Measured Words: Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy 9781487513313, 1487513313

Measured Words: Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy 9781487513306

Measured Words investigates the rich commerce between computation and writing that proliferated in fifteenth- and sixtee

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Writing History in Renaissance Italy: Leonardo Bruni and the Uses of the Past 9780674063266

Leonardo Bruni (1370–1444) is widely recognized as the most important humanist historian of the early Renaissance. But w

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Authorizing Words: Speech, Writing, and Print in the English Renaissance 9781501745744

A provocative application of contemporary literary theory to the historical analysis of texts, Authorizing Words will in

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Hollow Men : Writing, Objects, and Public Image in Renaissance Italy [1 ed.] 9780823251759, 9780823251742

This book relates developments in the visual arts and printing to humanist theories of literary and bodily imitation, br

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Writing history in Renaissance Italy: Leonardo Bruni and the uses of the past 9780674061521, 9780674063266

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Being a Jesuit in Renaissance Italy: Biographical Writing in the Early Global Age 9780674270053

Founded in 1540, the Society of Jesus was instantly popular, attracting thousands of candidates in its first century. Ca

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Wanton Words: Rhetoric and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama 9781442683228

Menon introduces rhetoric into the largely medico-juridical realm of studies on Renaissance sexuality. In doing so, she

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Emotions, Passions, and Power in Renaissance Italy 9789048524914

This volume examines, among others, the emotional language of the court, around public execution, religious practices an

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Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy 9780674242517

James Hankins challenges the view that the Renaissance was the seedbed of modern republicanism, with Machiavelli as exem

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Possible Lives: Authors and Saints in Renaissance Italy 9780231503396

The lives of saints were among the most reproduced and widely distributed literatures of medieval and early modern Europ

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