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Book Vita di Cosimo de  Medici primo  gran duca di Toscana

Download or read book Vita di Cosimo de Medici primo gran duca di Toscana written by Lorenzo Cantini and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Orazione fatta nella Accademia Fiorentina  in lode del serenissimo sig  Cosimo Medici gran duca di Toscana  gloriosa memoria  Da m  Baccio Baldini suo protomedico

Download or read book Orazione fatta nella Accademia Fiorentina in lode del serenissimo sig Cosimo Medici gran duca di Toscana gloriosa memoria Da m Baccio Baldini suo protomedico written by Baccio Baldini and published by . This book was released on 1574 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ragionamenti

Download or read book The Ragionamenti written by Pietro Aretino and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Companion to Cosimo I de    Medici

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.

Book The Material Renaissance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michelle O'Malley
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2010-06-15
  • ISBN : 9780719081255
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book The Material Renaissance written by Michelle O'Malley and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the recent interests of economic and art historians in the workings of the market, we still know remarkably little about the everyday context for the exchange of objects and the meaning of demand in the lives of individuals in the Renaissance. Nor do we have much sense of the relationship between the creation and purchase of works of art and the production, buying and selling of other types of objects in Italy in the period. The Material Renaissance addresses these issues of economic and social life. It develops the analysis of demand, supply and exchange first proposed by Richard Goldthwaite in his ground-breaking Wealth and the Demand for Art in Renaissance Italy, and expands our understanding of the particularities of exchange in this consumer-led period. Considering food, clothing and every--day furnishings, as well as books, goldsmiths’ work, altarpieces and other luxury goods, the book draws on contemporary archival material to explore pricing, to investigate production from the point of view of demand, and to look at networks of exchange that relied not only on money but also on credit, payment in kind and gift giving. The Material Renaissance establishes the dynamic social character of exchange. It demonstrates that the cost of goods, including the price of the most basic items, was largely contingent upon on the relationship between buyer and seller, shows that communities actively sought new goods and novel means of production long before Colbert encouraged such industrial enterprise in France and reveals the wide ownership of objects, even among the economically disadvantaged.

Book The Cambridge Companion to Seneca

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Seneca written by Shadi Bartsch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion examines the complete works of Seneca in context and establishes the importance of his legacy in Western thought.

Book Strategic Affection

Download or read book Strategic Affection written by Irma Thoen and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early days of humanity, gifts as varied as valued objects, hospitality, and works of art have been an essential means of establishing and maintaining social ties. Strategic Affection? studies the exchange of gifts in order to explore the nature of seventeenth-century Dutch social relations. Looking at such widely divergent figures as schoolmasters, artisans, poets, and nobles, Irma Thoen compares seventeenth-century Dutch gifts with contemporary gift exchanges to show that both strategy and affection are necessary elements of any social relations—and that what changes most is not the system but the discourse of exchange.

Book Seneca on Society

    Book Details:
  • Author : Miriam T. Griffin
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2013-03-14
  • ISBN : 0199245487
  • Pages : 410 pages

Download or read book Seneca on Society written by Miriam T. Griffin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A volume which explores in detail Seneca's De Beneficiis. Divided into three sections, it looks at the historical and philosophical context of the work, its relation to Seneca's other texts, and concludes with a detailed synopsis of each book, accompanied by notes in commentary form.

Book The Question of the Gift

Download or read book The Question of the Gift written by Mark Osteen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Question of the Gift is the first collection of new interdisciplinary essays on the gift. Bringing together scholars from a variety of fields, including anthropology, literary criticism, economics, philosophy and classics, it provides new paradigms and poses new questions concerning the theory and practice of gift exchange. In addressing these questions, contributors not only challenge the conventions of their fields, but also combine ideas and methods from both the social sciences and humanities to forge innovative ways of confronting this universal phenomenon.

Book Social Solidarity and the Gift

Download or read book Social Solidarity and the Gift written by Aafke E. Komter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together two traditions of thinking about social ties: sociological theory on sol idarity and anthropological theory on gift exchange. The purpose of the book is to explore how both theoretical traditions may complete and enrich each other, and how they may illuminate transformations in solidarity. The main argument, supported by empirical illustrations, is that a theory of solidarity should incorporate some of the core insights from anthropological gift theory. The book presents a theoretical model covering both positive and negative--selective and excluding--aspects and consequences of solidarity.

Book Commentary on Seneca s de Clementia

Download or read book Commentary on Seneca s de Clementia written by Calvin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Gift in Antiquity

Download or read book The Gift in Antiquity written by Michael Satlow and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gift in Antiquity presents a collection of 14 original essays that apply French sociologist Marcel Mauss’s notion of gift-giving to the study of antiquity. Features a collection of original essays that cover such wide-ranging topics as vows in the Hebrew Bible; ancient Greek wedding gifts; Hellenistic civic practices; Latin literature; Roman and Jewish burial practices; and Jewish and Christian religious gifts Organizes essays around theoretical concerns rather than chronologically Generates unique insights into gift-giving and reciprocity in antiquity Takes an explicitly cross-cultural approach to the study of ancient history

Book Brill s Companion to Seneca

Download or read book Brill s Companion to Seneca written by Andreas Heil and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 895 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new and important introduction to Seneca provides a systematic and concise presentation of this author’s philosophical works and his tragedies. It provides handbook style surveys of each genuine or attributed work, giving dates and brief descriptions, and taking into account the most important philosophical and philological issues. In addition, they provide accounts of the major steps in the history of their later influence. The cultural background of the texts and the most important problem areas within the philosophic and tragic corpus of Seneca are dealt with in separate essays.

Book Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage

Download or read book Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage written by Phebe Lowell Bowditch and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-03-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative study explores selected odes and epistles by the late-first-century poet Horace in light of modern anthropological and literary theory. Phebe Lowell Bowditch looks in particular at how the relationship between Horace and his patron Maecenas is reflected in these poems' themes and rhetorical figures. Using anthropological studies on gift exchange, she uncovers an implicit economic dynamic in these poems and skillfully challenges standard views on literary patronage in this period. Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage provides a striking new understanding of Horace's poems and the Roman system of patronage, and also demonstrates the relevance of New Historicist and Marxist critical paradigms for Roman studies. In addition to incorporating anthropological and sociological perspectives, Bowditch's theoretical approach makes use of concepts drawn from linguistics, deconstruction, and the work of Michel Foucault. She weaves together these ideas in an original approach to Horace's use of golden age imagery, his language concerning public gifts or munera, his metaphors of sacrifice, and the rhetoric of class and status found in these poems. Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage represents an original approach to central issues and questions in the study of Latin literature, and sheds new light on our understanding of Roman society in general.

Book The Culture of Giving

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2008-03-17
  • ISBN : 0521867231
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Culture of Giving written by Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative study of gift-giving, informal support and charity in England between the late 16th and early 18th centuries examines the adaptation and transformation of varied forms of informal help.