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Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Le Torres Naharro de Joseph E. Gillet
Author: Bartolomé de Torres Naharro
Author: Constantine Christopher StathatosPublisher: Edition Reichenberger
ISBN: 9783935004916
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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The Pastor-Bobo in the Spanish Theatre, Before the Time of Lope de Vega
Author: John BrothertonPublisher: Tamesis
ISBN: 9780729300117
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Joseph E. Gillet Memorial Volume
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Author: "Propalladia" and Other Works of Bartolome de Torres Naharro, Volume 4
Author: Joseph E. GilletPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512801925
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
In this fourth volume of Joseph E. Gillet's monumental study, Propalladia and Other Works of Bartolomé De Torres Naharro, all students of Renaissance drama will find a wealth of material on the origins of the modern European theater. Torres Naharro created the cloak-and-sword play almost a century before Lope de Vega. The commonplaces of romantic comedy appeared, for the first time on any stage, in his Comedia Ymenea published at Naples in 1517. Two of his works, the Soldadesca and the Tinellaria—evocations of the roistering life of the barracks and of a cardinal's scullery—are remarkable examples of dramatic realism avant Ia lettre. The influence of Torres Naharro and his work on the Spanish drama of the sixteenth century was all pervasive. In this volume, all the material gleaned by Dr. Gillet in extensive research is brought into clear focus to show Torres Naharro as a man of the Renaissance and a man of the theater. Of the greatest interest is the exposition of his intuition of the distinction between poetic and historic truth—commedias a fantasia and a noticia—long before the recovery of the true text of Aristotle's Poetics, and of the substratum of primitivism in many of his plays: ritual societies, the medicine man, the right to tribute, social discipline, name changing, loss of memory, sports, games, acrobatics, sorcery, riddles, genealogies, weddings, propitiation and death song, resuscitation, license and chastity, and so on. And this dramatic activity occurred early, antedating most of the Italian plays of the sixteenth century.
Antonio Malatesti, 'La Tina'
Author: Davide MessinaPublisher: MHRA
ISBN: 1781880522
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Florentine poet Antonio Malatesti (1610-1672) earned a brief but significant mention in the earliest history of Italian literature for his contributions to the renewal of the sonnet form in two genres, enigmatography and dithyrambic poetry. In more recent times, his name has cropped up most frequently because of a sequence of fifty bawdy sonnets entitled La Tina, equivoci rusticali, which Malatesti dedicated and presented to the young John Milton on the occasion of his visit to Florence in 1638. The dedication manuscript disappeared soon after Milton's death and remained practically unknown until 1757, when it was found on a bookstall in London and copied as a curiosity. Then it disappeared again, and some scholars even suggested that it had never existed. The present critical edition is based on the rediscovered autograph manuscript dedicated to Milton. The sonnets are furnished with linguistic footnotes and prefaced by a note on the author from a previously unknown copy by Giuseppe Baretti (1719-1789). A comprehensive introduction sheds light on the history of the manuscript, using new archival research, and it contributes to a wider understanding of Malatesti's minor but exemplary position in the history of seventeenth-century Italian literature.
Secret Science
Author: María M. PortuondoPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022605540X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The discovery of the New World raised many questions for early modern scientists: What did these lands contain? Where did they lie in relation to Europe? Who lived there, and what were their inhabitants like? Imperial expansion necessitated changes in the way scientific knowledge was gathered, and Spanish cosmographers in particular were charged with turning their observations of the New World into a body of knowledge that could be used for governing the largest empire the world had ever known. As María M. Portuondo here shows, this cosmographic knowledge had considerable strategic, defensive, and monetary value that royal scientists were charged with safeguarding from foreign and internal enemies. Cosmography was thus a secret science, but despite the limited dissemination of this body of knowledge, royal cosmographers applied alternative epistemologies and new methodologies that changed the discipline, and, in the process, how Europeans understood the natural world.
The Literary Mind of Medieval and Renaissance Spain
Author: Otis H. GreenPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813163161
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The twelve essays in this fiorilegio of the work of Otis H. Green afford a representative view of the thought and scholarship of one of the world's foremost Hispanists. In each of them is developed some important facet of the intellectual milieu of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, reflecting Otis Green's life-long and wide-ranging quest for evidence that would broaden our understanding of those complex periods and correct the misapprehensions which have gathered about them. Included are important sections of his great work, Spain and the Western Tradition and essays from journals now difficult to obtain or out of print. This book provides a valuable introduction to Spanish thought and to the work of a scholar who has done much to elucidate it.
Occult Arts and Doctrine in the Theatre of Juan Ruiz de Alarcón
Author: Augusta Espantoso FoleyPublisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600030380
Category : Occultism in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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