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Wit and Wisdom of the Italian Renaissance

Author : Charles Speroni
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520305027
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Wit and Wisdom of the Italian Renaissance written by Charles Speroni and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-03-25 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first ample collection of facetiae, or witty tales, from the Italian Renaissance to be published in English. Witty and wise anecdotes had been known to the ancient Greeks and Romans in the form of apothegms, but not until the Renaissance did the true facetia acquire an independent life and popularity, and begin to spread rapidly throughout Italy and beyond the Alps. The publication of Poggio Bracciolini's Liberfacetiarum was largely responsible for this vogue: his collection met with tremendous success and resulted in the assembly of numerous other collection of facetiae. The facetia, which has some affinities with the longer, more carefully elaborated novella, is a brief narrative, varying in length from a few lines to two or three pages, whose main purpose it to entertain an excite laughter, and often concludes with a piece of pungent repartee. Both the facetia and the novella have often been censured for licentiousness, but most of them have a healthy moral, or at least a shrewd bit of psychology to impart. Above all, the facetia, like the novella, adds a new dimension to the overall, complex picture of the Renaissance. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1964.

Wit and Wisdom of the Italian Renaissance

Author : Charles Speroni
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520310187
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Wit and Wisdom of the Italian Renaissance written by Charles Speroni and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first ample collection of facetiae, or witty tales, from the Italian Renaissance to be published in English. Witty and wise anecdotes had been known to the ancient Greeks and Romans in the form of apothegms, but not until the Renaissance did the true facetia acquire an independent life and popularity, and begin to spread rapidly throughout Italy and beyond the Alps. The publication of Poggio Bracciolini's Liberfacetiarum was largely responsible for this vogue: his collection met with tremendous success and resulted in the assembly of numerous other collection of facetiae. The facetia, which has some affinities with the longer, more carefully elaborated novella, is a brief narrative, varying in length from a few lines to two or three pages, whose main purpose it to entertain an excite laughter, and often concludes with a piece of pungent repartee. Both the facetia and the novella have often been censured for licentiousness, but most of them have a healthy moral, or at least a shrewd bit of psychology to impart. Above all, the facetia, like the novella, adds a new dimension to the overall, complex picture of the Renaissance. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1964.

The Italian Renaissance

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0791078957
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Italian Renaissance written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four new titles in the series of comprehensive critical overviews of major literary movements in Western literary history The Renaissance was a turning point in the development of civilization. The great flowering of art, architecture, politics, and especially the study of literature began in Italy the late 14th century and spread throughout Europe and the Western world.

The Italian renaissance

Author : Peter Burke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book The Italian renaissance written by Peter Burke and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Italian Renaissance

Author : Renaissance Society of America
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802077356
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book The Italian Renaissance written by Renaissance Society of America and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a broad sampling of humanist work by educators, statesmen, philosophers, churchmen and courtiers translated into English.

Byron and the Discourses of History

Author : Carla Pomarè
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317170318
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Byron and the Discourses of History written by Carla Pomarè and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her study of the relationship between Byron’s lifelong interest in historical matters and the development of history as a discipline, Carla Pomarè focuses on drama (the Venetian plays, The Deformed Transformed), verse narrative (The Siege of Corinth, Mazeppa) and dramatic monologue (The Prophecy of Dante), calling attention to their interaction with historiographical and pseudo-historiographical texts ranging from monographs to dictionaries, collections of apophthegms, autobiographies and prophecies. This variety of discourses, Pomarè suggests, not only served as a source of the historical information Byron cherished, providing the subject matter for countless episodes in his works, but also and primarily supplied him with epistemological models. From them, Byron drew such trademark textual practices as his massive use of notes and paratexts, which satisfied his ingrained need for ’authenticity’ - a sentiment expressed in his oft-quoted, ’I hate things all fiction’. As Pomarè argues, Byron’s meticulous tracing of the process that links events, documents and historical representations ultimately answers his desire to retrieve what might be lost during the transmission of historical knowledge. Thus does he betray his preoccupation with the ideological uses of history writing, projecting his own discourses of history into the present of their composition.

From Poliziano to Machiavelli

Author : Peter Godman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691656703
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book From Poliziano to Machiavelli written by Peter Godman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Godman presents the first intellectual history of Florentine humanism from the lifetime of Angelo Poliziano in the later fifteenth century to the death of Niccolo Machiavelli in 1527. Making use of unpublished and rare sources, Godman traces the development of philological and official humanism after the expulsion of the Medici in 1494 up to and beyond their restoration in 1512. He draws long overdue attention to the work of Marcello Virgilio Adriani--Poliziano's successor in his Chair at the Studio and Machiavelli's colleague at the Chancery of Florence. And he examines in depth the intellectual impact of Savonarola and the relationship between secular and religious and oral and print cultures. Godman shows a complex reaction of rivalry and antagonism in Machiavelli's approach to Marcello Virgilio, who was the leading Florentine humanist of the day. But he also demonstrates that Florentine humanists shared a common culture, marked by a preference for secular over religious themes and by constant anxiety about surviving and prospering in the city's dangerous political climate. The book concludes with an appendix, drawn from previously incaccessible archives, about the censorship of Machiavelli by the Inquisition and the Index. From Poliziano to Machiavelli adds new depth to the intellectual history of Forence during his most dynamic period in its history. Originally published in 1998. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Infinite Jest

Author : Paul Barolsky
Publisher : Columbia : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Infinite Jest written by Paul Barolsky and published by Columbia : University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

阅读经典：美国大学的人文教育

Author : 徐贲
Publisher : BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
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Download or read book 阅读经典：美国大学的人文教育 written by 徐贲 and published by BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 本书介绍了美国大学的人文教育，以作者对人文教育理念的认识、日常授课的教学经历与体会、个人学术兴趣和问题意识为出发点。全书分三部分：第一部分是一些教学实例，第二部分是作者对人文教育重要的提倡者和实践者列奥·施特劳斯的一些思考，第三部分是西方古典的当代启示。

The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance

Author : Christopher S. Celenza
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107003628
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance written by Christopher S. Celenza and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new view of Italian Renaissance intellectual life, linking philosophy and literature as expressed in both Latin and Italian.

A Concise Encyclopaedia of the Italian Renaissance

Author : John Rigby Hale
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Concise Encyclopaedia of the Italian Renaissance written by John Rigby Hale and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In some 750 alphabetical entries the internationally eminent Renaissance scholar John Hale and his team of thirty distinguished co-authors cover every aspect of history and culture. There is a wealth of entries dealing with general themes, from history to humor, patronage to prostitution, technology to town planning, as well as the important names in music, art, science, literature, scholarship, politics and religion, towns and states, wars and treaties. A subject-listing of all the entries -- biographies as well as general themes -- combines with intelligent, clear cross-referencing, and essential further reading is listed within entries. Relevant illustration, clear maps, family trees, tables of succession graphically displayed in a single time chart, and a glossary of Italian terms complete the supporting apparatus of this brilliant reference work. -- From publisher's description.

How to Inspire Outstanding Ideas

Author : TJ Xia
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480851787
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book How to Inspire Outstanding Ideas written by TJ Xia and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crafting wonderful ideas is the fi rst step on the road toward great achievementsbut how do you come up with them? Finding concrete methods for creating awesome ideas has been a daunting, long-standing questuntil now. TJ Xia has turned his expertise and passion for promoting creativity and innovation into a comprehensive book to help anyone generate beneficial new ideas more easily and efficiently. The book describes a clear set of universal approaches that will broadly stimulate your creativity, directly leading you to discover brilliant new concepts and devise astonishing new solutions. These techniques have been condensed from a decades long study analyzing several thousand real-life cases that involve inconspicuous yet exceptional ideas. Experience has shown that people who use these simple techniques derive substantial benefits almost immediately at work and in their personal lives. In these pages, youll find over two hundred fascinating examples from the study to assist you in comprehending the basic concepts more effectively. A Grand Checklist containing all of the approaches attached to the end of the book, as a toolbox, shall help any type of brainstorming sessions. These highly productive approaches can be used by people from all walks of life to gain a major boost in your ability to think innovativelyno matter who you are or what you want to accomplish.

Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature

Author : John Addington Symonds
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465602968
Total Pages : 1104 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (656 download)

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Download or read book Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature written by John Addington Symonds and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ThisÊwork on the Renaissance in Italy, of which I now give the last two volumes to the public, was designed and executed on the plan of an essay or analytical inquiry, rather than on that which is appropriate to a continuous history. Each of its four partsÑtheÊAge of the Despots, theRevival of Learning, theÊFine Arts, andÊItalian LiteratureÑstood in my mind for a section; each chapter for a paragraph; each paragraph for a sentence. At the same time, it was intended to make the first three parts subsidiary and introductory to the fourth, for which accordingly a wider space and a more minute method of treatment were reserved. The first volume was meant to explain the social and political conditions of Italy; the second to relate the exploration of the classical past which those conditions necessitated, and which determined the intellectual activity of the Italians; the third to exhibit the bias of this people toward figurative art, and briefly to touch upon its various manifestations; in order that, finally, a correct point of view might be obtained for judging of their national literature in its strength and limitations. Literature must always prove the surest guide to the investigator of a people's character at some decisiveÊepoch. To literature, therefore, I felt that the plan of my book allowed me to devote two volumes. The subject of my inquiry rendered the method I have described, not only natural but necessary. Yet there are special disadvantages, to which progressive history is not liable, in publishing a book of this sort by installments. Readers of the earlier parts cannot form a just conception of the scope and object of the whole. They cannot perceive the relation of its several sections to each other, or give the author credit for his exercise of judgment in the marshaling and development of topics. They criticise each portion independently, and desire a comprehensiveness in parts which would have been injurious to the total scheme. Furthermore, this kind of book sorely needs an Index, and its plan renders a general Index, such as will be found at the end of the last volume, more valuable than one made separately for each part. Ê

Department of State Publication

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Department of State Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

University Centers of Foreign Affairs Research: a Selective Directory

Author : United States. Department of State. Office of External Research
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book University Centers of Foreign Affairs Research: a Selective Directory written by United States. Department of State. Office of External Research and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented at the October 22, 1981 meeting of the Great Lakes Section of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, held in conjunction with the centennial of naval architecture and marine engineering at the University of Michigan.

The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes

Author : Clifton Fadiman
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0316084727
Total Pages : 1322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes written by Clifton Fadiman and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2009-10-31 with total page 1322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book compiled of anecdotes from other collections, arranged under the name of the person they're about.

101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition

Author : Ulrich Marzolph
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814347754
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book 101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition written by Ulrich Marzolph and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive exploration of the Middle Eastern roots of Western narrative tradition. Against the methodological backdrop of historical and comparative folk narrative research, 101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition surveys the history, dissemination, and characteristics of over one hundred narratives transmitted to Western tradition from or by the Middle Eastern Muslim literatures (i.e., authored written works in Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish). For a tale to be included, Ulrich Marzolph considered two criteria: that the tale originates from or at least was transmitted by a Middle Eastern source, and that it was recorded from a Western narrator's oral performance in the course of the nineteenth or twentieth century. The rationale behind these restrictive definitions is predicated on Marzolph's main concern with the long-lasting effect that some of the "Oriental" narratives exercised in Western popular tradition—those tales that have withstood the test of time. Marzolph focuses on the originally "Oriental" tales that became part and parcel of modern Western oral tradition. Since antiquity, the "Orient" constitutes the quintessential Other vis-à-vis the European cultures. While delineation against this Other served to define and reassure the Self, the "Orient" also constituted a constant source of fascination, attraction, and inspiration. Through oral retellings, numerous tales from Muslim tradition became an integral part of European oral and written tradition in the form of learned treatises, medieval sermons, late medieval fabliaux, early modern chapbooks, contemporary magazines, and more. In present times, when national narcissisms often acquire the status of strongholds delineating the Us against the Other, it is imperative to distinguish, document, visualize, and discuss the extent to which the West is not only indebted to the Muslim world but also shares common features with Muslim narrative tradition. 101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition is an important contribution to this debate and a vital work for scholars, students, and readers of folklore and fairy tales.