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Author : Jordan Lancaster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Autobiography in Early Eighteenth Century Italy written by Jordan Lancaster and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paula Findlen
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804759049
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Italy’s Eighteenth Century written by Paula Findlen and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the age of the Grand Tour, foreigners flocked to Italy to gawk at its ruins and paintings, enjoy its salons and cafés, attend the opera, and revel in their own discovery of its past. But they also marveled at the people they saw, both male and female. In an era in which castrati were "rock stars," men served women as cicisbei, and dandified Englishmen became macaroni, Italy was perceived to be a place where men became women. The great publicity surrounding female poets, journalists, artists, anatomists, and scientists, and the visible roles for such women in salons, academies, and universities in many Italian cities also made visitors wonder whether women had become men. Such images, of course, were stereotypes, but they were nonetheless grounded in a reality that was unique to the Italian peninsula. This volume illuminates the social and cultural landscape of eighteenth-century Italy by exploring how questions of gender in music, art, literature, science, and medicine shaped perceptions of Italy in the age of the Grand Tour.
Author : Luca Clerici
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030420647
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Italian Victualling Systems in the Early Modern Age, 16th to 18th Century written by Luca Clerici and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illustrates the complexity and variety of victualling systems in early modern Italy. For a long time, the historiography of urban provisioning systems in late medieval and early modern times featured a conceptual opposition between victualling administration and the market. In this book, on the contrary, the term ‘victualling system’ (sistema annonario) is employed according to its historical meaning, designating an organised set of public and private channels, evolved typically in urban contexts, for the procurement and distribution of the goods essential for the daily life of common people. According to this definition, specifically, a victualling system included also the market, as one of the different channels for the procurement and distribution of goods. What characterises the Italian case in the European context are both the earliness of these institutions and the long-lasting political and economic fragmentation of the peninsula: these factors determined the great variety and complexity of the solutions adopted. In order to show these features, the analysis focuses on four central issues: the configuration of systems, institutional pragmatism and variety, articulation of circuits, and plurality of actors. The seven relevant case-studies included in this book, all based on direct archival research, cover a wide range of geographical contexts and institutional arrangements, from the North to the South of the peninsula, and include both large-sized cities (Milan and Rome), medium-sized cities (Bergamo, Vicenza, and Ferrara), and entire regions (the March of Ancona, and Sicily). This allows the reader to appreciate regional and local differences in detail, making this book of interest for academics and scholars in economic, social, and urban history.
Author : Reinhard Strohm
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Eighteenth-century Diaspora of Italian Music and Musicians written by Reinhard Strohm and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On an eighteenth-century map of European culture, Italian musicians would be found almost everywhere. Unlike in earlier ages, they now provided an intrinsic part of the international exchange: no longer exotic birds, but not yet the representatives of a single nation, they helped other Europeans to forget traditional frontiers in music. In this fascinating book, eight specialised music historians investigate several important aspects of the Italian contribution, highlighting local musical practices, the aesthetic of genres, and the larger patterns of musical cultivation and patronage.
Author : Martha Feldman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226044548
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Opera and Sovereignty written by Martha Feldman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century’s most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart. Opera and Sovereignty is the first book to address this genre as cultural history, arguing that eighteenth-century opera seria must be understood in light of the period’s social and political upheavals. Taking an anthropological approach to European music that’s as bold as it is unusual, Martha Feldman traces Italian opera’s shift from a mythical assertion of sovereignty, with its festive forms and rituals, to a dramatic vehicle that increasingly questioned absolute ideals. She situates these transformations against the backdrop of eighteenth-century Italian culture to show how opera seria both reflected and affected the struggles of rulers to maintain sovereignty in the face of a growing public sphere. In so doing, Feldman explains why the form had such great international success and how audience experiences of the period differed from ours today. Ambitiously interdisciplinary, Opera and Sovereignty will appeal not only to scholars of music and anthropology, but also to those interested in theater, dance, and the history of the Enlightenment.
Author : Giambattista Vico
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501703005
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico written by Giambattista Vico and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico is significant both as a source of insight into the influences on the eighteenth-century philosopher's intellectual development and as one of the earliest and most sophisticated examples of philosophical autobiography. Referring to himself in the third person, Vico records the course of his life and the influence that various thinkers had on the development of concepts central to his mature work. Beyond its relevance to the development of the New Science, the Autobiography is also of interest for the light it sheds on Italian culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.Still regarded by many as the best English-language translation of this classic work, the Cornell edition was widely lauded when first published in 1944. Wrote the Saturday Review of Literature: "Here was something new in the art of self-revelation. Vico wrote of his childhood, the psychological influences to which he was subjected, the social conditions under which he grew up and received an education and evolved his own way of thinking. It was so outstanding a piece of work that it was held up as a model, which it still is."
Author : Aria Zan Cabot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (969 download)
Download or read book The Making of Women's Autobiography in Eighteenth-century Italy written by Aria Zan Cabot and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study traces the development of Italian women's autobiographical writing between the late seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries, during a period of transition from a context of legal and ecclesiastical authority to one in which women voluntarily embraced or initiated autobiographical projects. In the four chapters of this dissertation, I analyze shared narrative structures, devices, sources, and themes in a selection of autobiographical narratives by devout women, noblewomen, and professional female writers in literary academies. In chapter 1, I examine seventeenth-century autobiographical narratives written under pressure from religious and legal authorities: the Vita of Capuchin nun Maria Domitilla Galluzzi (1595-1671); the autobiographical testimony of Cecilia Ferrazzi (1609-1684), tried and convicted of heresy by the Venetian Inquisition; the Historia of Camilla Faà Gonzaga (1599-1662), an educated noblewoman forced out of marriage and into a convent; and the unfinished autobiography of Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689), which illustrates the blurred boundaries between spiritual, intellectual, and courtly autobiographical traditions and the influence of new religious, philosophical, and cultural currents. Chapter 2 provides a comparative analysis of early eighteenth-century secular and spiritual forms of self-writing through the examples of the Vita of the poet Petronilla Paolini Massimi (1663-1726) and the autobiographies of Saint Veronica Giuliani (1660-1727). Chapter 3 is focused on the Mémoires of Luisa Palma Mansi (1760-1823) and the Portrait of Giuseppina di Lorena-Carignano (1753-1797), two noblewomen whose writings illustrate the transition away from the spiritual tradition and the influence of other autobiographical forms, including diaries, literary portraits, and family chronicles. Finally, chapter 4 is dedicated to two professional poets and academicians, Teresa Bandettini (1763-1837) and Angela Veronese (1778-1847), whose autobiographies were written for publication and with a self-conscious awareness of the autobiographical genre. The systematic analysis of these texts, which were written in vastly different historical, social, linguistic, and geographical contexts, is aimed at identifying recurring traits that unite Italy's spiritual and secular autobiographical traditions in unexpected and previously unexplored ways, by highlighting characteristics shared with the "major" eighteenth-century male autobiographers and by identifying some unique topoi consistently adopted by women writers as a means of asserting their agency and legitimacy.
Author : William Holmes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226349718
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (497 download)
Download or read book Opera Observed written by William Holmes and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William C. Holmes provides a rare look behind the scenes into the world of early eighteenth-century Italian opera. Based on a rich store of newly recovered documents, mainly the personal papers of Luca Casimiro degli Albizzi, this social history illuminates the complexities of staging opera in the 1720s and '30s: the role of the impresario in planning an operatic season, financial and artistic difficulties, the importance of patronage, the power of individual singers and composers, considerations of set design, and the practice of altering librettos. A member of an illustrious Florentine family, Albizzi (1664-1745) served as one of the principal impresarios of the Pergola, Florence's earliest and greatest opera theater. He also carried on an active correspondence with impresarios in other cities, freely giving his advice on various economic and artistic concerns. Holmes uses the Albizzi family archives—the most abundant and varied material yet available about an eighteenth-century impresario and his theater—to deepen our knowledge of an extraordinary but little understood period in Italian opera. This book will appeal to anyone curious about operatic history.
Author : Enrico Fubini
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226267326
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (673 download)
Download or read book Music and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Europe written by Enrico Fubini and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-08-15 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects key writings about eighteenth century music . It brings together for the first time in one place, a wide selection of essential documents not only about music theory and practice, but about the historical, philosophical, aesthetic, ideological, and literary debates which held sway during a century when musical thought and criticism gained a privileged position in the culture of Europe. Enrico Fubini offers a sampling of English, French, German, and Italian writings on topics ranging from Enlightenment rationalism and the theories of harmony to German musical culture and the polemics on J. S. Bach. Organized by topic and historical period these selections go beyond writings dealing exclusively with specific musical works to larger issues of theory and the reception of musical ideas in the culture at large. The selections are from books, journals, newspapers, pamphlets, and letters; the contributors include Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire, Grimm, Alfieri, Rameau, Quantz, Gluck, Tartini, Leopold and W. A. Mozart, and C. P .E. Bach. Many are translated here for the first time. With general and chapter introductions, restored footnotes, and other valuable annotations, and a biographical appendix, this anthology will interest music scholars, students, and teachers.
Author : Aria Zan Cabot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (969 download)
Download or read book The Making of Women's Autobiography in Eighteenth-century Italy written by Aria Zan Cabot and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study traces the development of Italian women's autobiographical writing between the late seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries, during a period of transition from a context of legal and ecclesiastical authority to one in which women voluntarily embraced or initiated autobiographical projects. In the four chapters of this dissertation, I analyze shared narrative structures, devices, sources, and themes in a selection of autobiographical narratives by devout women, noblewomen, and professional female writers in literary academies. In chapter 1, I examine seventeenth-century autobiographical narratives written under pressure from religious and legal authorities: the Vita of Capuchin nun Maria Domitilla Galluzzi (1595-1671); the autobiographical testimony of Cecilia Ferrazzi (1609-1684), tried and convicted of heresy by the Venetian Inquisition; the Historia of Camilla Faà Gonzaga (1599-1662), an educated noblewoman forced out of marriage and into a convent; and the unfinished autobiography of Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689), which illustrates the blurred boundaries between spiritual, intellectual, and courtly autobiographical traditions and the influence of new religious, philosophical, and cultural currents. Chapter 2 provides a comparative analysis of early eighteenth-century secular and spiritual forms of self-writing through the examples of the Vita of the poet Petronilla Paolini Massimi (1663-1726) and the autobiographies of Saint Veronica Giuliani (1660-1727). Chapter 3 is focused on the Mémoires of Luisa Palma Mansi (1760-1823) and the Portrait of Giuseppina di Lorena-Carignano (1753-1797), two noblewomen whose writings illustrate the transition away from the spiritual tradition and the influence of other autobiographical forms, including diaries, literary portraits, and family chronicles. Finally, chapter 4 is dedicated to two professional poets and academicians, Teresa Bandettini (1763-1837) and Angela Veronese (1778-1847), whose autobiographies were written for publication and with a self-conscious awareness of the autobiographical genre. The systematic analysis of these texts, which were written in vastly different historical, social, linguistic, and geographical contexts, is aimed at identifying recurring traits that unite Italy's spiritual and secular autobiographical traditions in unexpected and previously unexplored ways, by highlighting characteristics shared with the "major" eighteenth-century male autobiographers and by identifying some unique topoi consistently adopted by women writers as a means of asserting their agency and legitimacy.
Author : Tate Gallery
Publisher : Tate Publishing(UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Grand Tour written by Tate Gallery and published by Tate Publishing(UK). This book was released on 1996 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalogue looks at the Grand Tour, a vital aspect of European civilisation in the age of the Enlightenment, from the point of view of several countries and includes the work of foremost artists of the period.
Author : Harold Donaldson Eberlein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Practical Book of Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese Furniture written by Harold Donaldson Eberlein and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mirella Agorni
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317640624
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Translating Italy for the Eighteenth Century written by Mirella Agorni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translating Italy in the Eighteenth Century offers a historical analysis of the role played by translation in that complex redefinition of women's writing that was taking place in Britain in the second half of the eighteenth century. It investigates the ways in which women writers managed to appropriate images of Italy and adapt them to their own purposes in a period which covers the 'moral turn' in women's writing in the 1740s and foreshadows the Romantic interest in Italy at the end of the century. A brief survey of translations produced by women in the period 1730-1799 provides an overview of the genres favoured by women translators, such as the moral novel, sentimental play and a type of conduct literature of a distinctively 'proto-feminist' character. Elizabeth Carter's translation of Francesco Algarotti's II Newtonianesimo per le Dame (1739) is one of the best examples of the latter kind of texts. A close reading of the English translation indicates a 'proto-feminist' exploitation of the myth of Italian women's cultural prestige. Another genre increasingly accessible to women, namely travel writing, confirms this female interest in Italy. Female travellers who visited Italy in the second half of the century, such as Hester Piozzi, observed the state of women's education through the lenses provided by Carter. Piozzi's image of Italy, a paradoxical mixture of imagination and realistic observation, became a powerful symbolic source, which enabled the fictional image of a modern, relatively egalitarian British society to take shape.
Author : Lodovica Braida
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031038983
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Anonymity in Eighteenth-Century Italian Publishing written by Lodovica Braida and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the different forms in which authorship came to be expressed in eighteenth-century Italian publishing. It analyses both the affirmation of the “author function”, and, above all, its paradoxical opposite: the use of anonymity, a centuries-old practice present everywhere in Europe but often neglected by scholarship. The reasons why authors chose to publish their works anonymously were manifold, including prudence, fear of censorship, modesty, fear of personal criticism, or simple divertissement. In many cases, it was an ethical choice, especially for ecclesiastics. The Italian case provides a key perspective on the study of anonymity in the European context, contributing to the analysis of an overlooked topic in academic studies.
Author : Michael R Lynn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317324161
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book The Sublime Invention written by Michael R Lynn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ballooning, like the Enlightenment, was a Europe-wide movement and a massive cultural phenomenon. Lynn argues that in order to understand the importance of science during the age of the Enlightenment and Atlantic revolutions, it is crucial to explain how and why ballooning entered and stayed in the public consciousness.
Author : Reinhard Strohm
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300064544
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (645 download)
Download or read book Dramma Per Musica written by Reinhard Strohm and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Dramma per musica', the most usual term for Italian serious opera from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, was a modern, enlightened form of theater that presented a unified, artistically designed, dramatic enactment of human stories, expressed by the voice and underscored by the orchestra. This book illustrates the diversity of this baroque art form and explains how it has given us opera as we know it.
Author : Anthony R. DelDonna
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521873584
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Opera written by Anthony R. DelDonna and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect accompaniment to courses on eighteenth-century opera for both students and teachers, this Companion is a definitive reference resource.
