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Author : Anonymous
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Sette quadri soggetti sacri con cornice e cristallo written by Anonymous and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anonymous
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Download or read book Tre quadri soggetti sacri con cornice dorata e uno detto rappresentante il Duomo di Firenze con cornice nera e cristallo written by Anonymous and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Angela Nuovo
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004208496
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance written by Angela Nuovo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers the first English-language survey of the book industry in Renaissance Italy. Whereas traditional accounts of the book in the Renaissance celebrate authors and literary achievement, this study examines the nuts and bolts of a rapidly expanding trade that built on existing economic practices while developing new mechanisms in response to political and religious realities. Approaching the book trade from the perspective of its publishers and booksellers, this archive-based account ranges across family ambitions and warehouse fires to publishers' petitions and convivial bookshop conversation. In the process it constructs a nuanced picture of trading networks, production, and the distribution and sale of printed books, a profitable but capricious commodity. Originally published in Italian as Il commercio librario nell’Italia del Rinascimento (Milan: Franco Angeli, 1998; second, revised ed., 2003), this present English translation has not only been updated but has also been deeply revised and augmented.
Author : Francesco Orlando
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300138210
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination written by Francesco Orlando and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated here into English for the first time is a monumental work of literary history and criticism comparable in scope and achievement to Eric Auerbach’s Mimesis. Italian critic Francesco Orlando explores Western literature’s obsession with outmoded and nonfunctional objects (ruins, obsolete machinery, broken things, trash, etc.). Combining the insights of psychoanalysis and literary-political history, Orlando traces this obsession to a turning point in history, at the end of eighteenth-century industrialization, when the functional becomes the dominant value of Western culture. Roaming through every genre and much of the history of Western literature, the author identifies distinct categories into which obsolete images can be classified and provides myriad examples. The function of literature, he concludes, is to remind us of what we have lost and what we are losing as we rush toward the future.
Author : Daniele Del Giudice
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Lines of Light written by Daniele Del Giudice and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Piper
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226922898
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Book Was There written by Andrew Piper and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Piper grew up liking books and loving computers. While occasionally burying his nose in books, he was going to computer camp, programming his Radio Shack TRS-80, and playing Pong. His eventual love of reading made him a historian of the book and a connoisseur of print, but as a card-carrying member of the first digital generation—and the father of two digital natives—he understands that we live in electronic times. Book Was There is Piper’s surprising and always entertaining essay on reading in an e-reader world. Much ink has been spilled lamenting or championing the decline of printed books, but Piper shows that the rich history of reading itself offers unexpected clues to what lies in store for books, print or digital. From medieval manuscript books to today’s playable media and interactive urban fictions, Piper explores the manifold ways that physical media have shaped how we read, while also observing his own children as they face the struggles and triumphs of learning to read. In doing so, he uncovers the intimate connections we develop with our reading materials—how we hold them, look at them, share them, play with them, and even where we read them—and shows how reading is interwoven with our experiences in life. Piper reveals that reading’s many identities, past and present, on page and on screen, are the key to helping us understand the kind of reading we care about and how new technologies will—and will not—change old habits. Contending that our experience of reading belies naive generalizations about the future of books, Book Was There is an elegantly argued and thoroughly up-to-date tribute to the endurance of books in our ever-evolving digital world.
Author : Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher : City Lights Books
ISBN 13 : 9780872863682
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (636 download)
Download or read book Dreams of Dreams and the Last Three Days of Fernando Pessoa written by Antonio Tabucchi and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Last Three Days of Fernando Pessoa finds the poet on his deathbed, where he is visited by his heteronyms, the poets he invented, whose poetry and voices invented him. Antonio Tabucchi, scholar and Italian translator of Pessoa's work, here pronounces a farewell to a man who was several of the greatest writers of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Ann Beattie
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307790754
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Chilly Scenes of Winter written by Ann Beattie and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a love-smitten Charles; his friend Sam, the Phi Beta Kappa and former coat salesman; and Charles' mother, who spends a lot of time in the bathtub feeling depressed.
Author : Alberto Manguel
Publisher : Telegram Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book With Borges written by Alberto Manguel and published by Telegram Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Buenos Aires, 1964, a blind writer approaches a sixteen-year-old bookstore clerk asking if he would be interested in a part-time job reading aloud." "The writer was Jorge Luis Borges, one of the world's finest literary minds; the boy was Alberto Manguel, who was later to become an internationally acclaimed author and bibliophile." "The young Manguel spent several years reading aloud and transcribing for the enigmatic Borges. Here he recalls this time with integrity and warmth, offering us an intimate and moving portrait of one of the great literary luminaries."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : John W. O'Malley
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674041684
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (416 download)
Download or read book Trent and All That written by John W. O'Malley and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Counter Reformation, Catholic Reformation, the Baroque Age, the Tridentine Age, the Confessional Age: why does Catholicism in the early modern era go by so many names? And what political situations, what religious and cultural prejudices in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries gave rise to this confusion? Taking up these questions, John O'Malley works out a remarkable guide to the intellectual and historical developments behind the concepts of Catholic reform, the Counter Reformation, and, in his felicitous term, Early Modern Catholicism. The result is the single best overview of scholarship on Catholicism in early modern Europe, delivered in a pithy, lucid, and entertaining style. Although its subject is fundamental to virtually all other issues relating to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe, there is no other book like this in any language. More than a historiographical review, Trent and All That makes a compelling case for subsuming the present confusion of terminology under the concept of Early Modern Catholicism. The term indicates clearly what this book so eloquently demonstrates: that Early Modern Catholicism was an aspect of early modern history, which it strongly influenced and by which it was itself in large measure determined. As a reviewer commented, O'Malley's discussion of terminology opens up a different way of conceiving of the whole history of Catholicism between the Reformation and the French Revolution.
Author : Leonardo Sciascia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sicily as Metaphor written by Leonardo Sciascia and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sicily as Metaphor, an intellectual autobiography and companion piece to Sciascia's imaginative writings, resulted from the conversations he had toward the end of the 1970s with the French journalist Marcelle Padovani, correspondent for Le Nouvel Observateur in Italy and author of a history of the Italian Communist Party.
Author : Konrad Eisenbichler
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442613033
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book The Boys of the Archangel Raphael written by Konrad Eisenbichler and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of a religious organization for youths (aged 13-14) founded in Florence in 1411 that is firmly grounded on archival and contemporary documents, and covers a variety of fields of interest.
Author : Gregory Martin
Publisher : Ed. di Storia e Letteratura
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Roma Sancta (1581) written by Gregory Martin and published by Ed. di Storia e Letteratura. This book was released on 1969 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher F. Black
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521531139
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Italian Confraternities in the Sixteenth Century written by Christopher F. Black and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-28 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confraternities were - and are - religious brotherhoods for lay people to promote their religious life in common. Though designed to prepare for the afterlife, they were fully involved in the social, political and cultural life of the community and could affect all men and women, as members or as the recipients of charity. Confraternities organised a great range of devotional, cultural and indeed artistic activities in addition to other functions such as the provision of dowries and the escort of condemned men to the scaffold. Other works have studied the local activities of specific confraternities, but this is the first to attempt a broad survey of such organisations across the breadth of early modern Italy. Christopher Black demonstrates clearly the extent, diversity and influence of confraternal behaviour, and shows how such brotherhoods adapted to the religious and social crises of the sixteenth century - thus illuminating current debates about Catholic Reform, the Counter-Reformation, poverty, philanthropy and social control.
Author : Kathleen Raine
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780389209515
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Yeats the Initiate written by Kathleen Raine and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1990 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eminent poet and scholar Kathleen Raine, leading exponent of "the learning of the imagination," brings together all her essays on Yeats (some never before printed) covering many aspects of the traditions and influences that informed his great poetry. In saluting Raine's "magnificent achievement in this rich and learned book," Professor Augustine Martin of University College Dublin states that she "irradiates [Yeats] and every corner of his work. Her unique and unanswerable contribution to Yeatsian criticism is to establish his authority as an immensely learned poet and thinker in the tradition of Plato and the Eternal Philosophy." Contains over 140 illustrations.
Author : Patricia Fortini Brown
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300102364
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Private Lives in Renaissance Venice written by Patricia Fortini Brown and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As the sixteenth century opened, members of the patriciate were increasingly withdrawing from trade, desiring to be seen as "gentlemen in fact" as well as "gentlemen in name." The author considers why this was so and explores such wide-ranging themes as attitudes toward wealth and display, the articulation of family identity, the interplay between the public and the private, and the emergence of characteristically Venetian decorative practices and styles of art and architecture. Brown focuses new light on the visual culture of Venetian women - how they lived within, furnished, and decorated their homes; what spaces were allotted to them; what their roles and domestic tasks were; how they dressed; how they raised their children; and how they entertained. Bringing together both high arts and low, the book examines all aspects of Renaissance material culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Alberto Manguel
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 9781841958217
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (582 download)
Download or read book A Reading Diary written by Alberto Manguel and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While traveling, Manguel was struck by how the novel he was reading seemed to reflect the social chaos of the world he was living in. He decided to keep a diary of these moments, reading a book a month and recording his observations, which provides an enthralling adventure in literature and life.
