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Book Classe Di Scienze Morali  Storiche E Filolgiche

Download or read book Classe Di Scienze Morali Storiche E Filolgiche written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliotheca Grenvilliana

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  • Author : Thomas Grenville
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2024-05-26
  • ISBN : 3385129990
  • Pages : 438 pages

Download or read book Bibliotheca Grenvilliana written by Thomas Grenville and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-26 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.

Book Opera in Seventeenth Century Venice

Download or read book Opera in Seventeenth Century Venice written by Ellen Rosand and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-10-09 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this elegantly constructed study of the early decades of public opera, the conflicts and cooperation of poets, composers, managers, designers, and singers—producing the art form that was soon to sweep the world and that has been dominant ever since—are revealed in their first freshness."—Andrew Porter "This will be a standard work on the subject of the rise of Venetian opera for decades. Rosand has provided a decisive contribution to the reshaping of the entire subject. . . . She offers a profoundly new view of baroque opera based on a solid documentary and historical-critical foundation. The treatment of the artistic self-consciousness and professional activities of the librettists, impresarios, singers, and composers is exemplary, as is the examination of their reciprocal relations. This work will have a positive effect not only on studies of 17th-century, but on the history of opera in general."—Lorenzo Bianconi

Book The End

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  • Author : Salvatore Scibona
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2009-10-06
  • ISBN : 1101150920
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book The End written by Salvatore Scibona and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incredible debut and National Book Award-nominated novel, described as "Memento meets Augie March. Didion meets Hitchcock" by Esquire, from the author of The Volunteer It is August 15, 1953, the day of a boisterous and unwieldy street carnival in Elephant Park, an Italian immigrant enclave in northern Ohio. As the festivities reach a riotous pitch and billow into the streets, five members of the community labor under the weight of a terrible secret. As these floundering souls collide, one day of calamity and consequence sheds light on a half century of their struggles, their follies, and their pride. And slowly, it becomes clear that buried deep in the hearts of these five exquisitely drawn characters is the long-silenced truth about the crime that twisted each of their worlds. Cast against the racial, spiritual, and moral tension that has given rise to modern America, this first novel exhumes the secrets lurking in the darkened crevices of the soul of our country. Inventive, explosive, and revelatory, The End introduces Salvatore Scibona as an important new voice in American fiction.

Book Ekphrastic Image making in Early Modern Europe  1500   1700

Download or read book Ekphrastic Image making in Early Modern Europe 1500 1700 written by Arthur J. DiFuria and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines how and why many early modern pictures operate in an ekphrastic mode.

Book A Companion to Pietro Aretino

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  • Author : Marco Faini
  • Publisher : Renaissance Society of America
  • Release : 2021
  • ISBN : 9789004348059
  • Pages : 624 pages

Download or read book A Companion to Pietro Aretino written by Marco Faini and published by Renaissance Society of America. This book was released on 2021 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Companion to Pietro Aretino offers exhaustive yet accessible essays aimed at understanding this complex and fascinating author. Its scope extends beyond the field of Italian studies, and includes references to other European literatures, visual arts, music, performance studies, gender studies, and social and religious history. It explores previously neglected areas of Aretino's literary and biographical identity: in particular, his religious writings and their fortune, his relationships to visual arts and music and his fashioning of a public persona. The essays here included support the current scholarly trend that no longer considers Aretino merely as a pornographer, but interpret his work in the light of the contemporary religious debate and cultural crisis"--

Book Bibliotheca Grenvilliana

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  • Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books. Grenville Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1842
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 450 pages

Download or read book Bibliotheca Grenvilliana written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books. Grenville Library and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Atlantica

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  • Author : Filippo Càssola
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1933
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 806 pages

Download or read book Atlantica written by Filippo Càssola and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Undivine Comedy

Download or read book The Undivine Comedy written by Teodolinda Barolini and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1992-10-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accepting Dante's prophetic truth claims on their own terms, Teodolinda Barolini proposes a "detheologized" reading as a global new approach to the Divine Comedy. Not aimed at excising theological concerns from Dante, this approach instead attempts to break out of the hermeneutic guidelines that Dante structured into his poem and that have resulted in theologized readings whose outcomes have been overdetermined by the poet. By detheologizing, the reader can emerge from this poet's hall of mirrors and discover the narrative techniques that enabled Dante to forge a true fiction. Foregrounding the formal exigencies that Dante masked as ideology, Barolini moves from the problems of beginning to those of closure, focusing always on the narrative journey. Her investigation--which treats such topics as the visionary and the poet, the One and the many, narrative and time--reveals some of the transgressive paths trodden by a master of mimesis, some of the ways in which Dante's poetic adventuring is indeed, according to his own lights, Ulyssean.

Book The Da Vinci Globe

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  • Author : Stefaan Missinne
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2019-01-17
  • ISBN : 1527526143
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book The Da Vinci Globe written by Stefaan Missinne and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chance discovery at a distinguished London map fair in 2012 by a Belgian globe collector produced the most unique of finds: a distinct globe with mysterious images, such as old ships, sailors, a volcano, a hybrid monster, pentimenti, waving patterns, conic individualised mountains, curving rivers, vigorous coastal lines, chiaroscuro and an unresolved triangular anagram, which remains an enigma. The globe is hand-engraved in great detail on ostrich egg shells from Pavia by a left-handed Renaissance genius of unquestionable quality. It shows secret knowledge of the map world from the time of Columbus, Cabral, Amerigo Vespucci and Leonardo da Vinci. Central and North America are covered by a vast ocean. The da Vinci globe originates from Florence and dates from 1504. It marks the first time ever that the names of countries such as Brazil, Germania, Arabia and Judea have appeared on a globe. A Leonardo drawing for this globe, showing the coast of the New World and Africa has been discovered in the British Library. This book brings the reader through a fabulous journey of scholars, maps, riddles, rebuses, iconographic symbols and enigmatic phrases such as HIC SVNT DRACONES to illuminate the da Vinci globe. It details 500 years of mystery, fine scholarship and expert forensic testing at numerous material science laboratories the world over. The da Vinci globe now takes its rightful place, surpassing the Lenox globe, its copper-cast identical twin, as the most mysterious globe of our time. As such, this monograph is an essential text in Leonardo studies and in the history of cartography.

Book K  ramos and Other Poems

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  • Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2023-05-03
  • ISBN : 9781628342918
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book K ramos and Other Poems written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique Element About the Author / Historical Context A COLLECTION OF POEMS by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. Kéramos and Other Poems, by AMERICAN author HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882) is a collection of poems first published in 1878 in the UNITED STATES. Longfellow wrote many lyric poems known for their musicality and often presenting stories of mythology and legend. He was among the most popular American poet of his day and had success overseas. This volume contains some original poems by Longfellow, as well as his translations of Virgil, Ovid, and others, including seven sonnets and one canzone by Michelangelo. Included among the poems in this collection are "The Leap of the Roushan Beg," the famous "Haroun Al Raschid" and the sequence "Birds of Passage: Flight the Fifth." "Art is the child of nature," wrote the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his book of poetry, Kéramos and Other Poems. Sneak Peak Art is the child of Nature; yes, Her darling child, in whom we trace The features of the mother's face, Her aspect and her attitude, All her majestic loveliness Chastened and softened and subdued Into a more attractive grace, And with a human sense imbued. Title Details Originally published in 1878

Book Bibliotheca Grenvilliana   Or Bibliographical Notices of Rare and Curious Books  Forming Part of the Library of Thomas Grenville

Download or read book Bibliotheca Grenvilliana Or Bibliographical Notices of Rare and Curious Books Forming Part of the Library of Thomas Grenville written by John Thomas Payne and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Divine Comedy     Translated in Terza Rima by John Dayman

Download or read book The Divine Comedy Translated in Terza Rima by John Dayman written by Dante Alighieri and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Atlantica

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1934
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 446 pages

Download or read book Atlantica written by and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cosimo I De  Medici and His Self Representation in Florentine Art and Culture

Download or read book Cosimo I De Medici and His Self Representation in Florentine Art and Culture written by Hendrik Thijs van Veen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, Henk Th. van Veen reassesses how Cosimo de' Medici represented himself in images during the course of his rule. The text examines not only art and architecture, but also literature, historiography, religion, and festive culture.

Book The Narrative of Realism and Myth

Download or read book The Narrative of Realism and Myth written by Gregory L. Lucente and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: