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Book Synopsis Malleable Anatomies by : Lucia Dacome
Download or read book Malleable Anatomies written by Lucia Dacome and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-02 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malleable Anatomies offers an account of the early stages of the practice of anatomical modelling in mid-eighteenth-century Italy. It investigates the 'mania' for anatomical displays that swept the Italian peninsula, and traces the fashioning of anatomical models as important social, cultural, and political as well as medical tools. Over the course of the eighteenth century, anatomical specimens offered particularly accurate insights into the inner body. Being coloured, soft, malleable, and often life-size, they promised to foster anatomical knowledge for different audiences in a delightful way. But how did anatomical models and preparations inscribe and mediate bodily knowledge? How did they change the way in which anatomical knowledge was created and communicated? And how did they affect the lives of those involved in their production, display, viewing, and handling? Examining the circumstances surrounding the creation and early viewing of anatomical displays in Bologna and Naples, Malleable Anatomies addresses these questions by reconstructing how anatomical modelling developed at the intersection of medical discourse, religious ritual, antiquarian and artistic cultures, and Grand Tour display. While doing so, it investigates the development of anatomical modelling in the context of the diverse worlds of visual and material practices that characterized the representation and display of the body in mid-eighteenth-century Italy. Drawing attention to the artisanal dimension of anatomical practice, and to the role of women as both makers and users of anatomical models, it considers how anatomical specimens lay at the centre of a composite world of social interactions, which led to the fashioning of modellers as anatomical celebrities. Moreover, it examines how anatomical displays transformed the proverbially gruesome practice of anatomy into an enthralling experience that engaged audiences' senses.
Book Synopsis The Stuarts and Corsica by : Didier Ramelet Stuart
Download or read book The Stuarts and Corsica written by Didier Ramelet Stuart and published by Didier Ramelet Stuart. This book was released on 2024-06-10 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Didier Ramelet Stuart, a Corsican historian, has spent the last 28 years researching the connection between the Stuarts and the island of Corsica. Here, a particular focus is given to the many attempts to establish the last members of the House of Stuart in Corsica, from 1731 to 1774.
Download or read book Volcanic written by John Brewer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vibrant, diverse history of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples in the age of Romanticism Vesuvius is best known for its disastrous eruption of 79CE. But only after 1738, in the age of Enlightenment, did the excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii reveal its full extent. In an era of groundbreaking scientific endeavour and violent revolution, Vesuvius became a focal point of strong emotions and political aspirations, an object of geological enquiry, and a powerful symbol of the Romantic obsession with nature. John Brewer charts the changing seismic and social dynamics of the mountain, and the meanings attached by travellers to their sublime confrontation with nature. The pyrotechnics of revolution and global warfare made volcanic activity the perfect political metaphor, fuelling revolutionary enthusiasm and conservative trepidation. From Swiss mercenaries to English entrepreneurs, French geologists to local Neapolitan guides, German painters to Scottish doctors, Vesuvius bubbled and seethed not just with lava, but with people whose passions, interests, and aims were as disparate as their origins.
Book Synopsis The Natural History of a Neapolitan Miracle by : Francesco de Ceglia
Download or read book The Natural History of a Neapolitan Miracle written by Francesco de Ceglia and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Naples’s patron saint, Gennaro, the history of his blood relic, and the mystery of its periodical liquefaction. Three times a year, Neapolitans gather to witness the recurring phenomenon of the liquefaction of San Gennaro’s blood. From the seventeenth century to the present, crowds have prayed to the city’s patron for protection from fires, earthquakes, plagues, droughts, and the fury of Mt. Vesuvius. In the “miraculous” moment of transposition from solid to liquid, the faithful seek respite from the ills of the world in the saintly blood, a visual reminder of the blood of Christ spilled for their salvation. In Naples, the periodical liquefaction of San Gennaro’s blood is not officially recognized as miraculous by the Catholic Church, which now more cautiously refers to it as a prodigy. Nevertheless, for centuries, this phenomenon has been called “a miracle” in liturgical texts approved by the ecclesiastical authority and in the words of bishops, cardinals, popes, and saints. However, not everyone agreed. This volume follows the efforts of theologians, alchemists, charlatans, and scientists who, through the centuries, have tried to answer questions such as: Is the liquefaction of San Gennaro’s blood really a miracle? If not, how is it possible to explain a phenomenon that occurs only on dates liturgically relevant to the saint? The Natural History of a Neapolitan Miracle will be of great value to those interested in Religious Studies, Italian Studies, Medieval and Early Modern Studies, as well as the History of Science, Anthropology, and Ethnography.
Download or read book The Craft written by John Dickie and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insiders call it the Craft. Discover the fascinating true story of one of the most influential and misunderstood secret brotherhoods in modern society. Founded in London in 1717 as a way of binding men in fellowship, Freemasonry proved so addictive that within two decades it had spread across the globe. Masonic influence became pervasive. Under George Washington, the Craft became a creed for the new American nation. Masonic networks held the British empire together. Under Napoleon, the Craft became a tool of authoritarianism and then a cover for revolutionary conspiracy. Both the Mormon Church and the Sicilian mafia owe their origins to Freemasonry. Yet the Masons were as feared as they were influential. In the eyes of the Catholic Church, Freemasonry has always been a den of devil-worshippers. For Hitler, Mussolini and Franco, the Lodges spread the diseases of pacifism, socialism and Jewish influence, so had to be crushed. Freemasonry's story yokes together Winston Churchill and Walt Disney; Wolfgang Mozart and Shaquille O'Neal; Benjamin Franklin and Buzz Aldrin; Rudyard Kipling and 'Buffalo Bill' Cody; Duke Ellington and the Duke of Wellington. John Dickie's The Craft is an enthralling exploration of a the world's most famous and misunderstood secret brotherhood, a movement that not only helped to forge modern society, but has substantial contemporary influence, with 400,000 members in Britain, over a million in the USA, and around six million across the world.
Book Synopsis The Internationalization of Intellectual Exchange in a Globalizing Europe, 1636–1780 by : Robert Mankin
Download or read book The Internationalization of Intellectual Exchange in a Globalizing Europe, 1636–1780 written by Robert Mankin and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This books attends to what in French, since the 1980s, has been called the passeur, the figure of the intellectual, mediator, translator or journalist, who is also a socialized being in the world.The volume sets out from biographical contexts in such a way that the work as a whole is offered as a gallery of portraits leading from one kind of cultural understanding to another and then another... Geographically, the range is broadly European (England, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Poland, Spain and Switzerland) though the aim is never to display how national identities arose. Nor is this range a matter of ‘covering’ the field. The figures treated were all important in their own right, and yet too often they receive scholarly attention only in passing. The singular identity studied here, if there is one, could be Europe’s, but the theme emphasized now and then is also that of the ‘internationalization’ of intellectual activity in a very long eighteenth century. The bookend chapters involving the understanding of the Orient reinforce the internationalization and the fostering of a European identity. The volume aims less to highlight or track specific ideas transported from one cultural context to another, though there are necessarily many examples given. It proposes instead to illustrate the evolution of post-humanist cultural activity in Europe, by beginning with a series of studies in which debate arises from religious positions (not only Protestant, but Muslim, Catholic, Jesuit, Jansenist and Jewish traditions) and closing with debate become philosophical and encyclopedic. As such, the volume documents a characteristic view of the transformation of early modern intellectual activity as its center moves from religion to philosophy; and it thereby draws special attention to the essays in the middle of the volume. These deal with figures active towards the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th centuries, and their abilities, difficulties and conflicts in finding new spaces for intellectual life outside of religious and political institutions—in public discussions of philosophy, toleration, journalism, law and the curious spatialization we refer to as Anglophilia.
Book Synopsis Garibaldi and the Making of Italy by : George Macaulay Trevelyan
Download or read book Garibaldi and the Making of Italy written by George Macaulay Trevelyan and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Studies on Western Esotericism in Central and Eastern Europe by : Nemanja Radulović
Download or read book Studies on Western Esotericism in Central and Eastern Europe written by Nemanja Radulović and published by JATEPress Kiadó. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These papers examine how occult and esoteric themes appear in visual and verbal media, connecting to intellectual history, literature, the arts, present day pop culture, and religious practices. The topics range from the witchcraft motives in the love poetry of the 15th-century Humanist poet, Conrad Celtis; through the activities of Polish and Russian theosophists; Croatian, Greek, Polish painters of the spiritual; the philosophy of wine by the Hungarian esoteric philosopher Béla Hamvas; to contemporary Serbian magic and neo-shamanism. Two studies touch upon the influence of Freemasonry and the Kabbalah in Western esotericism, and, although these are not specifically Central European topics, they provide parallel perspectives to what the other papers of the collection are investigating.
Book Synopsis La Massoneria nelle Due Sicilie Vol. III by : Ruggiero Di Castiglione
Download or read book La Massoneria nelle Due Sicilie Vol. III written by Ruggiero Di Castiglione and published by Gangemi Editore Spa. This book was released on 2014-09-13T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Titoli della stessa collana: La Massoneria nelle Due Sicilie e i fratelli meridionali del '700 Vol. I 978-88-492-1029-3 La massoneria nelle due Sicilie e i fratelli meridionali del '700 Vol. II (città di Napoli) 978-88-492-1379-9 Malgrado uno splendido sole estivo, Napoli si destò, il 27 luglio 1789, sotto una cappa di piombo. Le prime sconvolgenti notizie sui moti parigini erano, infatti, pervenute all'attonita corte borbonica che, investita all'improvviso da un lontano evento, era ben consapevole delle inevitabili ripercussioni sul futuro assetto europeo. La possibilità di un imminente coinvolgimento del Regno delle Due Sicilie nel disegno rivoluzionario suscitò un vero e proprio senso di panico nel governo. Estirpare alla radice l'innesto delle nuove ideologie eversive, onde evitare il loro attecchimento all'interno della Nazione, divenne il principale obiettivo dell'autorità inquirente. Il nemico da abbattere venne, ben presto, individuato nella massoneria, i cui membri erano, da sempre, aperti alle nuove istanze riformatrici del '700. Il real editto del 3 novembre 1789 contro i liberi muratori fu la naturale conclusione di una campagna denigratoria orchestrata da una magistratura e da una polizia asservite al potere centrale, sobillate, tra l'altro, da un clero assetato di rivincita, dopo anni di politica anticuriale. Malgrado il generale risentimento per un provvedimento ingiusto, le logge regolari, in gran parte fedeli alla corona (i Nazionali di Diego Naselli dei principi di Aragona e i Provinciali di Cesare Pignatelli, duca di Rocca Mandolfa e di San Demetrio), furono immediatamente demolite dai rispettivi Gran Maestri. Anche le altre logge, le cosiddette spurie (Jerocades, principe di Sansevero, principe di Strongoli, Testaferrata), rispettarono le sovrane disposizioni. L'ordinanza di Ferdinando IV innestò, però, due gravi ed irreversibili processi. Il primo fu quello di respingere una parte dei fratelli, già leali servitori dell'ordinamento monarchico, verso posizioni d'intransigente autodifesa, spesso collimanti con lo spirito rivoluzionario e repubblicano d'oltralpe, e il secondo di generare un'incontrollabile dispersione dei singoli massoni verso forme di organizzazione più o meno clandestina (dalle accademie ai salotti culturali, dai cenacoli alle conversazioni). Solo dopo l'arrivo (16 dicembre 1792), nella rada di Napoli, della flotta francese, guidata dal fratello Latouche-Tréville, si concretizzò, dapprima nella capitale e poi in provincia, un'effettiva opposizione al regime borbonico. Alcuni giovani massoni sostituirono, sulle ceneri dell'antica istituzione latomica, la loggia con un modello associativo che, importato dalla Francia, era destinato essenzialmente alla lotta politica. Privo di formalità ritualistica e franco da dottrine di carattere iniziatico e spirituale, il club rappresentò un valido strumento cospirativo, i cui membri furono protagonisti dei futuri eventi della storia meridionale, dalla cosiddetta congiura giacobina del '94 alla Repubblica Napoletana del '99. Ineluttabile sarà l'epilogo di tale metamorfosi (o profanazione, secondo i princípi massonici): un bagno di sangue, ovvero un icastico atto di purificazione. Ruggiero di Castiglione è nato a Napoli nel 1940. Pubblicista, ha insegnato alla L.U.I.S.S. e all'Università di Studi di Cassino (Frosinone). È Autore de I segreti della magia, in collaborazione con Alberto Cesare Ambesi (1972), A tela ordita Dio mandò il filo (1975), Corpus Massonicum (1a ediz.: 1984; 2a ediz.: 1989; 3a ediz.: 2007), Alle sorgenti della Massoneria (1988); Il maestro di Cagliostro: Luigi d'Aquino (1989); Domenico Cirillo e la Massoneria di fine '700 a Napoli (1990); Una villa massonica nella Napoli del '700 (1996); La Pietatella: appunti per un percorso iniziatico-alchemico nella cappella Sansevero di Napoli (1999); e i primi due volumi de La Massoneria nelle Due Sicilie e i fratelli meridionali del '700 (1a ediz. 2006; 2a ediz.: 2008). Già direttore responsabile del periodico di cultura e arte varia L'incontro delle genti, ha collaborato con molte riviste specializzate come Arcana ed Hiram. Ha partecipato a numerosi convegni internazionali. Alcuni suoi contributi sulla Repubblica Napoletana del '99 sono stati letti a Nizza e a Parigi presso importanti centri letterari. È presidente dell'Associazione Culturale VIRBIO e della Biennale per i Giovani Artisti Campani (giunta alla 4a edizione), nonché vice-presidente nazionale della L.I.D.U. (Lega Italiana dei Diritti dell'Uomo).
Book Synopsis The Diary of Queen Maria Carolina of Naples, 1781-1785 by : Cinzia Recca
Download or read book The Diary of Queen Maria Carolina of Naples, 1781-1785 written by Cinzia Recca and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers a new portrayal of Queen Maria Carolina of Naples as a woman of power with weaknesses and ambitions, and analyzes the Queen's actions, from her political choices to her alliance and betrayals. A careful examination of the period (1781-1785) covered by the diary shows that the daily life of the Queen and offers key evidence of her political acumen and her personal relationships. Recca cross-analyses unpublished personal documents, which include the integral diary and private correspondence. The book focuses on the political influence that Queen Maria Carolina wielded beside her husband, King Ferdinand IV, and the criticism that has been made by contemporary historians and intellectuals who have often tended to discredit the sovereign for personal rather than political reasons.
Book Synopsis GARIBALDI AND THE MAKING OF ITALY: JUNE-NOVEMBER, 1860 by : GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN
Download or read book GARIBALDI AND THE MAKING OF ITALY: JUNE-NOVEMBER, 1860 written by GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Voyages and Visions written by Jaś Elsner and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A much-needed contribution to the expanding interest in the history of travel and travel writing, Voyages and Visions is the first attempt to sketch a cultural history of travel from the sixteenth century to the present day. The essays address the theme of travel as a historical, literary and imaginative process, focusing on significant episodes and encounters in world history. The contributors to this collection include historians of art and of science, anthropologists, literary critics and mainstream cultural historians. Their essays encompass a challenging range of subjects, including the explorations of South America, India and Mexico; mountaineering in the Himalayas; space travel; science fiction; and American post-war travel fiction. Voyages and Visions is truly interdisciplinary, and essential reading for anyone interested in travel writing. With essays by Kasia Boddy, Michael Bravo, Peter Burke, Melissa Calaresu, Jesus Maria Carillo Castillo, Peter Hansen, Edward James, Nigel Leask, Joan-Pau Rubies and Wes Williams.
Download or read book Painting in Stone written by Fabio Barry and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping history of premodern architecture told through the material of stone Spanning almost five millennia, Painting in Stone tells a new history of premodern architecture through the material of precious stone. Lavishly illustrated examples include the synthetic gems used to simulate Sumerian and Egyptian heavens; the marble temples and mansions of Greece and Rome; the painted palaces and polychrome marble chapels of early modern Italy; and the multimedia revival in 19th-century England. Poetry, the lens for understanding costly marbles as an artistic medium, summoned a spectrum of imaginative associations and responses, from princes and patriarchs to the populace. Three salient themes sustained this “lithic imagination”: marbles as images of their own elemental substance according to premodern concepts of matter and geology; the perceived indwelling of astral light in earthly stones; and the enduring belief that colored marbles exhibited a form of natural—or divine—painting, thanks to their vivacious veining, rainbow palette, and chance images.
Book Synopsis Da Brumaio ai cento giorni by : Antonino De Francesco
Download or read book Da Brumaio ai cento giorni written by Antonino De Francesco and published by Guerini e Associati. This book was released on 2007 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Naples in the Eighteenth Century by : Girolamo Imbruglia
Download or read book Naples in the Eighteenth Century written by Girolamo Imbruglia and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-28 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1734 the kingdom of Naples became an independent monarchy, but in 1799 a Jacobin revolution transformed it briefly into a republic. In these few but intense decades of independence all the great problems of the age of the Enlightenment became apparent: attacks on feudalism and on the power of the Catholic Church, the struggle for a modern economy, and aspirations to change the administrative machinery and the judicial system. Yet Naples was also the city visited by Winckelmann and Goethe, the city of Sir William Hamilton, of the study of Pompeii and Herculanum, and of the greatest musicians of the age. This collection of essays addresses a range of issues in the city's political and cultural history, and demonstrates the city's importance in shaping the modern, enlightened culture of Europe.
Book Synopsis The Prosciutto Sundial by : Christopher Charles Parslow
Download or read book The Prosciutto Sundial written by Christopher Charles Parslow and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Prosciutto Sundial is the first comprehensive study of the sundial in the shape of a miniature prosciutto from the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum from its rediscovery in 1755 to modern times. Drawing on contemporary correspondence and manuscripts, early philological and scientific assessments, and later published accounts, it catalogs the many attempts by scholars and lay people alike to understand how it functioned. It explains the significance of its context in the Villa and, through the results of empirical analysis using a 3D model, highlights the remarkable accuracy of this unique ancient timepiece.
Book Synopsis Annali - Sezione romanza by : Istituto universitario orientale (Naples, Italy). Sezione romanza
Download or read book Annali - Sezione romanza written by Istituto universitario orientale (Naples, Italy). Sezione romanza and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
