love, and the beautiful Risamante, who helps women in distress while on a quest for her inheritance. Throughout, Moderata Fonte (1555–92) vehemently defends women’s capacity to rival male prowess in traditionally male-dominated spheres. And her open criticism of women’s lack of education is echoed in the plights of various female characters who must depend on unreliable men. First published in 1581, Floridoro remains a vivacious and inventive narrative by a singular poet.
Author : Peter Bondanella,Julia Conway Bondanella,Jody Robin Shiffman
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780304704644
Author : Lucy Morrison,Staci L. Stone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313072321
Frankenstein is one of the most popular classroom texts in high school and college, and Shelley's other works are attracting renewed attention. This reference is a comprehensive guide to her life and career. Included are hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries about her works, friends, relatives, residences, fictional characters, allusions, and more. Mary Shelley has only recently emerged from the shadows of her famous parents, Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, and that of her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley. Today, Frankenstein (1818, 1831) is one of the most popular classroom texts in high school and college, and Mary Shelley's other works are attracting renewed attention. These works reveal much about the Romantic literary period and Shelley's ongoing development as a writer. In addition to her novels, Shelley wrote short stories, poems, and dramas. These texts illustrate the difficulties of a shifting literary marketplace, while her travel writings illuminate her rich personal experiences and keen intellect. This reference is a comprehensive guide to her life and career. Included are hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries about her works, friends, relatives, residences, fictional characters, allusions, and more. Some entries briefly identify and contextualize their topics, while others offer more extensive discussions. Many entries cite sources of further information, and the volume closes with a bibliography. The work is fully cross-referenced and includes a detailed index and an appendix that discusses the sources of Shelley's quotations.
Author : Christopher Kleinhenz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 4735 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135948795
This Encyclopedia gathers together the most recent scholarship on Medieval Italy, while offering a sweeping view of all aspects of life in Italy during the Middle Ages. This two volume, illustrated, A-Z reference is a cross-disciplinary resource for information on literature, history, the arts, science, philosophy, and religion in Italy between A.D. 450 and 1375. For more information including the introduction, a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample pages, and more, visit the Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia website.
Author : Lawrence G. Duggan
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843838654
The history of the vexed relationship between clergy and warfare is traced through a careful examination of canon law.
Author : Roland Sarti
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816074747
Exploring more than 500 years of the country's history, Italy provides readers interested in modern Italy or European history with a greater understanding of Italy's past, from the Renaissance to the present. This guide presents the milestones in Italy's history in an interesting and readable way.
Author : Juan de Mariana
Publisher : Christian's Library Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781880595886
In this treatise we find an insightful analysis concerning how monetary debasement and inflation increase prices, which proceeds to illustrate how such increases do not affect everyone equally-in effect, causing a revolution in fortunes. In a parallel argument, Mariana explains how government, if given control of other forms of private property, would also debase the values of those forms and use them according to its own interests.
Author : Maria DePrano
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108416054
This book examines a Renaissance Florentine family's art patronage, even for women, inspired by literature, music, love, loss, and religion.
Author : Richard C.S. Trahair
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135947736
Utopian ventures are worth close attention, to help us understand why some succeed and others fail, for they offer hope for an improved life on earth. Utopias and Utopians is a comprehensive guide to utopian communities and their founders. Some works look at literary utopias or political utopias, etc., and others examine the utopias of only one country: this work examines utopias from antiquity to the present and surveys utopian efforts around the world. Of more than 600 alphabetically arranged entries roughly half are descriptions of utopian ventures; the other half are biographies of those who were involved. Entries are followed by a list of sources and a general bibliography concludes the volume.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401201957
The relationship between travel and translation might seem obvious at first, but to study it in earnest is to discover that it is at once intriguing and elusive. Of course, travelers translate in order to make sense of their new surroundings; sometimes they must translate in order to put food on the table. The relationship between these two human compulsions, however, goes much deeper than this. What gets translated, it seems, is not merely the written or the spoken word, but the very identity of the traveler. These seventeen essays—which treat not only such well-known figures as Martin Luther, Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Milton, but also such lesser known figures as Konrad Grünemberg, Leo Africanus, and Garcilaso de la Vega—constitute the first survey of how this relationship manifests itself in the early modern period. As such, it should be of interest both to scholars who are studying theories of translation and to those who are studying “hodoeporics”, or travel and the literature of travel.
Author : James J. Megivern
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : 9781616437923
A comprehensive history of the death penalty in the West that provides more material on capital punishment in Western Christian history than is available in any other work in English.
