The Scholar in His Study: Ownership and Experience in Renaissance Italy 0300073895, 9780300073898

The Age of Criticism: The Late Renaissance in Italy 9781501743443

Sperone Speroni, Ludovico Castelvetro, Francesco Patrizi, Giacopo Mazzoni, Torquato Tasso, and Paolo Beni emerge as lite

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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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The Culture of Profession in Late Renaissance Italy 9781442681071

If the conventional view is that Italian Renaissance society generally grew more aristocratic in the later period, this

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

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

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Farnese: Pomp, Power, and Politics in Renaissance Italy 8882654265, 9788882654269

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Speaking Spirits: Ventriloquizing the Dead in Renaissance Italy 9781442623019

In Speaking Spirits, Sherry Roush presents the first systematic study of early modern Italian eidolopoeia.

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The Renaissance of Marriage in Fifteenth-Century Italy 9780674271845

Weddings in 15th-century Italian courts were grand, sumptuous affairs, often requiring guests to listen to lengthy orati

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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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