Download or read book MAGIA EN LA VILLA Y CORTE DE LOS AUSTRIAS I II III written by philip bates and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-06-24 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En octubre del año 1665, mientras Madrid prepara los funerales del rey Felipe IV, Lorenzo Gonzaga, un joven procedente de la pequeña ciudad castellana de Arévalo, entra en la capital del Reino, acompañado de su tío, el canónigo de Sigüenza don Baltasar Gonzaga. Por voluntad de su moribundo padre, va a ingresar en un convento franciscano intramuros de la Villa y Corte. Allí conocerá a Esteban, otro novicio, y a Bartolo, criado del establecimiento, con quienes se comprometerá a fugarse del monasterio en el momento oportuno.Mientras éste llega, Lorenzo se consagra al estudio, de modo que, al finalizar el noviciado y antes de que llegue el momento de formular los votos, es destinado a la biblioteca como ayudante del padre Felipe. Es en ese momento cuando descubre un pasadizo secreto que une su celda con el exterior, pero que también le pone en contacto con el mundo fascinante que bulle a su alrededor, al tiempo que le revelará una faceta inconfesable de su maestro bibliotecario, fray Felipe.
Download or read book MAGIA EN LA VILLA Y CORTE DE LOS AUSTRIAS III written by philip bates and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-06-24 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En octubre del año 1665, mientras Madrid prepara los funerales del rey Felipe IV, Lorenzo Gonzaga, un joven procedente de la pequeña ciudad castellana de Arévalo, entra en la capital del Reino, acompañado de su tío, el canónigo de Sigüenza don Baltasar Gonzaga. Por voluntad de su moribundo padre, va a ingresar en un convento franciscano intramuros de la Villa y Corte. Allí conocerá a Esteban, otro novicio, y a Bartolo, criado del establecimiento, con quienes se comprometerá a fugarse del monasterio en el momento oportuno.Mientras éste llega, Lorenzo se consagra al estudio, de modo que, al finalizar el noviciado y antes de que llegue el momento de formular los votos, es destinado a la biblioteca como ayudante del padre Felipe. Es en ese momento cuando descubre un pasadizo secreto que une su celda con el exterior, pero que también le pone en contacto con el mundo fascinante que bulle a su alrededor, al tiempo que le revelará una faceta inconfesable de su maestro bibliotecario, fray Felipe.
Download or read book MAGIA EN LA VILLA Y CORTE DE LOS AUSTRIAS II written by philip bates and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En octubre del año 1665, mientras Madrid prepara los funerales del rey Felipe IV, Lorenzo Gonzaga, un joven procedente de la pequeña ciudad castellana de Arévalo, entra en la capital del Reino, acompañado de su tío, el canónigo de Sigüenza don Baltasar Gonzaga. Por voluntad de su moribundo padre, va a ingresar en un convento franciscano intramuros de la Villa y Corte. Allí conocerá a Esteban, otro novicio, y a Bartolo, criado del establecimiento, con quienes se comprometerá a fugarse del monasterio en el momento oportuno.
Download or read book MAGIA EN LA VILLA Y CORTE DE LOS AUSTRIAS I written by philip bates and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En octubre del año 1665, mientras Madrid prepara los funerales del rey Felipe IV, Lorenzo Gonzaga, un joven procedente de la pequeña ciudad castellana de Arévalo, entra en la capital del Reino, acompañado de su tío, el canónigo de Sigüenza don Baltasar Gonzaga. Por voluntad de su moribundo padre, va a ingresar en un convento franciscano intramuros de la Villa y Corte. Allí conocerá a Esteban, otro novicio, y a Bartolo, criado del establecimiento, con quienes se comprometerá a fugarse del monasterio en el momento oportuno.Mientras éste llega, Lorenzo se consagra al estudio, de modo que, al finalizar el noviciado y antes de que llegue el momento de formular los votos, es destinado a la biblioteca como ayudante del padre Felipe. Es en ese momento cuando descubre un pasadizo secreto que une su celda con el exterior, pero que también le pone en contacto con el mundo fascinante que bulle a su alrededor.
Download or read book Superstici n y magia en tiempo de la Casa de Austria siglos XVI y XVII written by Luis Vallejo de la Villa and published by . This book was released on 195? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Renaissance Fun written by Philip Steadman and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renaissance Fun is about the technology of Renaissance entertainments in stage machinery and theatrical special effects; in gardens and fountains; and in the automata and self-playing musical instruments that were installed in garden grottoes. How did the machines behind these shows work? How exactly were chariots filled with singers let down onto the stage? How were flaming dragons made to fly across the sky? How were seas created on stage? How did mechanical birds imitate real birdsong? What was ‘artificial music’, three centuries before Edison and the phonograph? How could pipe organs be driven and made to play themselves by waterpower alone? And who were the architects, engineers, and craftsmen who created these wonders? All these questions are answered. At the end of the book we visit the lost ‘garden of marvels’ at Pratolino with its many grottoes, automata and water jokes; and we attend the performance of Mercury and Mars in Parma in 1628, with its spectacular stage effects and its music by Claudio Monteverdi – one of the places where opera was born. Renaissance Fun is offered as an entertainment in itself. But behind the show is a more serious scholarly argument, centred on the enormous influence of two ancient writers on these subjects, Vitruvius and Hero. Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture were widely studied by Renaissance theatre designers. Hero of Alexandria wrote the Pneumatics, a collection of designs for surprising and entertaining devices that were the models for sixteenth and seventeenth century automata. A second book by Hero On Automata-Making – much less well known, then and now – describes two miniature theatres that presented plays without human intervention. One of these, it is argued, provided the model for the type of proscenium theatre introduced from the mid-sixteenth century, the generic design which is still built today. As the influence of Vitruvius waned, the influence of Hero grew.
Download or read book The Medici Michelangelo the Art of Late Renaissance Florence written by Cristina Acidini and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Publisdhed in conjuntion with the exhibition: Magnificenza! the Medici, Michelangelo, & the Art of Late Renaissance Florence (In Italy, L'Ombra del genio: Michelangelo e l'arte a Firenze, 1538-1631) ..."--Title page verso.
Download or read book The Flowering of Florence written by Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to coincide with an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, of sixty-eight works of art, primarily from Florentine collections, The Flowering of Florence explores the close ties between art and the natural sciences in Tuscany as seen in the botanical renderings created in Florence for the Medici grand dukes from the late 1500s through the early 1700s. The catalog comprises an essay and checklist with reproductions of the exquisite works in the show. Examples include Jacopo Ligozzi's plant drawings in tempera on paper from the Uffizi Gallery, Giovanna Garzoni's fruit and flower paintings on vellum, and Bartolomeo Bimbi's later and much larger still-life paintings.
Download or read book De Sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period written by Matteo Valleriani and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book explores commentaries on an influential text of pre-Copernican astronomy in Europe. It features essays that take a close look at key intellectuals and how they engaged with the main ideas of this qualitative introduction to geocentric cosmology. Johannes de Sacrobosco compiled his Tractatus de sphaera during the thirteenth century in the frame of his teaching activities at the then recently founded University of Paris. It soon became a mandatory text all over Europe. As a result, a tradition of commentaries to the text was soon established and flourished until the second half of the 17th century. Here, readers will find an informative overview of these commentaries complete with a rich context. The essays explore the educational and social backgrounds of the writers. They also detail how their careers developed after the publication of their commentaries, the institutions and patrons they were affiliated with, what their agenda was, and whether and how they actually accomplished it. The editor of this collection considers these scientific commentaries as genuine scientific works. The contributors investigate them here not only in reference to the work on which it comments but also, and especially, as independent scientific contributions that are socially, institutionally, and intellectually contextualized around their authors.
Download or read book Divination on stage written by Folke Gernert and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magicians, necromancers and astrologers are assiduous characters in the European golden age theatre. This book deals with dramatic characters who act as physiognomists or palm readers in the fictional world and analyses the fictionalisation of physiognomic lore as a practice of divination in early modern Romance theatre from Pietro Aretino and Giordano Bruno to Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca and Thomas Corneille.
Download or read book 1648 War and Peace in Europe Exhibition catalogue written by Klaus Bussmann and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Companion to Cosimo I de Medici written by Alessio Assonitis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mining the rich documentary sources housed in Tuscan archives and taking advantage of the breadth and depth of scholarship produced in recent years, the seventeen essays in this Companion to Cosimo I de' Medici provide a fresh and systematic overview of the life and career of the first Grand Duke of Tuscany, with special emphasis on Cosimo I's education and intellectual interests, cultural policies, political vision, institutional reforms, diplomatic relations, religious beliefs, military entrepreneurship, and dynastic concerns. Contributors: Maurizio Arfaioli, Alessio Assonitis, Nicholas Scott Baker, Sheila Barker, Stefano Calonaci, Brendan Dooley, Daniele Edigati, Sheila ffolliott, Catherine Fletcher, Andrea Gáldy, Fernando Loffredo, Piergabriele Mancuso, Jessica Maratsos, Carmen Menchini, Oscar Schiavone, Marcello Simonetta, and Henk Th. van Veen.
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Download or read book Converso Non Conformism in Early Modern Spain written by Kevin Ingram and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the effects of Jewish conversions to Christianity in late medieval Spanish society. Ingram focuses on these converts and their descendants (known as conversos) not as Judaizers, but as Christian humanists, mystics and evangelists, who attempt to create a new society based on quietist religious practice, merit, and toleration. His narrative takes the reader on a journey from the late fourteenth-century conversions and the first blood purity laws (designed to marginalize conversos), through the early sixteenth-century Erasmian and radical mystical movements, to a Counter-Reformation environment in which conversos become the advocates for pacifism and concordance. His account ends at the court of Philip IV, where growing intolerance towards Madrid’s converso courtiers is subtly attacked by Spain’s greatest painter, Diego Velázquez, in his work, Los Borrachos. Finally, Ingram examines the historiography of early modern Spain, in which he argues the converso reform phenomenon continues to be underexplored.
Download or read book Divining Slavery and Freedom written by João José Reis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its original publication in Portuguese in 2008, this first English translation of Divining Slavery has been extensively revised and updated, complete with new primary sources and a new bibliography. It tells the story of Domingos Sodré, an African-born priest who was enslaved in Bahia, Brazil in the nineteenth century. After obtaining his freedom, Sodré became a slave owner himself, and in 1862 was arrested on suspicion of receiving stolen goods from slaves in exchange for supposed 'witchcraft'. Using this incident as a catalyst, the book discusses African religion and its place in a slave society, analyzing its double role as a refuge for blacks as well as a bridge between classes and ethnic groups (such as whites who attended African rituals and sought help from African diviners and medicine men). Ultimately, Divining Slavery explores the fluidity and relativity of conditions such as slavery and freedom, African and local religions, personal and collective experience and identities in the lives of Africans in the Brazilian diaspora.
Download or read book Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Philobiblon written by Richard De Bury and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Will always hold an honorable place for bibliophiles." — The University of Chicago Press One of the earliest treatises on the value of preserving neglected manuscripts, building a library, and book collecting, Richard De Bury's The Philobiblon was written in 1345 and circulated widely in manuscript form for over a century. The first printed edition appeared in Cologne in 1473, and several others soon followed as the invention of the printing press spread throughout the late Medieval world. The chapter titles of this legendary work reflect its nature, combining the author's love for and commitment to the importance of books and the knowledge they contain with thoughts on collecting them, lending them, teaching with them, and simply enjoying them: "That the Treasure of Wisdom is chiefly contained in books," "What we are to think of the price in the buying of books," "Who ought to be special lovers of books," and "Of the manner of lending all our books to students." The Prologue ends with the following thought: "And this treatise (divided into twenty chapters) will clear the love we have had for books from the charge of excess, will expound the purpose of our intense devotion, and will narrate more clearly than light all the circumstances of our undertaking. And because it principally treats of the love of books, we have chose after the fashion of the ancient Romans fondly to name it by a Greek word, Philobiblon." This volume offers modern bibliophiles a splendid edition of one of the first books ever to study, define, and, above all, praise their passion: the all-encompassing love of books.
