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Book Sceptres and Sciences in the Spains

Download or read book Sceptres and Sciences in the Spains written by Ruth Hill and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sceptres and Sciences argues convincingly that previous research on the Hispanic Late Baroque has underweighted the ideologies of ethnicity and empire embedded in Cartesianism and French neoclassicism. "... a masterful work of scholarship... should become essential reading in the field of Colonial and Spanish Enlightenment Studies."—Bulletin of Hispanic Studies

Book Catalogue on the Very Extensive and Valuable Library of the Late Reverend Dr  Wellesley

Download or read book Catalogue on the Very Extensive and Valuable Library of the Late Reverend Dr Wellesley written by Henry Wellesley and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology

Download or read book Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology written by James Mark Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Catalogue of the Library of the Late John  Duke of Roxburghe

Download or read book A Catalogue of the Library of the Late John Duke of Roxburghe written by John Ker Duke of Roxburghe and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Della Vita E Degli Scritti Di Orazio Ricasoli Rucellai

Download or read book Della Vita E Degli Scritti Di Orazio Ricasoli Rucellai written by Augusto Alfani and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Discipline Filosofiche  2007 2

Download or read book Discipline Filosofiche 2007 2 written by Roberto Brigati and published by Quodlibet. This book was released on 2008 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Heroic in Music

    Book Details:
  • Author : Beate Kutschke
  • Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
  • Release : 2022
  • ISBN : 1783276894
  • Pages : 303 pages

Download or read book The Heroic in Music written by Beate Kutschke and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconstructs the socio-political history of the heroic in music through case studies spanning the middle ages to the twenty-first century The first part of this volume reconstructs the various musical strategies that composers of medieval chant, Renaissance madrigals, and Baroque operas, cantatas or oratorios employed when referring to heroic ideas exemplifying their personal moral and political values. A second part investigating the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries expands the previous narrow focus on Beethoven's heroic middle period and the cult of the virtuoso. It demonstrates the wide spectrum of heroic positions - national, ethnic, revolutionary, bourgeois and spiritual - that filtered not only into 'classical' large-scale heroic symphonies and virtuoso solo concerts, but also into chamber music and vernacular dance music. The third part documents the forced heroization of music in twentieth-century totalitarian regimes such as Nazi-Germany and the Soviet Union and its consequences for heroic thinking and musical styles in the time thereafter. Final chapters show how recent rock-folk and avant-garde musicians in North America and Europe feature new heroic models such as the everyday hero and the scientific heroine revealing new confidence in the idea of the heroic.

Book Index to the catalogue of books in the upper hall

Download or read book Index to the catalogue of books in the upper hall written by Boston Mass, publ. libr and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sensibilities of the Risorgimento

Download or read book Sensibilities of the Risorgimento written by Roberto Romani and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A purely political framework does not capture the complexity of the culture behind Italians’ struggle for liberty and independence during the Risorgimento (1815-1861). Roberto Romani identifies the sensibilities associated with each of the two main political programmes, Mazzini’s republicanism and moderatism, which in fact were comprehensive projects for a political, moral, and religious resurgence. The moderates’ espousal of reason entailed an ideal personality expressed by private virtue, self-possession, and a public morality informed by Catholicism, while Mazzini’s advocacy of passions led to ‘enthusiasm’ and a total commitment to the cause. Romani demonstrates that the patriots’ moral quest rested on a thick cultural bedrock, dating back to Stoicism and the Catholic Aufklärung, and passing through Rousseau and the Revolution.

Book Saggi Filosofici

    Book Details:
  • Author : Benedetto Croce
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1927
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 462 pages

Download or read book Saggi Filosofici written by Benedetto Croce and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dante

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  • Author : John Took
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2021-12-14
  • ISBN : 069120893X
  • Pages : 608 pages

Download or read book Dante written by John Took and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For all that has been written about the author of the Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) remains the best guide to his own life and work. Dante's writings are therefore never far away in this authoritative and comprehensive intellectual biography, which offers a fresh account of the medieval Florentine poet's life and thought before and after his exile in 1302. Beginning with the often violent circumstances of Dante's life, the book examines his successive works as testimony to the course of his passionate humanity: his lyric poetry through to the Vita nova as the great work of his first period; the Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia and the poems of his early years in exile; and the Monarchia and the Commedia as the product of his maturity. Describing as it does a journey of the mind, the book confirms the nature of Dante's undertaking as an exploration of what he himself speaks of as "maturity in the flame of love." The result is an original synthesis of Dante's life and work." --Amazon.com.

Book A catalogue of the library of     John duke of Roxburghe  which will be sold by auction  18th May 1812  and the  blank  following days  by R H  Evans   With  A suppl  The books will be sold 13 July  1812  and the 3 following days  and  The prices of the Roxburghe library   With  A suppl   and  The prices

Download or read book A catalogue of the library of John duke of Roxburghe which will be sold by auction 18th May 1812 and the blank following days by R H Evans With A suppl The books will be sold 13 July 1812 and the 3 following days and The prices of the Roxburghe library With A suppl and The prices written by G. and W. Nicol and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fear of Hell

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  • Author : Piero Camporesi
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN : 9780271007342
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book The Fear of Hell written by Piero Camporesi and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fear of Hell is a provocative study of two of the most powerful images in Christianity&—hell and the eucharist. Drawing upon the writings of Italian preachers and theologians of the Counter-Reformation, Piero Camporesi demonstrates the extraordinary power of the Baroque imagination to conjure up punishments, tortures, and the rewards of sin. In the first part of the book, Camporesi argues that hell was a very real part of everyday life during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Preachers portrayed hell in images typical of common experience, comparing it to a great city, a hospital, a prison, a natural disaster, a rioting mob, or a feuding family. The horror lay in the extremes to which these familiar images could be taken. The city of hell was not an ordinary city, but a filthy, stinking, and overcrowded place, an underworld &"sewer&" overflowing with the refuse of decaying flesh and excrement&—shocking but not beyond human imagination. What was most disturbing about this grotesque imagery was the realization by the people of the day that the punishment of afterlife was an extension of their daily experience in a fallen world. Thus, according to Camporesi, the fear of hell had many manifestations over the centuries, aided by such powerful promoters as Gregory the Great and Dante, but ironically it was during the Counter-Reformation that hell's tie with the physical world became irrevocable, making its secularization during the Enlightenment ultimately easier. The eucharist, or host, the subject of the second part of the book, represented corporeal salvation for early modern Christians and was therefore closely linked with the imagery of hell, the place of perpetual corporeal destruction. As the bread of life, the host possessed many miraculous powers of healing and sustenance, which made it precious to those in need. In fact, it was seen to be so precious to some that Camporesi suggests that there was a &"clandestine consumption of the sacred unleavened bread, a network of dealers and sellers&" and a &"market of consumers.&" But to those who ate the host unworthily was the prospect of swift retribution. One wicked priest continued to celebrate the mass despite his sin, and as a result, &"his tongue and half of his face became rotten, thus demonstrating, unwillingly, by the stench of his decaying face, how much the pestiferous smell of his contaminated heart was abominable to God.&" When received properly, however, the host was a source of health and life both in this world and in the world to come. Written with style and imagination, The Fear of Hell offers a vivid and scholarly examination of themes central to Christian culture, whose influence can still be found in our beliefs and customs today.