Author: CARMELO. CORDAROPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
ANTON MARIA SALVINI
Author: CARMELO. CORDAROConvent Theatre in Early Modern Italy
Author: Elissa B. WeaverPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521550826
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This book is a study of convent theatre in Italy, an all-female tradition. Widespread in the early modern period, but virtually forgotten today, this activity produced a number of talented dramatists and works worthy of remembrance. Convent authors, actresses and audiences, especially in Tuscan houses, the plays written and produced, and what these reveal about the lives of convent women, are the focus of this book. Beginning with the earliest known performances of miracle and mystery plays (sacre rappresentazioni) in the late fifteenth century, the book follows the development in the convents at the turn of the sixteenth century of spiritual comedy and of a variety of dramatic forms in the seventeenth century. Convent theatre both reflected the high level of literacy among convent women and contributed to it, and it attested to the continuing close contact between the secular world and the convents - even in the Post Tridentine period.
Lettera inedita ... all'eminentissimo cardinal Quirini [on the importance of knowing the Greek language].
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Author: Angiol Maria RicciSonetti ... finqui inediti. [Edited by D. Moreni.] L.P.
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Author: Anton Maria SalviniTeocrito volgarizzato da Anton Maria Salvini, etc
Author: The Contest for Knowledge
Author: Maria Gaetana AgnesiPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226010562
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
At a time when women were generally excluded from scholarly discourse in the intellectual centers of Europe, four extraordinary female letterate proved their parity as they lectured in prominent scientific and literary academies and published in respected journals. During the Italian Enlightenment, Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Giuseppa Eleonora Barbapiccola, Diamante Medaglia Faini, and Aretafila Savini de' Rossi were afforded unprecedented deference in academic debates and epitomized the increasing ability of women to influence public discourse. The Contest for Knowledge reveals how these four women used the methods and themes of their male counterparts to add their voices to the vigorous and prolific debate over the education of women during the eighteenth century. In the texts gathered here, the women discuss the issues they themselves thought most urgent for the equality of women in Italian society specifically and in European culture more broadly. Their thoughts on this important subject reveal how crucial the eighteenth century was in the long history of debates about women in the academy.
Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment
Author: Rebecca MessbargerPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442624752
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment offers a comprehensive assessment of Benedict's engagement with Enlightenment art, science, spirituality, and culture.
The Amusing Instructor: Or, a Key to the Italian Classics. L'Instruttor Giocondo, Etc
Author: Antonio MONTUCCIM-S
Author: Filippo ArgelatiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek literature
Languages : it
Pages : 438
Book Description
Florence in the Forgotten Centuries, 1527–1800
Author: Eric CochranePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022611595X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
The city of Florence has long been admired as the home of the brilliant artistic and literary achievement of the early Renaissance. But most histories of Florence go no further than the first decades of the sixteenth century. They thus give the impression that Florentine culture suddenly died with the generation of Leonardo, Machiavelli, and Andrea del Sarto. Eric Cochrane shows that the Florentines maintained their creativity long after they had lost their position as the cultural leaders of Europe. When their political philosophy and historiography ran dry, they turned to the practical problems of civil administration. When their artists finally yielded to outside influence, they turned to music and the natural sciences. Even during the darkest days of the great economic depression of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, they succeeded in preserving—almost alone in Europe—the blessings of external peace and domestic tranquility.