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Book A book from the Gonzaga library at Mantua

Download or read book A book from the Gonzaga library at Mantua written by Dennis E. Rhodes and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Prince of Mantua the Life and Times of Vincenzo Gonzaga

Download or read book A Prince of Mantua the Life and Times of Vincenzo Gonzaga written by Maria Bellonci and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2015-08-09 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The University of Mantua  the Gonzaga  and the Jesuits  1584   1630

Download or read book The University of Mantua the Gonzaga and the Jesuits 1584 1630 written by Paul F. Grendler and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-06-22 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to extensive archival research and a thorough examination of the published works of the university's professors, Grendler's history tells a new story.

Book A Renaissance Tapestry

Download or read book A Renaissance Tapestry written by Kate Simon and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A microcosm of Renaissance Italy is presented through this family history of the Gonzaga of Mantau--one of the reigning families of the Renaissance.--Amazon.com.

Book Mantua Under Gianfrancesco Gonzaga  1407 1444

Download or read book Mantua Under Gianfrancesco Gonzaga 1407 1444 written by Roberto Allen Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The University of Mantua  the Gonzaga  and the Jesuits  1584   1630

Download or read book The University of Mantua the Gonzaga and the Jesuits 1584 1630 written by Paul F. Grendler and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-07-27 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universities were driving forces of change in late Renaissance Italy. The Gonzaga, the ruling family of Mantua, had long supported scholarship and dreamed of founding an institution of higher learning within the city. In the early seventeenth century they joined forces with the Jesuits, a powerful intellectual and religious force, to found one of the most innovative universities of the time. Paul F. Grendler provides the first book in any language about the Peaceful University of Mantua, its official name. He traces the efforts of Duke Ferdinando Gonzaga, a prince savant who debated Galileo, as he made his family’s dream a reality. Ferdinando negotiated with the Jesuits, recruited professors, and financed the school. Grendler examines the motivations of the Gonzaga and the Jesuits in the establishment of a joint civic and Jesuit university. The University of Mantua lasted only six years, lost during the brutal sack of the city by German troops in 1630. Despite its short life, the university offered original scholarship and teaching. It had the first professorship of chemistry more than 100 years before any other Italian university. The leading professor of medicine identified the symptoms of angina pectoris 140 years before an English scholar named the disease. The star law professor advanced new legal theories while secretly spying for James I of England. The Jesuits taught humanities, philosophy, and theology in ways both similar to and different from lay professors. A superlative study of education, politics, and culture in seventeenth-century Italy, this book reconsiders a period in Italy’s history often characterized as one of feckless rulers and stagnant learning. Thanks to extensive archival research and a thorough examination of the published works of the university's professors, Grendler's history tells a new story.

Book The Gonzaga of Mantua and Pisanello s Arthurian Frescoes

Download or read book The Gonzaga of Mantua and Pisanello s Arthurian Frescoes written by Joanna Woods-Marsden and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unfinished frescoes by Antonio Pisanello in the Ducal Palace in Mantua have intrigued and puzzled art historians since their rediscovery in the 1960s. In the most extensive discussion in English of these important paintings, Joanna Woods-Marsden identifies the frescoes as a coherent cycle depicting an episode from the "prose Lancelot," a thirteenthy2Dcentury French romance. Dating the cycle c. 1447-48, she argues that it was commissioned by Lodovico Gonzaga, ruler of Mantua, and suggests that the work, located in an important reception-hall in the mid-fifteenth-century palace, documents its patron's political and social self-image and ambitions. Not only does the book consider Pisanello's pictorial style in the context of the values, pretensions, and illusions of the Gonzaga court, but it also constitutes a study of his artistic career, of the links between the cycle's pictorial design and the Lancelot's narrative structure, and of Pisanello's physical execution of the frescoes and sinopie.

Book Tapestries for the Courts of Federico II  Ercole  and Ferrante Gonzaga  1522 63

Download or read book Tapestries for the Courts of Federico II Ercole and Ferrante Gonzaga 1522 63 written by Clifford M. Brown and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clifford M. Brown has exhaustively researched archival material in Mantua and Parma in order to document the tapestries commissioned for or purchased by the sons of Francesco II Gonzaga and Isabella d'Este.

Book The Arthur of the Italians

Download or read book The Arthur of the Italians written by and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive book on the Arthurian legend in medieval and Renaissance Italy since Edmund Gardner’s 1930 The Arthurian Legend in Italian Literature. Arthurian material reached all levels of Italian society, from princely courts with their luxury books and frescoed palaces, to the merchant classes and even popular audiences in the piazza, which enjoyed shorter retellings in verse and prose. Unique assemblages emerge on Italian soil, such as the Compilation of Rustichello da Pisa or the innovative Tavola Ritonda, in versions made for both Tuscany and the Po Valley. Chapters examine the transmission of the French romances across Italy; reworkings in various Italian regional dialects; the textual relations of the prose Tristan; narrative structures employed by Italian writers; later ottava rima poetic versions in the new medium of printed books; the Arthurian-themed art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance; and more. The Arthur of the Italians offers a rich corpus of new criticism by scholars who have brought the Italian Arthurian material back into critical conversation.

Book The Italian Book 1465 1800

Download or read book The Italian Book 1465 1800 written by Denis Vincent Reidy and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The introduction of printing in Italy coincided with the flowering of the Renaissance in Europe. Enterprising printers established themselves in many towns, and a complex interrelated network of authors, suppliers and booksellers developed to serve the expanding market both at home and throughout Europe. The Italian Book 1465-1800 addresses a host of issues and problems, which three centuries of the history of the book in Italy, present for modern researchers, in essays written by scholars in the field of historic bibliography. The volume is published in honour of Dennis E. Rhodes, retired Deputy Keeper in the British Library, and a prolific contributor to scholarly study of printing in Italy.

Book Mario Equicola

Download or read book Mario Equicola written by Stephen Kolsky and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1991 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum

Download or read book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum written by British Library and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Angelical Youth Saint Aloysius of Gonzaga  Proposed as an Example of a Holy Life  with Some Considerations   c    Tr  by M E  Di Gonzaga Mantua

Download or read book The Angelical Youth Saint Aloysius of Gonzaga Proposed as an Example of a Holy Life with Some Considerations c Tr by M E Di Gonzaga Mantua written by Pasquale De Mattei and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Orpheus in the Academy

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  • Author : Joel Schwindt
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2021-08-09
  • ISBN : 1000431339
  • Pages : 243 pages

Download or read book Orpheus in the Academy written by Joel Schwindt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-09 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces a new perspective on Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo (1607), a work widely regarded as the 'first great opera', by exploring the influence of the Mantuan Accademia deglia Invaghiti, the group which hosted the opera’s performance, and to which the libretto author, Alessandro Striggio the Younger, belonged. Arguing that the Invaghiti played a key role in shaping the development of Orfeo, the author explores the philosophical underpinnings of the Invaghiti and Italian academies of the era. Drawing on new primary sources, he shows how the Invaghiti’s ideas about literature, dramaturgy, music, gender, and aesthetics were engaged and contested in the creation and staging of Orfeo. Relevant to researchers of music history, performance, and Renaissance and Baroque Italy, this study sheds new light on Monteverdi’s opera as an intellectual and philosophical work.