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Book Tempesta s Dream

    Book Details:
  • Author : Vincent B. LoCoco
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003-06
  • ISBN : 9780972882408
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Tempesta s Dream written by Vincent B. LoCoco and published by . This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tempesta's Dream is the story of an aspiring opera singer coming of age in Milan; a tender and moving love story; a testament to the bonds of friendship; and at its core, a tribute to the beauty, majesty and miracle of opera.

Book Napoleon s Book of Fate and Oraculum

Download or read book Napoleon s Book of Fate and Oraculum written by Health Research and published by Health Research Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Murder and All That collector s edition

Download or read book Murder and All That collector s edition written by CD Moulton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jesuit Image Theory

    Book Details:
  • Author : Walter S. Melion
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2016-06-10
  • ISBN : 9004319123
  • Pages : 517 pages

Download or read book Jesuit Image Theory written by Walter S. Melion and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jesuit investment in images, whether verbal or visual, virtual or actual, pictorial or poetic, rhetorical or exegetical, was strong and sustained, and may even be identified as one of the order’s defining characteristics. Although this interest in images has been richly documented by art historians, theatre historians, and scholars of the emblem, the question of Jesuit image theory has yet to be approached from a multi-disciplinary perspective that examines how the image was defined, conceived, produced, and interpreted within the various fields of learning cultivated by the Society: sacred oratory, pastoral instruction, scriptural exegesis, theology, collegiate pedagogy, poetry and poetics, etc. The papers published in this volume investigate the ways in which Jesuits reflected visually and verbally on the status and functions of the imago, between the foundation of the order in 1540 and its suppression in 1773. Part I examines texts that purport explicitly to theorize about the imago and to analyze its various forms and functions. Part II examines what one might call expressions of embedded image theory, that is, various instances where Jesuit authors and artists use images implicitly to explore the status and functions of such images as indices of image-making. Contributors include Wietse de Boer, James Clifton, Ralph Dekoninck, Karl Enenkel, Pierre Antoine Fabre, David Graham, Agnès Guiderdoni, Anna Knaap, Walter Melion, Jeffrey Muller, Hilmar Pabel, Aline Smeesters, Andrea Torre, and Steffen Zierholz

Book The Secret Wound

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marion Wells
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2007-01-03
  • ISBN : 9780804767446
  • Pages : 390 pages

Download or read book The Secret Wound written by Marion Wells and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-03 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new reading of early modern romance in the light of historically contemporary accounts of mind, and specifically the medical tradition of love-melancholy. The book argues that the medical profile of the melancholic lover provides an essential context for understanding the characteristic patterns of romance: narrative deferral, epistemological uncertainty, and the endless quest for a quasi-phantasmic beloved. Unlike many recent studies of romance, this book establishes a detailed historical basis for investigating the psychological structure of romance. Wells begins by tracing the development of the medical disorder first known in the Latin west as amor hereos (lovesickness) from its earliest roots in Greek and Arabic medicine to its translation into the Latin medical tradition. Drawing on this detailed historical material, the book considers three important early modern romances: Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, and Spenser's The Faerie Queene, concluding with a brief consideration of the significance of this literary and medical legacy for Romanticism. Most broadly, the interdisciplinary nature of this study allows the author to investigate the central critical problem of early modern subjectivity in substantially new ways.

Book Key Monuments Of The Italian Renaissance

Download or read book Key Monuments Of The Italian Renaissance written by Laurie Schneider Adams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized chronologically from early Renaissance precursors to the Mannerist movement, from Giotto to Titian, Key Monuments of the Italian Renaissance describes and analyzes in depth from various points of view major works and major artists, from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries. Artists included are Cimabue, Duccio, Giotto, Lorenzetti, Gh

Book Traditions for Giorgione s Tempesta

Download or read book Traditions for Giorgione s Tempesta written by Daniel Lettieri and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Vision of Nature

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Tobias
  • Publisher : Kent State University Press
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780873384834
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book A Vision of Nature written by Michael Tobias and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tobias examines the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean, the ascetics of Sinai and Tibet, and the Pure Land Buddhists. He introduces the reader to the Jains of India, whose lifestyle is one of the most ecologically balanced in all of human history. In profiling various artists of 19th-century Europe and America, Tobias discovers incisive continuities among such luminaries as British poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, Austrian impressionist Emilie Mediz-Pelikan, and American intimist painters Ralph Blakelock and George Inness.

Book Giorgione   s Ambiguity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tom Nichols
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 2020-10-17
  • ISBN : 1789142962
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book Giorgione s Ambiguity written by Tom Nichols and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2020-10-17 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Venetian painter known as Giorgione or “big George” died at a young age in the dreadful plague of 1510, possibly having painted fewer than twenty-five works. But many of these are among the most mysterious and alluring in the history of art. Paintings such as The Three Philosophers and The Tempest remain compellingly elusive, seeming to deny the viewer the possibility of interpreting their meaning. Tom Nichols argues that this visual elusiveness was essential to Giorgione’s sensual approach and that ambiguity is the defining quality of his art. Through detailed discussions of all Giorgione’s works, Nichols shows that by abandoning the more intellectual tendencies of much Renaissance art, Giorgione made the world and its meanings appear always more inscrutable.

Book Old Places Revisited

Download or read book Old Places Revisited written by Robert Bigsby and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Old Places Revisited  Or the Antiquarians Enthusiast

Download or read book Old Places Revisited Or the Antiquarians Enthusiast written by Robert Bigsby and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Forgetting

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sergio Della Sala
  • Publisher : Psychology Press
  • Release : 2010-06-10
  • ISBN : 113697086X
  • Pages : 538 pages

Download or read book Forgetting written by Sergio Della Sala and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memory and forgetting are inextricably intertwined. In order to understand how memory works we need to understand how and why we forget. The topic of forgetting is therefore hugely important, despite the fact that it has often been neglected in comparison with other features of memory. This volume addresses various aspects of forgetting, drawing from several disciplines, including experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive and clinical neuropsychology, behavioural neuroscience, neuroimaging, clinical neurology, and computational modeling. The first chapters of the book discuss the history of forgetting, its theories and accounts, the difference between short-term and long-term forgetting as well as the relevance of forgetting within each of the numerous components of memory taxonomy. The central part summarizes and discusses what we have learned about forgetting from animal work, from computational modeling, and from neuroimaging. Further chapters discuss pathological forgetting in patients with amnesia and epilepsy, as well as psychogenic forgetting. The book concludes by focusing on the difference between forgetting of autobiographical memories versus collective memory forgetting. This book is the first to address the issue of forgetting from an interdisciplinary point of view, but with a particular emphasis on psychology. The book is scientific and yet accessible in tone, and as such is suitable for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of psychology and related subjects, such as science and neuroscience.

Book Dante  An essay  To which is added a translation of De Monarchia

Download or read book Dante An essay To which is added a translation of De Monarchia written by R. W. Church and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an essay that focuses on the importance of Dante's "Divine Comedy". The essay discusses how the "Divine Comedy" is a landmark in history, as it is not just a magnificent poem but also the beginning of a language and the opening of national literature. The essay also discusses the mystery of the creative process and how Dante's work has become a permanent feature of the world's literature. The essay is followed by a translation of Dante's "De Monarchia" by F.J. Church. The "De Monarchia" is a work of political speculation that discusses the medieval idea of the Empire and should be compared with the "De Regimine Principum" by Thomas Aquinas.

Book Emotional Elicitation of Dreams

Download or read book Emotional Elicitation of Dreams written by Justin Ryan Carver, MALS and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Delisted

Book The Kansas City Public Library Quarterly

Download or read book The Kansas City Public Library Quarterly written by Kansas City Public Library (Kansas City, Mo.) and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Heian Court Poetry as World Literature

Download or read book The Heian Court Poetry as World Literature written by Edoardo Gerlini and published by Firenze University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What could be the common points between the Literature produced at the imperial court of 9th-10th century in Japan with the one composed in Italy under the rule of Frederick II of Hohenstaufen? Why the Kokinwakashū in Japan and the Sicilian School of Poetry in Italy have been acknowledged as canons for later literary traditions? How did the political power influence the production of court poetry and the role of poets in the court environment? Why two particular poetic forms like the sonnet in Europe and the waka in Japan succeeded to survive until modern times?

Book A Pianist s A   Z

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alfred Brendel
  • Publisher : Faber & Faber
  • Release : 2013-09-03
  • ISBN : 0571301851
  • Pages : 118 pages

Download or read book A Pianist s A Z written by Alfred Brendel and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This book distils what, at my advanced age, I feel able to say about music, musicians, and matters of my pianistic profession.' Ever since Alfred Brendel bid farewell to the concert stage after six decades of performing, he has been passing on his insight and experience in the form of lectures, readings and master-classes. This reader for lovers of the piano distils his musical and linguistic eloquence and vast knowledge, and will prove invaluable to anyone with an interest in the technique, history and repertoire of the piano. Erudite, witty, enlightening and deeply personal, A Pianist's A to Z is the ideal book for all piano lovers, musicians and music aficionados: rarely has the instrument been described in such an entertaining and intelligent fashion.