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Book Renata of Este

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  • Author : C. Strack
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1872
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 270 pages

Download or read book Renata of Este written by C. Strack and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Night Buster Keaton Dreamed Me

Download or read book The Night Buster Keaton Dreamed Me written by Kerry Muir and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NIGHT BUSTER KEATON DREAMED ME by Kerry Muir with Spanish Translation by Ercilia Sahores. This bilingual edition (English-Spanish) of Muir's enchanting play is for audiences young and old. This publication is from NoPassport Press.

Book La Venganza de Renata

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  • Author : Abraham DeSantander
  • Publisher : Trafford Publishing
  • Release : 2008-12-15
  • ISBN : 142515672X
  • Pages : 484 pages

Download or read book La Venganza de Renata written by Abraham DeSantander and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-15 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Me instruyeron para un destino y entrenaron para matar, desenmascare a los traidores... !Monta y paga carajo, tu cabeza, el precio de mi venganza!

Book A Convert   s Tale

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  • Author : Tamar Herzig
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2019-12-03
  • ISBN : 0674242564
  • Pages : 401 pages

Download or read book A Convert s Tale written by Tamar Herzig and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate portrait, based on newly discovered archival sources, of one of the most famous Jewish artists of the Italian Renaissance who, charged with a scandalous crime, renounced his faith and converted to Catholicism. In 1491 the renowned goldsmith Salomone da Sesso converted to Catholicism. Born in the mid-fifteenth century to a Jewish family in Florence, Salomone later settled in Ferrara, where he was regarded as a virtuoso artist whose exquisite jewelry and lavishly engraved swords were prized by Italy’s ruling elite. But rumors circulated about Salomone’s behavior, scandalizing the Jewish community, who turned him over to the civil authorities. Charged with sodomy, Salomone was sentenced to die but agreed to renounce Judaism to save his life. He was baptized, taking the name Ercole “de’ Fedeli” (“One of the Faithful”). With the help of powerful patrons like Duchess Eleonora of Aragon and Duke Ercole d’Este, his namesake, Ercole lived as a practicing Catholic for three more decades. Drawing on newly discovered archival sources, Tamar Herzig traces the dramatic story of his life, half a century before ecclesiastical authorities made Jewish conversion a priority of the Catholic Church. A Convert’s Tale explores the Jewish world in which Salomone was born and raised; the glittering objects he crafted, and their status as courtly hallmarks; and Ercole’s relations with his wealthy patrons. Herzig also examines homosexuality in Renaissance Italy, the response of Jewish communities and Christian authorities to allegations of sexual crimes, and attitudes toward homosexual acts among Christians and Jews. In Salomone/Ercole’s story we see how precarious life was for converts from Judaism, and how contested was the meaning of conversion for both the apostates’ former coreligionists and those tasked with welcoming them to their new faith.

Book Pastoral Poetry   Pastoral Drama

Download or read book Pastoral Poetry Pastoral Drama written by Walter Wilson Greg and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Renaissance Woman

Download or read book Renaissance Woman written by Ramie Targoff and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Vittoria Colonna, confidante of Michelangelo, scion of one of the most powerful families of her era, and a pivotal figure in the Italian Renaissance Ramie Targoff’s Renaissance Woman tells of the most remarkable woman of the Italian Renaissance: Vittoria Colonna, Marchesa of Pescara. Vittoria has long been celebrated by scholars of Michelangelo as the artist’s best friend—the two of them exchanged beautiful letters, poems, and works of art that bear witness to their intimacy—but she also had close ties to Charles V, Pope Clement VII and Pope Paul III, Pietro Bembo, Baldassare Castiglione, Pietro Aretino, Queen Marguerite de Navarre, Reginald Pole, and Isabella d’Este, among others. Vittoria was the scion of an immensely powerful family in Rome during that city’s most explosively creative era. Art and literature flourished, but political and religious life were under terrific strain. Personally involved with nearly every major development of this period—through both her marriage and her own talents—Vittoria was not only a critical political actor and negotiator but also the first woman to publish a book of poems in Italy, an event that launched a revolution for Italian women’s writing. Vittoria was, in short, at the very heart of what we celebrate when we think about sixteenth-century Italy; through her story the Renaissance comes to life anew.

Book Movimenta O M Do Modo

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  • Author : Alan Douglas
  • Publisher : Alan Douglas
  • Release : 2011-01-04
  • ISBN : 0983180954
  • Pages : 441 pages

Download or read book Movimenta O M Do Modo written by Alan Douglas and published by Alan Douglas. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MOVIMENTA O M DO MODOA MOVIMENTA O M do MODO uma fic o do crime, criada o 21 de novembro de 2010 para finalidades do entretenimento somente. A ideia principal que o homem rico Robert Stanley est conduzido por seu "modo mau," que criam a frustra o. Trata seus membros da fam lia e amigos sem o respeito qualquer. A hist ria envolve o crime baseado em problemas da fam lia. O livro altamente - recomendado para os povos, cujo ingl?'s uma segunda l ngua. N o se recomenda para crian as na idade 18 e abaixo, por causa dos comportamentos maus e do formul rio suave da viol ncia. 2010 dos direitos reservados da fic o do crime por Alan DouglasISBN: 978 -0-9831809 -5-1

Book Invention of the Renaissance Woman

Download or read book Invention of the Renaissance Woman written by Pamela Joseph Benson and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Renaissance the nature of womankind was a major topic of debate. Numerous dialogues, defenses, paradoxes, and tributes devoted to sustaining woman's excellence were published, and in them history was rewritten to include the achievements of womankind. Often these texts demonstrate that women are capable of acting with prudence, temperance, fortitude, and justice, and thus are capable of being independent of male political and moral authority. Pamela Benson argues that the writers use literary means (genre, characterization, narrator, paradox, plot) to defeat the political challenge posed by female independence and to restrain women within a traditional role. The Invention of the Renaissance Woman is a study of the literary strategies used both to create the notion of the independent woman and to restrain her. Traditionally, the profeminism of most of these texts has not been taken seriously because their playful or extreme styles have been read as a sign that they were nothing but a game. Benson demonstrates that the flamboyant and frequently paradoxical style of these texts is the key to their successful profeminism. She defines the literary and conceptual differences between the Italian and English traditions and argues that two of the greatest literary works of the Renaissance, the Orlando furioso and The Faerie Queene, are major texts in the tradition of defense and praise of women. The Inventions of the Renaissance Women is the first substantial contextual discussion of the majority of the Italian texts and many of the English ones. Benson uses the insights of feminist theory and of cultural studies without subordinating the Renaissance texts to a modern political agenda. Among the authors discussed are Spenser, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Castiglione, Vespasiano da Bisticci, Thomas More, Thomas Elyot, Juan Luis Vives, Richard Hyrde, Jane Anger, and Henry Howard.

Book Ferrara and its province

Download or read book Ferrara and its province written by and published by Touring Editore. This book was released on 2006 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Representing the Life and Legacy of Ren  e de France

Download or read book Representing the Life and Legacy of Ren e de France written by Kelly Digby Peebles and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-23 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the life and legacy of Renée de France (1510–75), the youngest daughter of King Louis XII and Anne de Bretagne, exploring her cultural, spiritual, and political influence and her evolving roles and actions as fille de France, Duchess of Ferrara, and Dowager Duchess at Montargis. Drawing on a variety of often overlooked sources – poetry, theater, fine arts, landscape architecture, letters, and ambassadorial reports – contributions highlight Renée’s wide-ranging influence in sixteenth-century Europe, from the Italian Wars to the French Wars of Religion. These essays consider her cultural patronage and politico-religious advocacy, demonstrating that she expanded upon intellectual and moral values shared with her sister, Claude de France; her cousins, Marguerite de Navarre and Jeanne d’Albret; and her godmother and mother, Anne de France and Anne de Bretagne, thereby solidifying her place in a long line of powerful French royal women.

Book The Gendering of Melancholia

Download or read book The Gendering of Melancholia written by Juliana Schiesari and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pantheon of renowned melancholics—from Shakespeare's Hamlet to Walter Benjamin—includes no women, an absence that in Juliana Schiesari's view points less to a dearth of unhappy women in patriarchal culture than to the lack of significance accorded to women's grief. Through penetrating readings of texts from Aristotle to Kristeva, she illuminates the complex history of the symbolics of loss in Renaissance literature. The pantheon of renowned melancholics—from Shakespeare's Hamlet to Walter Benjamin—includes no women, an absence that in Juliana Schiesari's view points less to a dearth of unhappy women in patriarchal culture than to the lack of significance accorded to women's grief. Through penetrating readings of texts from Aristotle to Kristeva, she illuminates the complex history of the symbolics of loss in Renaissance literature. Schiesari first considers the development of the concept of melancholia in the writings of Freud and then surveys recent responses by such theorists as Luce Irigaray, KaJa Silverman, and Julia Kristeva. Schiesari provides fresh interpretations of works by Aristotle, Hildegard of Bingen, and Ficino and she considers women's poetry of the Italian Renaissance, key works by Tasso and Shakespeare, and the writings of Walter Benjamin and Jacques Lacan. According to Schiesari, male melancholia was celebrated during the Renaissance as a sign of inspired genius, at the same time as public rituals of mourning led by women were suppressed. The Gendering of Melancholia will be stimulating reading for scholars and students in the fields of feminist criticism, psychoanalytic and literary theory, and Renaissance studies, and for anyone interested in Western cultural history.

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Editions Bréal
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 274952069X
  • Pages : 323 pages

Download or read book written by and published by Editions Bréal. This book was released on with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Iter Italicum

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  • Author : Paul Oskar Kristeller
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 1963
  • ISBN : 9789004105928
  • Pages : 594 pages

Download or read book Iter Italicum written by Paul Oskar Kristeller and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1963 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cumulative index to the "Iter Italicum" volumes 1-6, encompassing the indexes previously published to the individual volumes. Reorganised for ease of use, this invaluable aid to users of Kristeller's monumental work will greatly facilitate access to the huge amount of information found here.

Book Reading the Body Politic

Download or read book Reading the Body Politic written by Amy K. Kaminsky and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Self Commentary in Early Modern European Literature  1400   1700

Download or read book Self Commentary in Early Modern European Literature 1400 1700 written by Francesco Venturi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates the various ways in which writers comment on, present, and defend their own works, and at the same time themselves, across early modern Europe. A multiplicity of self-commenting modes, ranging from annotations to explicatory prose to prefaces to separate critical texts and exemplifying a variety of literary genres, are subjected to analysis. Self-commentaries are more than just an external apparatus: they direct and control reception of the primary text, thus affecting notions of authorship and readership. With the writer understood as a potentially very influential and often tendentious interpreter of their own work, the essays in this collection offer new perspectives on pre-modern and modern forms of critical self-consciousness, self-representation, and self-validation. Contributors are Harriet Archer, Gilles Bertheau, Carlo Caruso, Jeroen De Keyser, Russell Ganim, Joseph Harris, Ian Johnson, Richard Maber, Martin McLaughlin, John O’Brien, Magdalena Ożarska, Federica Pich, Brian Richardson, Els Stronks, and Colin Thompson.

Book The Italian Reformation of the Sixteenth Century and the Diffusion of Renaissance Culture

Download or read book The Italian Reformation of the Sixteenth Century and the Diffusion of Renaissance Culture written by John A. Tedeschi and published by Franco Cosimo Panini. This book was released on 2000 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Story of Ferrara

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  • Author : Ella Noyes
  • Publisher : Litres
  • Release : 2021-02-09
  • ISBN : 5043289007
  • Pages : 474 pages

Download or read book The Story of Ferrara written by Ella Noyes and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: