Author: Franco LeoniPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
L'oracolo
Author: Franco LeoniL'oracolo
Author: Franco Leoni
Author: Musical America
Author: Bulletin
Author: Société royale d'archéologie d'AlexandriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alexandria (Egypt)
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
The Devil's Tabernacle
Author: Anthony Ossa-RichardsonPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400846595
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
The Devil's Tabernacle is the first book to examine in depth the intellectual and cultural impact of the oracles of pagan antiquity on modern European thought. Anthony Ossa-Richardson shows how the study of the oracles influenced, and was influenced by, some of the most significant developments in early modernity, such as the Christian humanist recovery of ancient religion, confessional polemics, Deist and libertine challenges to religion, antiquarianism and early archaeology, Romantic historiography, and spiritualism. Ossa-Richardson examines the different views of the oracles since the Renaissance--that they were the work of the devil, or natural causes, or the fraud of priests, or finally an organic element of ancient Greek society. The range of discussion on the subject, as he demonstrates, is considerably more complex than has been realized before: hundreds of scholars, theologians, and critics commented on the oracles, drawing on a huge variety of intellectual contexts to frame their beliefs. In a central chapter, Ossa-Richardson interrogates the landmark dispute on the oracles between Bernard de Fontenelle and Jean-François Baltus, challenging Whiggish assumptions about the mechanics of debate on the cusp of the Enlightenment. With erudition and an eye for detail, he argues that, on both sides of the controversy, to speak of the ancient oracles in early modernity was to speak of one's own historical identity as a Christian.
Opera Magazine
Author: Dictionary Catalog of the Music Collection
Author: New York Public Library. Reference DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Musical Courier
Author: Travels and Translations
Author: Alison YarringtonPublisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9401210160
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
This volume explores the fascinating interactions and exchanges between British and Italian cultures from the early modern period to the present. It looks at how these exchanges were mediated through personal encounters, travel writings, and translations, involving a variety of protagonists: explorers, writers, poets, preachers, diplomats and tourists. In particular, this book examines the understanding of Italy as a destination and set of locations, each with their own distinctive geographical character, during a period which saw the creation of the modern Italian state. It also charts the shifts in travelling activity during this period, from early explorers and cartographers, via those taking part in the Grand Tour in the 18th and 19th centuries, to more modern poet-travellers and blogging tourists. Drawing upon literary studies, history, art history, cultural studies, translation studies, sociology and socio-linguistics, this volume takes a cross-disciplinary approach to its rich constellation of ‘cultural transactions’.