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Author : Areli Marina
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780271053974
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (539 download)
Download or read book The Italian Piazza Transformed written by Areli Marina and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Areli Marina
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271058919
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Italian Piazza Transformed written by Areli Marina and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2012-04-07 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the long thirteenth century, the cities of northern Italy engendered a vital and distinctive civic culture despite constant political upheaval. In The Italian Piazza Transformed, Areli Marina examines the radical transformation of Parma’s urban center in this tumultuous period by reconstructing the city’s two most significant public spaces: its cathedral and communal squares. Treating the space of these piazzas as attentively as the buildings that shape their perimeters, she documents and discusses the evolution of each site from 1196, tracing their construction by opposing political factions within the city’s ruling elite. By the early fourteenth century, Parma’s patrons and builders had imposed strict geometric order on formerly inchoate sites, achieving a formal coherence attained by few other cities. Moreover, Marina establishes that the piazzas’ orderly contours, dramatic open spaces, and monumental buildings were more than grand backdrops to civic ritual. Parma’s squares were also agents in the production of the city-state’s mechanisms of control. They deployed brick, marble, and mortar according to both ancient Roman and contemporary courtly modes to create a physical embodiment of the modern, syncretic authority of the city’s leaders. By weaving together traditional formal and iconographic approaches with newer concepts of the symbolic, social, and political meanings of urban space, Marina reframes the complex relationship between late medieval Italy’s civic culture and the carefully crafted piazzas from which it emerged.
Author : Areli Marina
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271050705
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Italian Piazza Transformed written by Areli Marina and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores the history and architecture of two city squares, constructed by rival political parties, in the Italian city of Parma from 1196 to 1300"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Dr Eamonn Canniffe
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409487768
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)
Download or read book The Politics of the Piazza written by Dr Eamonn Canniffe and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a detailed study of the principal spaces of Italian cities, this book explores the relationship between political systems and their methods of representation in architecture. Illustrated by contemporary photographs and analytical drawings, it examines significant piazzas and situates these examples in their social and political contexts, highlighting the urban evidence of shifts between autocratic and democratic forms of government through history. The ideological role of political architecture is analyzed through the work of various theorists including ancient sources, Renaissance thinkers and modern critics. The complex evolution of individual spaces over time is represented by their physical layering from ancient times to the present day. Other examples connect the development of different characteristic types of Italian urban form in chronological sequence, categorized by art historical and political periods.
Author : Thea Puppo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Italian Piazza as Room written by Thea Puppo and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Zerlang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000865703
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Writing the City Square written by Martin Zerlang and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-03 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of cities is also the history of city squares. The agora, the forum, the piazza, the plaza: All presuppose the idea of a center. It’s a material and mental phenomenon. Literature is an important part of this history, and the interplay between the square as physical space and the square as literature is the topic of this book. This is an encyclopedic book combining an overview of the history of city squares with a plethora of analytical examples of its reflection in literature: Literature uses the city square as a frame; city squares serve as frames for drama; novels and other kinds of literature comment on city squares; city squares are sources of inspiration for all sorts of literary activities. Socrates in the agora, Cicero in the Forum, Calderón in the Plaza Mayor, Corneille in the Place Royale, Richardson in Grosvenor Square, James in Washington Square, Woolf in Bloomsbury Square, Döblin and Gröschner in Alexanderplatz, Rodoreda in Diamond Square in Barcelona, DeLillo in Times Square, Al Aswany in Tahrir Square, the Maidanistas in the Maidan of Kyiv: These are just some of the examples presented and analyzed in this book. The book is of direct interest for researchers, students, and professionals such as architects and urban planners, but it is written in a way that makes it accessible for all readers with an interest in urban culture, architecture, history, literature, and cultural studies.
Author : Centro militare di studi strategici (Italy)
Publisher : Rubbettino Editore
ISBN 13 : 9788849807851
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Transforming Italy's Military for a New Era written by Centro militare di studi strategici (Italy) and published by Rubbettino Editore. This book was released on 2004 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tiffany Parks
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062644548
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (626 download)
Download or read book Midnight in the Piazza written by Tiffany Parks and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mysteries abound in this exciting race through Rome! Beatrice Archer may love history, and Rome may be chock-full of it, but that doesn’t mean she wants to move there! Too bad Beatrice’s father got a job as the head of the history department at the American Academy in Rome—now, Beatrice has no choice but to get used to the idea. When she arrives in Rome she explores her new city as much as she can, but it isn’t until she hears talk of a strange neighborhood legend that Beatrice perks up. A centuries-old unsolved mystery about the beautiful turtle fountain outside her window? Sounds like fun! Before Beatrice has a chance to explore, though, she sees a dark figure emerge from the shadows of the square in the middle of the night—and steal the famous turtle sculptures that give the fountain its name. When no one believes her story, Beatrice knows that it’s up to her to solve the crime and restore the turtles to their rightful place. With the help of her new friend Marco, she navigates a world of unscrupulous ambassadors, tricky tutors, and international art thieves to unravel one of Roman history’s greatest dramas—before another priceless work of art is stolen.
Author : Elizabeth Spencer
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617030724
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Light in the Piazza and Other Italian Tales written by Elizabeth Spencer and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Spencer is captivated by Italy. For her it has been a second home. A one-time resident who returns there, this native-born Mississippian has found Italy to be an enchanting land whose culture lends itself powerfully to her artistic vision. Some of her most acclaimed work is set there. Her American characters encounter but never quite wholly adjust to the mysteries of the Italian mores. Collected here in one volume are Spencer's six Italian tales. Their plots are so alluring and enigmatic that Boccaccio would have been charmed by their delightful ironies and their sinister contrasts of dark and light. Spencer is grounded in two bases—Italy and the American South. Her characters too, mostly southerners, rove in search of connection and fulfillment. In The Light in the Piazza (a novella which has become both Spencer's signature piece and a Hollywood film) a stranger from North Carolina, traveling with her beautiful daughter, encounters the intoxicating beauty of sunlit Florence and discovers a deep conflict in the moral dilemma it presents. “I think this work has great charm,” Spencer has said, “and it probably is the real thing, a work written under great compulsion, while I was under the spell of Italy. But it took me, all told, about a month to write.” In Knights and Dragons (another novella and a companion piece to The Light in the Piazza) an American woman in Rome and Venice struggles for release from her husband's sinister control over her. Spencer sets this tale in the cold and wintry dark and here portrays the other face of Italy. In “The Cousins,” “The Pincian Gate,” “The White Azalea,” and “The Visit,” Spencer shows the exceptional artistry that has merited acclaim for her as one of America's first-class writers of the short story. The Light in the Piazza may long be the work for which she is most recognized. In 2005, the Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater in New York City staged a musical adaptation of this novella. The production brought together the talents of Adam Guettel (music and lyrics) and Craig Lucas (book), while director Bartlett Sher made his Lincoln Center debut. That year the musical won six of the eleven Tony awards it was nominated for. It was thereafter produced on stages across the globe and eventually returned to Lincoln Center in 2016 for a reunion of its original cast as a benefit concert.
Author : Lester Little
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526101777
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Indispensable immigrants written by Lester Little and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indispensable immigrants recreates the world of peasants who streamed into the cities of late medieval and early modern northern Italy to carry crushingly heavy containers of wine. Written in an easily accessible and unassuming style, it is solidly grounded in previously untapped archival and visual sources. In this first-ever reconstruction of the forgotten metier of wine porter, topography plays a key role in forming the labour market; in the scramble to distinguish professionals from manual labourers the term artist gets divorced from lowly artisan, and wretched diet is invoked to explain why workers are so unintelligent; the wine porters make one of their own their patron saint in thirteenth-century Cremona and other interest groups scheme successfully to get him canonised in Rome five centuries later; and when enlightened despots abolish the guilds, the wine porters’ trade fades away just as the candles on their patron’s altars sputter and die out.
Author : Abigail Agresta
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501764195
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Keys to Bread and Wine written by Abigail Agresta and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did medieval people think about the environments in which they lived? In a world shaped by God, how did they treat environments marked by religious difference? The Keys to Bread and Wine explores the answers to these questions in Valencia in the later Middle Ages. When Christians conquered the city in 1238, it was already one of the richest agricultural areas in the Mediterranean thanks to a network of irrigation canals constructed under Muslim rule. Despite this constructed environment, drought, flooding, plagues, and other natural disasters continued to confront civic leaders in the later medieval period. Abigail Agresta argues that the city's Christian rulers took a technocratic approach to environmental challenges in the fourteenth century but by the mid-fifteenth century relied increasingly on religious ritual, reflecting a dramatic transformation in the city's religious identity. Using the records of Valencia's municipal council, she traces the council's efforts to expand the region's infrastructure in response to natural disasters, while simultaneously rendering the landscape within the city walls more visibly Christian. This having been achieved, Valencia's leaders began by the mid-fifteenth century to privilege rogations and other ritual responses over infrastructure projects. But these appeals to divine aid were less about desperation than confidence in the city's Christianity. Reversing traditional narratives of technological progress, The Keys to Bread and Wine shows how religious concerns shaped the governance of the environment, with far-reaching implications for the environmental and religious history of medieval Iberia.
Author : Sandra Davis Lakeman
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Natural Light and the Italian Piazza written by Sandra Davis Lakeman and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lakeman (architecture, California Polytechnic State U.) discusses design elements and the element of light in the medieval architecture of Italy and examines the relationship between space and light and the way we experience them, focusing on Siena's Piazza del Campo. Includes some 90 color photos a
Author : Cathleen A. Fleck
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004525890
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Reimagining Jerusalem’s Architectural Identities in the Later Middle Ages written by Cathleen A. Fleck and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-10-10 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores several fascinating medieval Christian and Islamic artworks that represent and reimagine Jerusalem’s architecture as religious and political instruments to express power, entice visitors, console the devoted, offer spiritual guidance, and convey the city’s mythical history.
Author : Maureen C. Miller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317144511
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Emotions, Communities, and Difference in Medieval Europe written by Maureen C. Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of eleven essays by an international group of scholars in medieval studies honors the work of Barbara H. Rosenwein, Professor emerita of History at Loyola University Chicago. Part I, “Emotions and Communities,” comprises six essays that make use of Rosenwein’s well-known and widely influential work on the history of emotions and what Rosenwein has called “emotional communities.” These essays employ a wide variety of source material such as chronicles, monastic records, painting, music theory, and religious practice to elucidate emotional commonalities among the medieval people who experienced them. The five essays in Part II, “Communities and Difference,” explore different kinds of communities and have difference as their primary theme: difference between the poor and the unfree, between power as wielded by rulers or the clergy, between the western Mediterranean region and the rest of Europe, and between a supposedly great king and lesser ones.
Author : George H. Sullivan
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0786736305
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Not Built in a Day written by George H. Sullivan and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not Built in a Day: Exploring the Architecture of Rome is a unique, unconventional guide and a deeply felt homage to Rome and its extraordinary 2,500-year history. Moving beyond the names, dates, and statistics of ordinary guidebooks, George Sullivan's eye-opening essays celebrate the special character of Rome's buildings, fountains, piazzas, streets, and ruins. From the largest landmark down to the smallest hidden gem, Not Built in a Day explores the city in comprehensive detail, offering detailed visual and historical analyses that enable readers to see and understand exactly what makes the architecture of Rome so important, influential, and fascinating. Not Built in a Day is supported by a companion website (NotBuiltInADay.com) that offers, among other features, detailed illustrative photographs for readers who want to experience the book's walking tours at home and large printable maps for readers using small electronic devices on-site in Rome.
Author : Sandro Etalle
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540266550
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Logic Based Program Synthesis and Transformation written by Sandro Etalle and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-06-24 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Logic Based Program Synthesis and Transformation, LOPSTR 2004, held in Verona, Italy in August 2004. The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully selected and revised from 23 full paper and 11 extended abstract submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on verification and analysis, theory and security, transformations, program development, termination, and program development and synthesis.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004386130
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Crusading in Art, Thought and Will written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume captures the diversity of approaches in crusade scholarship, which often cross cultures and academic disciplines. Essays by the contributors study the role of art and architecture, liturgy, legal practice, literature, and politics in the institution of crusade.
