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The Science of Naples by Lorenza Gianfrancesco,Neil Tarrant Pdf
Long neglected in the history of Renaissance and early modern Europe, in recent years scholars have revised received understanding of the political and economic significance of the city of Naples and its rich artistic, musical and political culture. Its importance in the history of science, however, has remained relatively unknown. The Science of Naples provides the first dedicated study of Neapolitan scientific culture in the English language. Drawing on contributions from leading experts in the field, this volume presents a series of studies that demonstrate Neapolitans’ manifold contributions to European scientific culture in the early modern period and considers the importance of the city, its institutions and surrounding territories for the production of new knowledge. Individual chapters demonstrate the extent to which Neapolitan scholars and academies contributed to debates within the Republic of Letters that continued until deep into the nineteenth century. They also show how studies of Neapolitan natural disasters yielded unique insights that contributed to the development of fields such as medicine and earth sciences. Taken together, these studies resituate the city of Naples as an integral part of an increasingly globalised scientific culture, and present a rich and engaging portrait of the individuals who lived, worked and made scientific knowledge there.
2011 Winner of the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize of the Renaissance Society of America Naples in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries managed to maintain a distinct social character while under Spanish rule. John A. Marino's study explores how the population of the city of Naples constructed their identity in the face of Spanish domination. As Western Europe’s largest city, early modern Naples was a world unto itself. Its politics were decentralized and its neighborhoods diverse. Clergy, nobles, and commoners struggled to assert political and cultural power. Looking at these three groups, Marino unravels their complex interplay to show how such civic rituals as parades and festival days fostered a unified Neapolitan identity through the assimilation of Aragonese customs, Burgundian models, and Spanish governance. He discusses why the relationship between mythical and religious representations in ritual practices allowed Naples's inhabitants to identify themselves as citizens of an illustrious and powerful sovereignty and explains how this semblance of stability and harmony hid the city's political, cultural, and social fissures. In the process, Marino finds that being and becoming Neapolitan meant manipulating the city's rituals until their original content and meaning were lost. The consequent widening of divisions between rich and poor led Naples's vying castes to turn on one another as the Spanish monarchy weakened. Rich in source material and tightly integrated, this nuanced, synthetic overview of the disciplining of ritual life in early modern Naples digs deep into the construction of Neapolitan identity. Scholars of early modern Italy and of Italian and European history in general will find much to ponder in Marino's keen insights and compelling arguments.
During the 1990s, Naples' left-wing administration sought to tackle the city's infamous reputation of being poor, crime-ridden, chaotic and dirty by reclaiming the city's cultural and architectural heritage. This book examines the conflicts surrounding the reimaging and reordering of the city's historic centre through detailed case studies of two piazzas and a centro sociale, focusing on a series of issues that include heritage, decorum, security, pedestrianization, tourism, immigration and new forms of urban protest. This monograph is the first in-depth study of the complex transformations of one of Europe's most fascinating and misunderstood cities. It represents a new critical approach to the questions of public space, citizenship and urban regeneration as well as a broader methodological critique of how we write about contemporary cities.
The Science of James Smithson by Steven Turner Pdf
Accessible exploration of the noteworthy scientific career of James Smithson, who left his fortune to establish the Smithsonian Institution. James Smithson is best known as the founder of the Smithsonian Institution, but few people know his full and fascinating story. He was a widely respected chemist and mineralogist and a member of the Royal Society, but in 1865, his letters, collection of 10,000 minerals, and more than 200 unpublished papers were lost to a fire in the Smithsonian Castle. His scientific legacy was further written off as insignificant in an 1879 essay published through the Smithsonian fifty years after his death--a claim that author Steven Turner demonstrates is far from the truth. By providing scientific and intellectual context to his work, The Science of James Smithson is a comprehensive tribute to Smithson's contributions to his fields, including chemistry, mineralogy, and more. This detailed narrative illuminates Smithson and his quest for knowledge at a time when chemists still debated thing as basic as the nature of fire, and struggled to maintain their networks amid the ever-changing conditions of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars.
Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76 Under the Command of Captain George S. Nares and the Late Captain Frank Tourle Thomson by Great Britain. Challenger Office Pdf
Author : Christina K. Lindeman Publisher : Taylor & Francis Page : 231 pages File Size : 46,5 Mb Release : 2017-04-21 Category : Art ISBN : 9781351768061
Representing Duchess Anna Amalia's Bildung by Christina K. Lindeman Pdf
The cultural milieu in the “Age of Goethe” of eighteenth-century Germany is given fresh context in this art historical study of the noted writers’ patroness: Anna Amalia, Duchess of Weimar-Sachsen-Eisenach. An important noblewoman and patron of the arts, Anna Amalia transformed her court into one of the most intellectually and culturally brilliant in Europe; this book reveals the full scope of her impact on the history of art of this time and place. More than just biography or a patronage study, this book closely examines the art produced by German-speaking artists and the figure of Anna Amalia herself. Her portraits demonstrate the importance of social networks that enabled her to construct scholarly, intellectual identities not only for herself, but for the region she represented. By investigating ways in which the duchess navigated within male-dominated institutions as a means of advancing her own self-cultivation – or Bildung – this book demonstrates the role accorded to women in the public sphere, cultural politics, and historical memory. Cumulatively, Christina K. Lindeman traces how Anna Amalia, a woman from a small German principality, was represented as an active participant in enlightened discourses. The author presents a novel and original argument concerned with how a powerful woman used art to shape her identity, how that identity changed over time, and how people around her shaped it – an approach that elucidates the power of portraiture in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe.
Author : Frank Fehrenbach,Joris van Gastel Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG Page : 285 pages File Size : 55,8 Mb Release : 2020-09-21 Category : Art ISBN : 9783110720488
Nature and the Arts in Early Modern Naples by Frank Fehrenbach,Joris van Gastel Pdf
The literary, artistic, and scientific culture of early modern Naples is closely linked to the natural topography of the city, stretching from Iacopo Sannazaro’s poetic evocation of the Campania landscape to Giambattista Vico’s approach in which he anchors human civilization to the existential confrontation with natural forces. With the open sea, the rocky coastline, and the menacing presence of Vesuvius, the image of Naples, more than any other city in early modern times, is associated in the collective imagination with the forces of nature. Even the populace was interpreted as a force of nature. In this volume, art, literature, and science historians investigate the convergence of culture and nature in a unique geographic context.
The contributions of the MUNA network to CUCS Naples 2022. Proceedings of MUNA sessions: CUCS_Coordinamento Universitario per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo, Naples 21st-23rd April 2022 by Gilberto Sammartino Pdf
[Italiano]: Il Consortium Muna (Mediterranean and Middle East University Network Agreement) è stato fondato nel 2015 e rinnovato nel 2021, quando 30 Università provenienti da tutti i Paesi dell'area mediterranea e alcune altre dal Medio Oriente hanno firmato l'Accordo Quadro. Come scritto nell'Accordo Quadro, anche in questo spazio Muna della Conferenza CUCS, proponiamo tre diversi temi principali: MARE NOSTRUM (il nostro Mare, il Mediterraneo), PERSONA (l'Uomo) e ORBIS (la Terra), per riassumere le proposte di Cooperazione tra le Università di Muna Network. La prima sessione è dedicata al campo di ORBIS per condividere la sostenibilità, attraverso la biodiversità come elemento chiave per lo sviluppo del suolo in diversi aspetti come la gestione sostenibile dell'agricoltura, della fauna e della flora, con impatto nel campo della veterinaria. Tuttavia, un focus è anche legato all'inclusione e all'integrazione nelle città sostenibili in questo periodo di pandemia e flussi migratori rispetto al problema dei cambiamenti climatici nell'area mediterranea. La seconda sessione è incentrata su PERSONA, per condividere le esperienze nell'immunodeficienza primaria innata con i contributi di diverse Università di diverse aree del Mediterraneo, esaminando approcci di prevenzione e cura, anche attraverso la proposta di uno studio comparativo. Vengono discusse le differenze culturali in questo periodo di pandemia e la situazione dei diritti umani nel bacino mediterraneo. L'ultimo punto è MARE NOSTRUM, incentrato sullo sfruttamento delle risorse mediterranee proposto dalle Cooperazione Internazionale tra Muna Partners. Oltre allo sfruttamento, vengono ulteriormente sviluppati i temi del miglioramento della qualità dell'acqua, della salvaguardia del settore ittico e dell'obbligatoria migliore organizzazione delle aree portuali. In conclusione, una tavola rotonda discute le opportunità della Cooperazione, soprattutto per capire quali proposte possono essere seguite nella Cooperazione Universitaria e magari per definire progetti futuri./[English]: The Muna Consortium (Mediterranean and Middle East University Network Agreement) was founded in 2015 and renewed in 2021, when 30 Uni¬versities coming from all Countries of Mediterranean area and some others from Middle East signed the Fra¬mework Agreement. As written in the Framework Agreement, also in this Muna space in the CUCS Conference, we propo¬se three different main themes: MARE NOSTRUM (our Sea, the Mediterranean), PERSONA (Man) and ORBIS (the Earth), to summarize the proposals of Co¬operation between Muna Network Universities. The first session is dedicated to the field of ORBIS to share the sustainability, through the biodiversity as a key ele¬ment for the development of soil in different aspects as agricolture, fauna and flora sustainable management, with impact in the field of veterinary. Neverthless, a focus is also related to the inclusion and integration in the sustainable cities during this time of pandemia and migration flows with regard to the problem of clima changes in the Mediterranean area. The second session is focused on PERSONA, to share the experiences in the primary immunodefi¬ciency inborn with the contributions of different Uni¬versities of different mediterranean area, examinating approaches of prevention and treatment, also thorough the proposal of a comparative study. Culture differencies in this pandemia period and the situation of human rights in the medi¬terranean basin are discussed. The last item is MARE NOSTRUM, foused on exploitation of the Mediterannean resources proposed by International Cooperations among Muna Partners. Besides the exploitation, the the¬mes of improving the quality of water, the safe¬guarding of ittic sector and the mandatory better organization of port areas are further developed. In conclusion, a round table discusses the oppor¬tunities of the Cooperation, especially to understand which proposals can be followed in the Universities Cooperation and maybe to establish future projects.
Naples was one of the largest cities in early modern Europe, and for about two centuries the largest city in the global empire ruled by the kings of Spain. Its crowded and noisy streets, the height of its buildings, the number and wealth of its churches and palaces, the celebrated natural beauty of its location, the many antiquities scattered in its environs, the fiery volcano looming over it, the drama of its people’s devotions, the size and liveliness - to put it mildly - of its plebs, all made Naples renowned and at times notorious across Europe. The new essays in this volume aim to introduce this important, fascinating, and bewildering city to readers unfamiliar with its history. Contributors are: Tommaso Astarita, John Marino, Giovanni Muto, Vladimiro Valerio, Gaetano Sabatini, Aurelio Musi, Giulio Sodano, Carlos José Hernando Sánchez, Elisa Novi Chavarria, Gabriel Guarino, Giovanni Romeo, Peter Mazur, Angelantonio Spagnoletti, J. Nicholas Napoli, Gaetana Cantone, Anthony DelDonna, Sean Cocco, Melissa Calaresu, Nancy Canepa, David Gentilcore, Diana Carrió-Invernizzi, and Anna Maria Rao. The publisher, editor, and contributors mourn the passing of Gaetana Cantone, who died in April 2013.
