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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385051053
Total Pages : 542 pages
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Total Pages : 614 pages
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Download or read book Belgravia written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lucrezia Marinella
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226505502
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men written by Lucrezia Marinella and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gifted poet, a women's rights activist, and an expert on moral and natural philosophy, Lucrezia Marinella (1571-1653) was known throughout Italy as the leading female intellectual of her age. Born into a family of Venetian physicians, she was encouraged to study, and, fortunately, she did not share the fate of many of her female contemporaries, who were forced to join convents or were pressured to marry early. Marinella enjoyed a long literary career, writing mainly religious, epic, and pastoral poetry, and biographies of famous women in both verse and prose. Marinella's masterpiece, The Nobility and Excellence of Women, and the Defects and Vices of Men was first published in 1600, composed at a furious pace in answer to Giusepe Passi's diatribe about women's alleged defects. This polemic displays Marinella's vast knowledge of the Italian poetic tradition and demonstrates her ability to argue against authors of the misogynist tradition from Boccaccio to Torquato Tasso. Trying to effect real social change, Marinella argued that morally, intellectually, and in many other ways, women are superior to men.
Author : Virginia Cox
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421400324
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Prodigious Muse written by Virginia Cox and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her award-winning, critically acclaimed Women's Writing in Italy, 1400--1650, Virginia Cox chronicles the history of women writers in early modern Italy -- who they were, what they wrote, where they fit in society, and how their status changed during this period. In this book, Cox examines more closely one particular moment in this history, in many ways the most remarkable for the richness and range of women's literary output. A widespread critical notion sees Italian women's writing as a phenomenon specific to the peculiar literary environment of the mid-sixteenth century, and most scholars assume that a reactionary movement such as the Counter-Reformation was unlikely to spur its development. Cox argues otherwise, showing that women's writing flourished in the period following 1560, reaching beyond the customary "feminine" genres of lyric, poetry, and letters to experiment with pastoral drama, chivalric romance, tragedy, and epic. There were few widely practiced genres in this eclectic phase of Italian literature to which women did not turn their hand. Organized by genre, and including translations of all excerpts from primary texts, this comprehensive and engaging volume provides students and scholars with an invaluable resource as interest in these exceptional writers grows. In addition to familiar, secular works by authors such as Isabella Andreini, Moderata Fonte, and Lucrezia Marinella, Cox also discusses important writings that have largely escaped critical interest, including Fonte's and Marinella's vivid religious narratives, an unfinished Amazonian epic by Maddalena Salvetti, and the startlingly fresh autobiographical lyrics of Francesca Turina Bufalini. Juxtaposing religious and secular writings by women and tracing their relationship to the male-authored literature of the period, often surprisingly affirmative in its attitudes toward women, Cox reveals a new and provocative vision of the Italian Counter-Reformation as a period far less uniformly repressive of women than is commonly assumed. Praise for Women's Writing in Italy, 1400--1650 "Exhaustive and insightful... This is an amazing book, a major achievement in the field of women's studies." -- Renaissance Quarterly "This is a definitive study and will surely remain so for many years to come." -- Choice "Virginia Cox has written a magisterial study of the major trends in women's writing in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy... This is indeed an impressive volume and one which deserves to be read and studied. It will change the way we think about women's writing in early modern Italy." -- Modern Language Review
Author : Bengt Jangfeldt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857710680
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book Axel Munthe written by Bengt Jangfeldt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03-30 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Axel Munthe: The Road to San Michele' tells for the first time the riveting life-story of an extraordinary individual, who came to define the times he lived in. The precociously bright son of a Swedish pharmacist, Axel Munthe worked under Jean Martin Charcot, and in 1880, became the youngest doctor in French history. By the 1890s, he was world-famous for his healing powers, believed by some to be supernatural. He moved in the most colourful and exalted circles of fin de siecle Europe, counting amongst his friends Henry James, Howard Carter, Rainer Maria Rilke, Lady Ottoline Morrell and Count Zeppelin. Though physician to the Swedish court, where he became the lover of the Crown Princess Victoria, Munthe was more at home with nature than with people. He travelled through remotest Lapland, as well as across Europe, and his great love was animals, whom he went to great lengths to protect. In 1929 he published 'The Story of San Michele', an account of his life, shot through with his love for Italy and Capri, where he built a bird sanctuary and the house of his dreams, the Villa San Michele. The book became an international best seller, translated into 40 languages, and has become one of the classics of the last century. Bengt Jangfeldt is the first person to have gone through Munthe's diaries, letters and notebooks to produce this definitive account of one of 20th Century Europe's most vibrant figures. Written with the verve and exuberance of its subject, 'Axel Munthe: The Road to San Michele' evokes a lost time, a life of passions, and a man who believed in every sense in the power of dreams.
Author : George Head
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Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Rome written by George Head and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William John Knox-Little
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book St. Francis of Assisi written by William John Knox-Little and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dinah Pelerin's peaceful life in Berlin with boyfriend, Thor, is jeopardized when her Seminole mother, Swan, comes to visit carrying a headful of blackmail schemes and lies. When they result in murder, Swan is the obvious suspect and it is up to Dinah, like it or not, to get her mom out of it.
Author : Virginia Cox
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801888190
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Women's Writing in Italy, 1400–1650 written by Virginia Cox and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2008-06-16 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2009 Best Book Award, Society for the Study of Early Modern WomenWinner, 2008 PROSE Award for Best Book in Language, Literature, and Linguistics. Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers This is the first comprehensive study of the remarkably rich tradition of women’s writing that flourished in Italy between the fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Virginia Cox documents this tradition and both explains its character and scope and offers a new hypothesis on the reasons for its emergence and decline. Cox combines fresh scholarship with a revisionist argument that overturns existing historical paradigms for the chronology of early modern Italian women’s writing and questions the historiographical commonplace that the tradition was brought to an end by the Counter Reformation. Using a comparative analysis of women's activities as artists, musicians, composers, and actresses, Cox locates women's writing in its broader contexts and considers how gender reflects and reinvents conventional narratives of literary change.
Author : McLoughlin Daniel McLoughlin
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474402666
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Agamben and Radical Politics written by McLoughlin Daniel McLoughlin and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 12 essays give you new perspectives on how Agamben's work is increasingly relevant to economy and political action: the two ideas that frame the most pressing problems of global politics. New analyses of Agamben's recent work on government and his relationship to the revolutionary tradition opening up new ways of thinking about politics and critical theory in the post-financial crisis world. Contributors: Daniel McLoughlin Giorgio Agamben Jason E. Smith Jessica Whyte Justin Clemens Mathew Abbott Miguel Vatter Nicholas Heron Sergei Prozorov Simone Bignall Steven DeCaroli
Author : Maya Maskarinec
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512827029
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome written by Maya Maskarinec and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2025-03-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How elite Roman families used genealogy, architecture, and the urban fabric to appropriate the city’s saints for their own Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome explores the creative efforts of some of Rome’s most prominent noble families to weave themselves into Rome’s Christian past. Maya Maskarinec shows how, from late antiquity to early modernity, elite Roman families used genealogy, architecture, and the urban fabric to appropriate the city’s saints for their own, eventually claiming them as ancestors. Over the course of the Middle Ages, there developed a pronounced sense that churches and their saints belonged to specific regions, neighborhoods, and even families. These associations, coupled with a resurgent interest in Rome’s Christian antiquity as well as in noble lineages, enabled Roman families to “domesticate” the city’s saints and dominate the urban landscape and its politics into the early modern era. These families cultivated saintly genealogies and saintly topologies (exploiting, for example, the increasingly prolific identification of churches as the former residences of early Christian and late antique saints), cementing presumed connections between place, descent, and moral worth. Drawing from sources spanning the fourth to the late sixteenth century, Maskarinec brings into conversation saints’ lives, documentary evidence, family genealogies, monumental and domestic architecture, and medieval and early modern guidebooks, sources not often studied together. Bridging the divide between secular and sacred histories of Rome, Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome repositions these materials within a new story, of how Romans made the city’s classical and Christian past their own and thereby empowered and immortalized their families.
Author : Robert Southey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Tale of Paraguay written by Robert Southey and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shannon McHugh
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 1644531895
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (445 download)
Download or read book Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation written by Shannon McHugh and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2020-09-18 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enduring "black legend" of the Italian Counter-Reformation, which has held sway in both scholarly and popular culture, maintains that the Council of Trent ushered in a cultural dark age in Italy, snuffing out the spectacular creative production of the Renaissance. As a result, the decades following Trent have been mostly overlooked in Italian literary studies, in particular. The thirteen essays of Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation present a radical reconsideration of literary production in post-Tridentine Italy. With particular attention to the much-maligned tradition of spiritual literature, the volume’s contributors weave literary analysis together with religion, theater, art, music, science, and gender to demonstrate that the literature of this period not only merits study but is positively innovative. Contributors include such renowned critics as Virginia Cox and Amadeo Quondam, two of the leading scholars on the Italian Counter-Reformation. Distributed for UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE PRESS
Author : Robert Southey
Publisher : Georg Olms Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783487409030
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Poetical Works written by Robert Southey and published by Georg Olms Verlag. This book was released on with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dame Una (Birch) Pope-Hennessy
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Anna Van Schurman, Artist, Scholar, Saint written by Dame Una (Birch) Pope-Hennessy and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Linda Bird Francke
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0345469666
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (454 download)
Download or read book On the Road with Francis of Assisi written by Linda Bird Francke and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2006-12-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Road with Francis of Assisi offers a unique and lively travelogue of parallel journeys: that of Francis of Assisi on his way to sainthood in the thirteenth century, and that of author Linda Bird Francke, who followed his path through the beauty of central and coastal Italy–and even on to Egypt.Francke tells the compelling story of Saint Francis through the many places he visited. She and her husband, Harvey Loomis, used as their guidebooks medieval texts, including the first official biography of the saint, completed in 1229, just three years after he died. Theirs was not a spiritual journey but one based on admiration for a man whose legend continues to inspire and fascinate millions around the world. From Assisi–a small Umbrian town that now draws two million visitors a year, making it second only to Rome as an Italian pilgrimage destination–Saint Francis crisscrossed Italy for twenty years. And so too does the author travel through the “green heart” of Italy to such hill towns and cities as Siena, Bologna, Venice, Gubbio, and Rome, and to the many mountaintop Franciscan sanctuaries from La Verna and Le Celle di Cortona in Tuscany to the Rieti Valley.Along the way, Francke movingly depicts the many miracles Francis performed and draws us into the splendid beauty of the landscape that inspired the saint’s love for nature and regard for all living things. Unlike Francis, however, whose asceticism caused him to add ashes to his food to deaden its earthly pleasure, Francke and her husband indulge in the fabled Umbrian cuisine, from wild boar to the region’s famed black truffles, and the incomparable local wines.On the Road with Francis of Assisi embraces the spirit and person of its legendary subject, and invites the reader to marvel at his spiritual intensity and follow in his footsteps through the timeless beauty of Italy.
Author : Una Pope-Hennesey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Anna Van Schurman, Artist, Scholar, Saint written by Una Pope-Hennesey and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Riland
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Antichrist; Papal, Protestant, and Infidel written by John Riland and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
