Download or read book The City in Italian Renaissance Comedy written by Carmela Pesca and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian Renaissance comedy represents the city in its materialized presence on stage, and as a complex cultural context. The urban landscape is not a static background in comedies, but a dynamic environment reflecting the heterogeneity of the urban community. Based on classical models, medieval sources and civic humanistic projects, the comic scene appears at once as a realistic representation and an ideal image. In comic plots, the perfect model of the humanistic peaceful city becomes a space filled with imperfect people, where different actions interlace, in a variety of intrigues that involve both public and private life. Individual differences and common civic identity of the characters-citizens are juxtaposed in an effort to achieve a reconciliation of points of view. Combining historical and literary perspectives, this study focuses on selected works, from (1) Ariosto's Cassaria to (2) Bibbiena's Calandria, and from (3) Machiavelli's Mandragola to (4) Giordano Bruno's Candelaio. These comedies express, in different ways, the idea of urban conviviality in their themes and structures. Comic action, in fact, is finalized to reestablish an equilibrium easily interrupted by human passions. The city is considered as an integral part of Italian Renaissance comedy, because its image pursues the harmony between virtue and pleasure (the two symbols of civitas), expressing the synthesis of ideal and real, order and disorder, art and life.
Download or read book Five Italian Renaissance Comedies written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Birth of Modern Comedy in Renaissance Italy written by Douglas Radcliff-Umstead and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Five Comedies from the Italian Renaissance written by Laura Giannetti and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-07-03 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humor, sex, and satirized or upturned gender roles and social stereotypes characterize the Latin comedies updated and translated into Italian that became popular in Italy at the turn of the 16th century. The translations are by and for scholars of literature and history, rather than for production or performance. There are explanatory notes, but no bibliography or index. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Download or read book Italian Comedy in the Renaissance written by Marvin Theodore Herrick and published by Books for Libraries. This book was released on 1970 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Five Comedies from the Italian Renaissance written by Laura Giannetti and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-07-03 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humor, sex, and satirized or upturned gender roles and social stereotypes characterize the Latin comedies updated and translated into Italian that became popular in Italy at the turn of the 16th century. The translations are by and for scholars of literature and history, rather than for production or performance. There are explanatory notes, but no bibliography or index. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Download or read book Five Italian Renaissance Comedies written by Bruce Penman and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 1978 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Braggart in Italian Renaissance Comedy written by Daniel Cliness Boughner and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Renaissance Comedy written by Donald Beecher and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reviving the Eternal City written by Elizabeth McCahill and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1420, after more than one hundred years of the Avignon Exile and the Western Schism, the papal court returned to Rome, which had become depopulated, dangerous, and impoverished in the papacy's absence. Reviving the Eternal City examines the culture of Rome and the papal court during the first half of the fifteenth century. As Elizabeth McCahill explains, during these decades Rome and the Curia were caught between conflicting realities--between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, between conciliarism and papalism, between an image of Rome as a restored republic and a dream of the city as a papal capital. Through the testimony of humanists' rhetorical texts and surviving archival materials, McCahill reconstructs the niche that scholars carved for themselves as they penned vivid descriptions of Rome and offered remedies for contemporary social, economic, religious, and political problems. In addition to analyzing the humanists' intellectual and professional program, McCahill investigates the different agendas that popes Martin V (1417-1431) and Eugenius IV (1431-1447) and their cardinals had for the post-Schism pontificate. Reviving the Eternal City illuminates an urban environment in transition and explores the ways in which curialists collaborated and competed to develop Rome's ancient legacy into a potent cultural myth.
Download or read book Three Renaissance Comedies written by Christopher Cairns and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents English translations of three Italian Renaissance comedies not readily available to the English-speaking reader and director: Ariosto's Lena; Ruzante's Posh Talk; and Aretino's Talanta. Of contrasting styles, they share some characteristics, which mirror the advance of all Italian literature from humanism to the Counter-Reformation, from Bembo to Sperone Speroni and from rudimentary or symbolic staging to a comparatively sophisticated realism in the treatment of stage space.
Download or read book Five Italian Renaissance Comedies written by Machiavelli Penman and published by . This book was released on with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ariosto s The Supposes Machiavelli s The Mandrake Intronati s The Deceived written by Jennifer Lorch and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers newly-translated texts of three established classics of Italian Renaissance comedy, with scholarly introductions and bibliographies for each.
Download or read book Italian Women and the City written by Janet Levarie Smarr and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of the city, and of women's experiences of the city, have focused primarily on modern times, especially as modernism was defined in large part by urban life. Italy, however, has a long history of urban-centered culture, and women have been a vocal part of that culture since the Renaissance. This volume, therefore, looks at the art and literature of both earlier and more modern periods to investigate the meanings of the city for Italian women, the intensely gendered meanings (for both sexes) of those city spaces that excluded women, and the conditions that permitted a limited permeability of gendered boundaries. Two aspects to the combination of "women" and "city" are salient to these investigations. One involves their metaphorical relationship. Urbs, citta, ville -- the words for city tend to be grammatically feminine, and a long tradition of representation associates the city. with a woman. Women, especially writers, could exploit, modify, or resist the prevailing uses of such metaphors. The second aspect of connection involves social realities. What was or is the relation of the (female) city with the real women who inhabit it? What kind of site has it provided for women seeking a satisfying life for themselves? How has art and literature, by men and by women, represented the relationship of female persons or characters to urban spaces?
Download or read book Renaissance Comedy written by Donald Beecher and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second volume of Renaissance Comedy, Donald Beecher presents six more of the best-known plays of the period, each with its own introduction, reading notes, and annotations. Beecher's general introduction, though stand-alone, complements and extends the historical and critical essay prefacing the first volume. Together, the eleven plays in both volumes illuminate the range, variety, and development of the Italian comedy. The second volume of Renaissance Comedy raises fascinating questions about the uses of classical literature, the conventions of comedy, the politics of theatrical production, and the representation of contemporary social issues. Though it is clear that comedic plays exercised considerable influence over the development of European drama, these plays are above all remarkable for their sheer wit and invention, and their capacity to generate laughter and admiration in readers nearly half a millennium later.
Download or read book Ariosto s The Supposes written by Christopher Cairns and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance written by Christopher S. Celenza and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new view of Italian Renaissance intellectual life, linking philosophy and literature as expressed in both Latin and Italian.
