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Author : Maria Bellonci
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (56 download)
Download or read book A Prince of Mantua written by Maria Bellonci and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Valeria Finucci
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674967062
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book The Prince’s Body written by Valeria Finucci and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defining the proper female body, seeking elective surgery for beauty, enjoying lavish spa treatments, and combating impotence might seem like today’s celebrity infatuations. However, these preoccupations were very much alive in the early modern period. Valeria Finucci recounts the story of a well-known patron of arts and music in Renaissance Italy, Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga of Mantua (1562–1612), to examine the culture, fears, and captivations of his times. Using four notorious moments in Vincenzo’s life, Finucci explores changing concepts of sexuality, reproduction, beauty, and aging. The first was Vincenzo’s inability to consummate his earliest marriage and subsequent medical inquiry, which elucidates new concepts of female anatomy. Second, Vincenzo’s interactions with Bolognese doctor Gaspare Tagliacozzi, the “father of plastic surgery,” illuminate contemporary fascinations with elective procedures. Vincenzo’s use of thermal spas explores the proliferation of holistic, noninvasive therapies to manage pain, detoxify, and rehabilitate what the medicine of the time could not address. And finally, Vincenzo’s search for a cure for impotence later in life analyzes masculinity and aging. By examining letters, doctors’ advice, reports, receipts, and travelogues, together with (and against) medical, herbal, theological, even legal publications of the period, Finucci describes an early modern cultural history of the pathology of human reproduction, the physiology of aging, and the science of rejuvenation as they affected a prince with a large ego and an even larger purse. In doing so, she deftly marries salacious tales with historical analysis to tell a broader story of Italian Renaissance cultural adjustments and obsessions.
Author : Paul F. Grendler
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801897831
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The University of Mantua, the Gonzaga, and the Jesuits, 1584–1630 written by Paul F. Grendler and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-07-27 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universities were driving forces of change in late Renaissance Italy. The Gonzaga, the ruling family of Mantua, had long supported scholarship and dreamed of founding an institution of higher learning within the city. In the early seventeenth century they joined forces with the Jesuits, a powerful intellectual and religious force, to found one of the most innovative universities of the time. Paul F. Grendler provides the first book in any language about the Peaceful University of Mantua, its official name. He traces the efforts of Duke Ferdinando Gonzaga, a prince savant who debated Galileo, as he made his family’s dream a reality. Ferdinando negotiated with the Jesuits, recruited professors, and financed the school. Grendler examines the motivations of the Gonzaga and the Jesuits in the establishment of a joint civic and Jesuit university. The University of Mantua lasted only six years, lost during the brutal sack of the city by German troops in 1630. Despite its short life, the university offered original scholarship and teaching. It had the first professorship of chemistry more than 100 years before any other Italian university. The leading professor of medicine identified the symptoms of angina pectoris 140 years before an English scholar named the disease. The star law professor advanced new legal theories while secretly spying for James I of England. The Jesuits taught humanities, philosophy, and theology in ways both similar to and different from lay professors. A superlative study of education, politics, and culture in seventeenth-century Italy, this book reconsiders a period in Italy’s history often characterized as one of feckless rulers and stagnant learning. Thanks to extensive archival research and a thorough examination of the published works of the university's professors, Grendler's history tells a new story.
Author : Maria Bellonci
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Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Prince of Mantua written by Maria Bellonci and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alessandro Gonzaga-Castiglione 1.>
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Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
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Author : John Riddell
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Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The pedigree of ... the duchess of Mantua, Montferrat and Ferrara; compiled ... by J. Riddell assisted by the comte de Chambord, M. Berryer, jr., and J. Montgomery written by John Riddell and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John O'Hart
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Total Pages : 954 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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Author : Valeria Finucci
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067472545X
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)
Download or read book The Prince’s Body written by Valeria Finucci and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using four notorious moments in the life of Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga of Mantua, Valeria Finucci explores changing early modern concepts of sexuality, reproduction, beauty, and aging. She deftly marries salacious tales with historical analysis to tell a broader story of Italian Renaissance cultural adjustments and obsessions.
Author : John Ruskin
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Total Pages : 848 pages
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Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
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Author : John Ruskin
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Total Pages : 844 pages
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Author : Inger Christensen
Publisher : Vintage
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Total Pages : 138 pages
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Author : Alfred de Musset
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Total Pages : 250 pages
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Author : Giorgio Ghisi
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870993976
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)
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Author : SaraF. Matthews-Grieco
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351570463
Total Pages : 327 pages
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Download or read book "Cuckoldry, Impotence and Adultery in Europe (15th-17th century) " written by SaraF. Matthews-Grieco and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Renaissance and early modern Europe, various constellations of phenomena-ranging from sex scandals to legal debates to flurries of satirical prints-collectively demonstrate, at different times and places, an increased concern with cuckoldry, impotence and adultery. This concern emerges in unusual events (such as scatological rituals of house-scorning), appears in neglected sources (such as drawings by Swiss mercenary soldier-artists), and engages innovative areas of inquiry (such as the intersection between medical theory and Renaissance comedy). Interdisciplinary analytical tools are here deployed to scrutinize court scandals and decipher archival documents. Household recipes, popular literary works and a variety of visual media are examined in the light of contemporary sexual culture and contextualized with reference to current social and political issues. The essays in this volume reveal the central importance of sexuality and sexual metaphor for our understanding of European history, politics and culture, and emphasize the extent to which erotic presuppositions underpinned the early modern world.
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Good Press
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Total Pages : 5040 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
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Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 802686753X
Total Pages : 3340 pages
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