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Florence and Its Church in the Age of Dante

Author : George W. Dameron
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812201736
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Florence and Its Church in the Age of Dante written by George W. Dameron and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-05-27 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the early fourteenth century, the city of Florence had emerged as an economic power in Tuscany, surpassing even Siena, which had previously been the banking center of the region. In the space of fifty years, during the lifetime of Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321, Florence had transformed itself from a political and economic backwater—scarcely keeping pace with its Tuscan neighbors—to one of the richest and most influential places on the continent. While many historians have focused on the role of the city's bankers and merchants in achieving these rapid transformations, in Florence and Its Church in the Age of Dante, George W. Dameron emphasizes the place of ecclesiastical institutions, communities, and religious traditions. While by no means the only factors to explain Florentine ascension, no account of this period is complete without considering the contributions of the institutional church. In Florence, economic realities and spiritual yearnings intersected in mysterious ways. A busy grain market on a site where a church once stood, for instance, remained a sacred place where many gathered to sing and pray before a painted image of the Virgin Mary, as well as to conduct business. At the same time, religious communities contributed directly to the economic development of the diocese in the areas of food production, fiscal affairs, and urban development, while they also provided institutional leadership and spiritual guidance during a time of profound uncertainty. Addressing such issues as systems of patronage and jurisdictional rights, Dameron portrays the working of the rural and urban church in all of its complexity. Florence and Its Church in the Age of Dante fills a major gap in scholarship and will be of particular interest to medievalists, church historians, and Italianists.

Florence in the Age of Dante

Author : Paul G. Ruggiers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Florence in the Age of Dante written by Paul G. Ruggiers and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Italy in the Age of Dante and Petrarch, 1216-1380

Author : John Larner
Publisher : London ; New York : Longman
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Italy in the Age of Dante and Petrarch, 1216-1380 written by John Larner and published by London ; New York : Longman. This book was released on 1980 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

With Dante in Modern Florence

Author : Mary E. Lacy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book With Dante in Modern Florence written by Mary E. Lacy and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Approaches to Teaching Dante's Divine Comedy

Author : Christopher Kleinhenz
Publisher : Modern Language Association
ISBN 13 : 1603294287
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Teaching Dante's Divine Comedy written by Christopher Kleinhenz and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dante's Divine Comedy can compel and shock readers: it combines intense emotion and psychological insight with medieval theology and philosophy. This volume will help instructors lead their students through the many dimensions--historical, literary, religious, and ethical--that make the work so rewarding and enduringly relevant yet so difficult. Part 1, "Materials," gives instructors an overview of the important scholarship on the Divine Comedy. The essays of part 2, "Approaches," describe ways to teach the work in the light of its contemporary culture and ours. Various teaching situations (a first-year seminar, a creative writing class, high school, a prison) are considered, and the many available translations are discussed.

Dante in Context

Author : Zygmunt G. Barański
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316412113
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Dante in Context written by Zygmunt G. Barański and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past seven centuries Dante has become world renowned, with his works translated into multiple languages and read by people of all ages and cultural backgrounds. This volume brings together interdisciplinary essays by leading, international scholars to provide a comprehensive account of the historical, cultural and intellectual context in which Dante lived and worked: from the economic, social and political scene to the feel of daily life; from education and religion to the administration of justice; from medicine to philosophy and science; from classical antiquity to popular culture; and from the dramatic transformation of urban spaces to the explosion of visual arts and music. This book, while locating Dante in relation to each of these topics, offers readers a clear and reliable idea of what life was like for Dante as an outstanding poet and intellectual in the Italy of the late Middle Ages.

The Cambridge Companion to Dante

Author : Rachel Jacoff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521844304
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Dante written by Rachel Jacoff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully updated 2007 edition of this useful and accessible coursebook on Dante's works, context and reception history.

Dante's Comedy and the Ethics of Invective in Medieval Italy

Author : Nicolino Applauso
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498567797
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Dante's Comedy and the Ethics of Invective in Medieval Italy written by Nicolino Applauso and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humor and Evil proposes a new approach to invective and comic poetry in Italy during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and opens the way for an innovative understanding of Dante’s masterpiece. The Middle Ages in Italy offer a wealth of vernacular poetic invectives—polemical verses aimed at blaming specific wrongdoings of an individual, group, city or institution— that are both understudied and rarely juxtaposed. Modern criticism has generally viewed these poems as disengaged from concrete issues, and as a marginal form of recreation with little ethical value. Also, no study has yet provided a scholarly examination of the connection between this medieval invective tradition, and its elements of humor, derision, and reprehension in Dante’s Comedy. This book argues that these comic texts are rooted in and actively engaged with the social, political, and religious conflicts of their time. Political invective has a dynamic ethical orientation that is mediated by a humor that disarms excessive hostility against its individual targets, providing an opening for dialogue. While exploring medieval comic poems by Rustico Filippi (from Florence), Cecco Angiolieri (from Siena), and Folgore da San Gimignano, this study unveils new biographical data about these poets retrieved from Italian state archives (most of these data are published here in English for the very first time), and ultimately shows what the medieval invective tradition can add to our understanding of Dante’s Comedy.

The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Paradiso

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Paradiso written by Dante Alighieri and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dante and Violence

Author : Brenda Deen Schildgen
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268200661
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (682 download)

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Download or read book Dante and Violence written by Brenda Deen Schildgen and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores how Dante represents violence in the Comedy and reveals the connection between contemporary private and public violence and civic and canon law violations. Although a number of articles have addressed particular aspects of violence in discrete parts of Dante’s oeuvre, a systematic treatment of violence in the Commedia is lacking. This ambitious overview of violence in Dante’s literary works and his world examines cases of violence in the domestic, communal, and cosmic spheres while taking into account medieval legal approaches to rights and human freedom that resonate with the economy of justice developed in the Commedia. Exploring medieval concerns with violence both in the home and in just war theory, as well as the Christian theology of the Incarnation and Redemption, Brenda Deen Schildgen examines violence in connection to the natural rights theory expounded by canon lawyers beginning in the twelfth century. Partially due to the increased attention to its Greco-Roman cultural legacy, the twelfth-century Renaissance produced a number of startling intellectual developments, including the emergence of codified canon law and a renewed interest in civil law based on Justinian’s sixth-century Corpus juris civilis. Schildgen argues that, in addition to “divine justice,” Dante explores how the human system of justice, as exemplified in both canon and civil law and based on natural law and legal concepts of human freedom, was consistently violated in the society of his era. At the same time, the redemptive violence of the Crucifixion, understood by Dante as the free act of God in choosing the Incarnation and death on the cross, provides the model for self-sacrifice for the communal good. This study, primarily focused on Dante’s representation of his contemporary reality, demonstrates that the punishments and rewards in Dante’s heaven and hell, while ostensibly a staging of his vision of eternal justice, may in fact be a direct appeal to his readers to recognize the crimes that pervade their own world. Dante and Violence will have a wide readership, including students and scholars of Dante, medieval culture, violence, and peace studies.

Courtesy Lost

Author : Kristina M. Olson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442647078
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Courtesy Lost written by Kristina M. Olson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Courtesy Lost, Kristina M. Olson analyses the literary impact of the social, political, and economic transformations of the fourteenth century through an exploration of Dante's literary and political influence on Boccaccio. The book reveals how Boccaccio rewrote the past through the lens of the Commedia, torn between nostalgia for elite families in decline and the need to promote morality and magnanimity within the Florentine Republic. By examining the passages in Boccaccio's Decameron, De casibus, and Esposizioni in which the author rewrites moments in Florentine and Italian history that had also appeared in Dante's Commedia, Olson illuminates the ways in which Boccaccio expressed his deep ambivalence towards the political and social changes of his era. She illustrates this through an analysis of Dante's and Boccaccio's treatments of the idea of courtesy, or cortesia, in an era when the chivalry of the declining aristocracy was being supplanted by the civility of the rising merchant classes.

About Dante and His "beloved Florence"

Author : Frances Fenton Sanborn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book About Dante and His "beloved Florence" written by Frances Fenton Sanborn and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cambridge Companion to Dante's ‘Commedia'

Author : Zygmunt G. Barański
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108421296
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Dante's ‘Commedia' written by Zygmunt G. Barański and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accessible and informative account of Dante's great Commedia: its purpose, themes and styles, and its reception over the centuries.

The Makers of Florence

Author : Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Makers of Florence written by Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dante’s Bones

Author : Guy P. Raffa
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674980832
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Dante’s Bones written by Guy P. Raffa and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly detailed graveyard history of the Florentine poet whose dead body shaped Italy from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the Risorgimento, World War I, and Mussolini’s fascist dictatorship. Dante, whose Divine Comedy gave the world its most vividly imagined story of the afterlife, endured an extraordinary afterlife of his own. Exiled in death as in life, the Florentine poet has hardly rested in peace over the centuries. Like a saint’s relics, his bones have been stolen, recovered, reburied, exhumed, examined, and, above all, worshiped. Actors in this graveyard history range from Lorenzo de’ Medici, Michelangelo, and Pope Leo X to the Franciscan friar who hid the bones, the stone mason who accidentally discovered them, and the opportunistic sculptor who accomplished what princes, popes, and politicians could not: delivering to Florence a precious relic of the native son it had banished. In Dante’s Bones, Guy Raffa narrates for the first time the complete course of the poet’s hereafter, from his death and burial in Ravenna in 1321 to a computer-generated reconstruction of his face in 2006. Dante’s posthumous adventures are inextricably tied to major historical events in Italy and its relationship to the wider world. Dante grew in stature as the contested portion of his body diminished in size from skeleton to bones, fragments, and finally dust: During the Renaissance, a political and literary hero in Florence; in the nineteenth century, the ancestral father and prophet of Italy; a nationalist symbol under fascism and amid two world wars; and finally the global icon we know today.

"Gendered Perceptions of Florentine Last Supper Frescoes, c. 1350?490 "

Author : Diana Hiller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351565834
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book "Gendered Perceptions of Florentine Last Supper Frescoes, c. 1350?490 " written by Diana Hiller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the large number of monumental Last Supper frescoes which adorn refectories in Quattrocento Florence, until now no monograph has appeared in English on the Florentine Last Supper frescoes, nor has any study examined the perceptions of the original viewers. This study examines the rarely considered effect of gender on the profoundly contextualized perceptions of the male and female religious who viewed the Florentine Last Supper images in surprisingly different physical and cultural refectory environments. In addition to offering detailed visual analyses, the author draws on a broad spectrum of published and unpublished primary materials, including monastic rules, devotional tracts and reading materials, the constitutions and ordinazioni for individual houses, inventories from male and female communities and the Convent Suppression documents of the Archivio di Stato in Florence. By examining the original viewers? attitudes to images, their educational status, acculturated pieties, affective responses, levels of community, degrees of reclusion, and even the types of food eaten in the refectories, Hiller argues that the perceptions of these viewers of the Last Supper frescoes were intrinsically gendered.

Gendered Perceptions of Florentine Last Supper Frescoes, c. 1350–1490

Author : Dr Diana Hiller
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781409462064
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Gendered Perceptions of Florentine Last Supper Frescoes, c. 1350–1490 written by Dr Diana Hiller and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-02-26 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first monograph to appear in English on the Last Supper frescoes in Quattrocento Florence, this study examines the effect of gender on the contextualized perceptions of the male and female religious who viewed the Florentine Last Supper images. Using archival, literary and cultural sources, and by examining a wide range of contexts, Diana Hiller argues that the religious viewers’ perceptions of the refectory frescoes were gendered.