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This cluster of papers encompasses a wide range of interdisciplinary studies focused on the Renaissance period, including literature, art, history, gender, culture, religion, philosophy, science, and society. The topics covered include the works of prominent figures such as Marguerite de Navarre, Montaigne, and Rabelais, as well as broader themes related to the intellectual and cultural developments of the era.

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Renaissance; Literature; Art; History; Gender; Culture; Religion; Philosophy; Science; Society

:Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue: From the Art of Discourse to the Art of Reason

2006-09-01

Melissa Caldwell

Renaissance logician, philosopher, humanist, and teacher, Peter Ramus (1515-72) is best known for his attack on Aristotelian logic, his radical pedagogical theories, and his new interpretation for the canon of … Renaissance logician, philosopher, humanist, and teacher, Peter Ramus (1515-72) is best known for his attack on Aristotelian logic, his radical pedagogical theories, and his new interpretation for the canon of rhetoric. His work, published in Latin and translated into many languages, has influenced the study of Renaissance literature, rhetoric, education, logic, and-more recently-media studies. Considered the most important work of Walter Ong's career, Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue is an elegant review of the history of Ramist scholarship and Ramus's quarrels with Aristotle. A key influence on Marshall McLuhan, with whom Ong enjoys the status of honorary guru among technophiles, this challenging study remains the most detailed account of Ramus's method ever published. Out of print for more than a decade, this book-with a new foreword by Adrian Johns-is a canonical text for enthusiasts of media, Renaissance literature, and intellectual history.

:The Order of Books: Readers, Authors, and Libraries in Europe between the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Centuries

1996-06-01

Eric Reiter

A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford

1897-12-18

Bodleian Library , Falconer Madan

Rabelais and his world

2020-09-04

Mikhail Bakhtin , H. Iswolsky

Abuse with uncrowning, as truth about old authority, about the dying world, is an organic part of Rabelais' system of images. It is combined with carnivalesque thrashings, with change of … Abuse with uncrowning, as truth about old authority, about the dying world, is an organic part of Rabelais' system of images. It is combined with carnivalesque thrashings, with change of costume and travesty. Rabelais drew these images from the living popular-festive tradition of his time, but he was also well versed in the antique scholarly tradition of the Saturnalia, with its own rituals of travesties, uncrownings, and thrashings. Finally, the carnivalesque character appeared on private family occasions, christenings and memorial services, as well as on agricultural feasts, the harvest of grapes (vendage) and the slaughter of cattle, as described by Rabelais. In the time of Rabelais folk merriment had not as yet been concentrated in carnival season, in any of the towns of France. Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras) was but one of many occasions for folk merriment, although an important one.

Medievalia et Humanistica

1975-01-01

Andrew Wawn , Paul M. Clogan

Editorial Note Manuscript Submission Guidelines Articles for Future Volumes India Perceived through the Eyes of Sixteenth-Century Readers: Ludovico de Varthema's Bestseller on the Early Modern Book Markets-A Narrative Landmark of … Editorial Note Manuscript Submission Guidelines Articles for Future Volumes India Perceived through the Eyes of Sixteenth-Century Readers: Ludovico de Varthema's Bestseller on the Early Modern Book Markets-A Narrative Landmark of the Emerging Positive Evaluation of curiositas (Together with a Study of Balthasar Sprenger's Travelogue on India) Albrecht Classen The Image of Judaism in Nicholas of Cusa's Writings Gorge K. Hasselhoff Some Remarks on the Hymn to Light of Dracontius (Laudes Dei 1,115-28) Lorenzo Nosarti Even Children and the Uneducated Know Them: The Medieval Trojan Legends in Dante's Commedia Valentina Prosperi The Art of Clerkly Love: Drouart la Vache Translates Andreas Capellanus Lucas Wood Review Notices Burns, E. Jane, and McCracken, Peggy, eds., From Beasts to Souls: Gender and Embodiment in Medieval Europe (Luuk Houwen) F errer, Vicent, Quaestio de Unitate Universalis. (Ma'amar nikhbad ba-kolel). Latin Text and Medieval Hebrew Version with Catalan and English Translations. Edited by Alexander Fidora and Mauro Zonta in collaboration with Josep Batalla and Robert D. Hughes (Ryan Szpiech) Fuchs, Franz, ed., Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften in der Zeit von Philipp Melanchthon: Akten des gemeinsam mit dem Cauchy-Forum-Nurnberg e.V. am 12./13. November 2010 veranstalteten Symposions in Nurnberg (Reinhold F. Glei) Gluck, Helmut, Mark Haberlein, and Konrad Schroder, Mehrsprachigkeit in der fruhen Neuzeit. Die Reichsstadte Augsburg und Nurnberg vom 15. bis ins fruhe 19. Jahrhundert. In collaboration with Magdalena Bayreuther, Amelie Ellinger, Nadine Hecht, Johannes Staudenmaier, and Judith Walter (Niklas Holzberg) Kent, Francis W. (+), Princely Citizen: Lorenzo de' Medici and Renaissance Florence. Edited by Carolyn James (Christoph Pieper) Marenbon, John, Abelard in Four Dimensions: A Twelfth-Century Philosopher in His Context and Ours (Knut Martin Stunkel) Santing, Catrien, Barbara Baert, and Anita Traninger, eds., Disembodied Heads in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (Maik Goth) Schulte, Jorg, Jan Kochanowski und die europaische Renaissance, Acht Studien (Matylda Obryk)

Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts

1994-07-01

Pauline Croft , Mary Hobbs

The Fortunes of the Courtier: The European Reception of Castiglione's Cortegiano.

1997-10-01

Lauro Martines , Peter Burke

List of Plates. Preface and Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. 1. Tradition and Reception. 2. The Courtier in its Time. 3. The Courtier in Italy. 4. The Courtier Translated. 5. The Courtier Imitated. … List of Plates. Preface and Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. 1. Tradition and Reception. 2. The Courtier in its Time. 3. The Courtier in Italy. 4. The Courtier Translated. 5. The Courtier Imitated. 6. The Courtier Criticized. 7. The Courtier Revived. 8. The Courtier in European Culture. Appendix 1 Editions of the Courtier, 1528--1850. Appendix 2 Readers of the Courtier before 1700. Bibliography. Index.

The Elizabethan World Picture

2017-07-28

Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall. Tillyard

The Elizabethans took from the Middle Ages the modified view of the universe which, Platonic and biblical in origin, radically differed from our own. For them all creation was ranged … The Elizabethans took from the Middle Ages the modified view of the universe which, Platonic and biblical in origin, radically differed from our own. For them all creation was ranged in an unalterable order from the angels down to man - for whom the world existed - and thence to the beasts and plants. In this short study Dr Tillyard not only elucidates such fairly familiar - though often mystifying - concepts as the four elements, the celestial harmony of 'nine enfolded Sphears', or macrocosm and microcosm; he also shows how this world picture was variously regarded as a chain of being, a network of correspondences, and a cosmic dance. Such concepts were commonplace to the Elizabethans. By expounding them the author has rendered plain, and not merely picturesque, the literature and thinking of an age.

The Emergence of Prose: An Essay in Prosaics

1991-01-01

Alexandre Leupin , Jeffrey Kittay , Wlad Godzich

Well-Weighed Syllables: Elizabethan Verse in Classical Metres

1979-04-01

Edward Weismiller , Derek Attridge

Part I. The Elizabethan understanding of Latin metre: 1. Problems of Latin prosody 2. The Elizabethan pronunciation of Latin 3. The Elizabethan reading of Latin verse 4. Latin prosody in … Part I. The Elizabethan understanding of Latin metre: 1. Problems of Latin prosody 2. The Elizabethan pronunciation of Latin 3. The Elizabethan reading of Latin verse 4. Latin prosody in the Elizabethan grammar school 5. Vowel-length, quantity and accent 6. Continental discussions of Latin quantity Part II. English Verse and classical metre: 7. Attitudes towards accentual verse 8. The quantitative movement - causes 9. The quantitative movement - magnitude 10. The quantitative movement - characteristics Part III. Quantative poets and theorists: 11. Uncompromising imitation - Richard Stanyhurst 12. Scholarship and sensitivity - Sir Philip Sidney 13. 'Our new famous enterprise' - Spenser, Harvey and Fraunce 14. Four approaches to quantitative verse 15. Theory and compromise - Puttenham and Campion.

Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature

1970-01-01

J. P. Elder , L. D. Reynolds , N. G. Wilson

Part 1 Antiquity: ancient books the library of the museum and Hellenistic scholarship other Hellenistic work books and scholarship in the Roman Republic developments under the early empire archaism in … Part 1 Antiquity: ancient books the library of the museum and Hellenistic scholarship other Hellenistic work books and scholarship in the Roman Republic developments under the early empire archaism in the second century the compendium and the commentary from roll to codex paganism and Christianity in the 4th century the subscriptions. Part 2 The Greek east: scholarship and literature under the Roman Empire the Christian church and classical studies the early Byzantine period Greek texts in the Orient the Renaissance of the 9th century the later Byzantine period. Part 3 The Latin west: the dark ages Ireland and England the Anglo-Saxon missionaries insular influence on classical texts the Carolingian revival the development of Caroline miniscule Carolingian libraries and the Latin classics Carolingian scholarship the Carolingian twilight the resurgence of Monte Cassino the 12th-century Renaissance the scholastic age Greek in the west in the middle ages. Part 4 The renaissance: humanism the first humanists the consolidation of humanism - Petrarch and his generation Coluccio Salutati (1331-1406) the great age of discovery - Poggio (1380-1459) Latin scholarship in the 15th century - Valla and Politian Greek studies - diplomats, refugees and book collectors Greek scholarship in the 15th century - Bessarion and Politian the first printed Greek texts - Aldus Manutius and Marcus Musurus Erasmus (1469-1536). Part 5 Some aspects of scholarship since the Renaissance: the Counter-Reformation - the high Renaissance in Italy the beginnings of humanism and scholarship in France the Netherlands in the 16th and 17th centuries Richard Bentley (1662-1742) - classical and theological studies the origins of paleography discoveries of texts since the Renaissance - palimpsests, papyri, other manuscript discoveries, epigraphic texts epilogue. Part 6 Textual criticism: the development of the theory of textual criticism the stemmatic theory of recension limitations of the stemmatic method age and merit in individual manuscripts indirect tradition some other basic principles corruptions fluid forms of transmission - technical and popular literature conventions in the apparatus criticus conclusion.

The Currency of Eros. Women's Love Lyric in Europe 1540-1620

1991-01-01

Fiora A. Bassanese , Ann Rosalind Jones

Foreword by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar Acknowledgments Introduction: Imitation, Negotiation, Appropriation One The Mirror, the Distaff, the Pen: The Ideological Climate of WomenOs Love Poetry Two Writing to … Foreword by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar Acknowledgments Introduction: Imitation, Negotiation, Appropriation One The Mirror, the Distaff, the Pen: The Ideological Climate of WomenOs Love Poetry Two Writing to Live: Pedagogical Poetics in Isabella Whitney and Catherine des Roches Three The Poetics of Group Identity: Self-Commemoration through Dialogue in Pernette du Guillet and Tullia dOAragona Four Feminine Pastoral as Heroic Martyrdom: Gaspara Stampa and Mary Wroth Five Eros Equalized: Literary Cross-Dressing and the Defense of Women in Louise Labe and Veronica Franco Notes Bibliography Index

Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism

2002-07-01

Jeremy Tambling , Steven Connor

PART I: POWERS 1. What I Say Goes PART II: PROPHECIES 2. Earth, Breath, Frenzy: The Delphic Oracle 3. Origen, Eustathius, and The Witch of Endor PART III: POSSESSIONS 4. … PART I: POWERS 1. What I Say Goes PART II: PROPHECIES 2. Earth, Breath, Frenzy: The Delphic Oracle 3. Origen, Eustathius, and The Witch of Endor PART III: POSSESSIONS 4. Hoc Est Corpus 5. The Exorcism of John Darrell 6. O, that Oh is the Devill: Glover and Harsnett PART IV: PRODIGIES 7. Miracles and the Encyclopedie 8. Speaking Parts: Diderot and Les Bijoux indiscrets 9. The Abbe and the Ventriloque 10. The Dictate of Phrenzy: Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland PART V: POLYPHONICS 11. Ubiquitarical 12. At Home and Abroad: Monsieur Alexandre and Mr Matthews 13. Phenomena in the Philosophy of Sound: Mr Love 14. Writing the Voice PART VI: PROSTHETICS 15. Vocal Reinforcement 16. Talking Heads, Automaton Ears 17. A Gramophone in Every Grave PART VII: NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT 18. No Time Like the Present Works Cited Index

Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England

2009-07-16

Elizabeth Evenden

When I agreed to write this review, the review editor wryly stated that he would send me a copy for review, so long as I didn’t write in the margins. … When I agreed to write this review, the review editor wryly stated that he would send me a copy for review, so long as I didn’t write in the margins. Although in jest, this exchange goes some way to identifying one of the central points of Sherman's study: how Renaissance readers perceived the pages of books in a very different way from how we look at them today. In the modern era we have been taught for generations not to write on borrowed books. We are often loath to write on those we own, since we have an acute awareness of the high cost of books (academic books in particular), which often leaves us reluctant to write in them; we fear any internal markings will devalue the book. In part, it is the potential for the book to be sold on, after we no longer need it, that makes us want to leave the pages pristine; it is worth more on the second-hand market if we have left well alone. Similarly, we tend to feel that the book just looks better without a wealth of notes inside; we respect its white spaces.

Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe

2017-03-02

Peter Burke

Part 1 In search of popular culture: the discovery of the people unity and variety in popular culture an elusive quarry - the mediators, oblique approaches to popular culture. Part … Part 1 In search of popular culture: the discovery of the people unity and variety in popular culture an elusive quarry - the mediators, oblique approaches to popular culture. Part 2 Structures of popular culture: the transmission of popular culture - the professionals, the amateurs, settings, tradition and creativity traditional forms - genres, themes and variations, the process of composition heroes, villains and fools - prototypes and transformations, popular attitudes and values the world of carnival - myths and rituals, carnival, the world upside down, the carnivalesque, social control or social protest? Part 3 Changes in popular culture: the triumph of Lent - the reform of popular culture - the first phase of reform 1500-1650, the culture of the godly, the second phase of reform 1650-1800 popular culture and social change - the commercial revolution, the uses of literacy, politics and the people, the withdrawal of the upper classes from withdrawal to discovery. Appendices: the discovery of the people - select studies and anthologies select publications illustrating the reform of popular culture, 1495-1664.

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The self-made map: cartographic writing in early modern France

1997-05-01

Tom Conley

Contents List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction Cartographic Writing-The Relation to the Unknown-The Perspectival Object-Pictograms-The Signature-Approaches 1. Franco-Burgundian Backgrounds Some Figural Relations with Space: A French Model: Jean Fouquet-Wit … Contents List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction Cartographic Writing-The Relation to the Unknown-The Perspectival Object-Pictograms-The Signature-Approaches 1. Franco-Burgundian Backgrounds Some Figural Relations with Space: A French Model: Jean Fouquet-Wit and Rivalry: The Portrait of Guillaume Juvenal des Oursins-A Nascent Grid of Narrative-A Poetic map: Jean Molinet 2. The Letter and the Grid: Geoffroy Tory Three Allegories-A Fourth Allegory: Architecture, Letter, and Nation- Betrayals of Diagram and Text-A Well-Joined Marquetry-A Cartography of the Letter 3. Oronce Fine: A Well-Rounded Signature A Craftsman's Adolescence-The Fine Animal: A Face and a Strategy (Voyage a la terre sainte)-From Signature to Self-Portrait-From Portrait to Self-Made Identity: The Protomathesis-The Heart of the World: The cordiform Maps-Gallia and the Topographical Map in Le sphere du monde-The Analogical Style 4. Words a la Carte: A Rabelaisian Map Beginnings-Tourism-The Itinerary: Notable Places-Encounters of the First Kind-Reprieve: Spaces to Listen-A City Named Parr rys-Words a la Carte-Rabelais and the Cordiform Text 5. An Insular Moment: From Cosmography to Ethnography A Topography of the Face-The Isolario and Cosmography-Andre Thevet's Staging of Alterity-Some Fortunes of La cosmographie universelle and Its Ethnography 6. An Atlas Evolves: Maurice Bouguereau, Le theater francoys The Idea of a National Atlas-Iconography: The Title Page and Opening Pages-Bouguereau's Maps-Maps and Texts Compared: Nicolai and Symeone-An Atlas of Rivers: Chorography, Potamography, and the Image of a Nation-The Signature: Bouguereau's Vanishing Point 7. Montaigne: A Political Geography of the Self A Book Engineered-The Book as a Cardinal Form-The Politics of Des cannibals-Fumee's Gomara and Des coches 8. La Poeliniere and Descartes: Signatures in Perspective The Map of Les trois mondes-The Cartesian Map-The Perspectival Signature: Between Center and Margin-A Saturation of Names 9. Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index

The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing, 1450-1800

1994-01-01

Paul Saenger , Lucien Fëbvre , Henri-Jean Martin

Books, and the printed word more generally, are aspects of modern life that are all too often taken for granted. Yet the emergence of the book was a process of … Books, and the printed word more generally, are aspects of modern life that are all too often taken for granted. Yet the emergence of the book was a process of immense historical importance and heralded the dawning of the epoch of modernity. In this much praised history of that process, Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin mesh together economic and technological history, sociology and anthropology, as well as the study of modes of consciousness, to root the development of the printed word in the changing social relations and ideological struggles of Western Europe.

The Ancient Romances

1967-12-31

Ben Edwin Perry

Woman Triumphant; Feminism in French Literature 1610-1652

1979-01-01

Edward Kearns , Ian Maclean

The Grotesque in Art and Literature

1965-02-01

Lewis A. Lawson , Wolfgang Kayser , Ulrich Weisstein

Renaissance Thought and Its Sources

1980-01-01

Ronnie H. Terpening , Paul Oskar Kristeller , Michael Mooney

Editor's Preface Introduction Part One: Renaissance Thought and Classical Antiquity Introduction 1. The Humanist Movement 2. The Aristotelian Tradition 3. Renaissance Platonism 4. Paganism and Christianity Part Two: Renaissance Thought … Editor's Preface Introduction Part One: Renaissance Thought and Classical Antiquity Introduction 1. The Humanist Movement 2. The Aristotelian Tradition 3. Renaissance Platonism 4. Paganism and Christianity Part Two: Renaissance Thought and the Middle Ages 5. Humanism and Scholasticism in the Italian Renaissance 6. Renaissance Philosophy and the Medieval Tradition Part Three: Renaissance Thought and Byzantine Learning 7. Italian Humanism and Byzantium 8. Byzantine and Western Platonism in the Fifteenth Century Part Four: Renaissance Concepts of Man Introduction 9. The Dignity of Man 10. The Immortality of the Soul 11. The Unity of Truth Part Five: Philosophy and Rhetoric From Antiquity to the Renaissance Introduction 12. Classical Antiquity 13. The Middle Ages 14. The Renaissance Notes Index

Coleridge and the Pantheist Tradition

1970-01-01

René Wellek , Thomas McFarland

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Christine de Pizan: Her Life and Works

1985-01-01

Katharina M. Wilson , Charity Cannon Willard

The Light in Troy: Imitation and Discovery in Renaissance Poetry

1985-01-01

Daniel Javitch , Thomas M. Greene

:Printed Commonplace Books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought

1998-03-01

Elizabeth A. R. Brown

This is the first comprehensive study of the Renaissance commonplace-book. Commonplace-books were the information-organizers of Early Modern Europe, notebooks of quotations methodically arranged for easy retrieval. From their first introduction … This is the first comprehensive study of the Renaissance commonplace-book. Commonplace-books were the information-organizers of Early Modern Europe, notebooks of quotations methodically arranged for easy retrieval. From their first introduction to the rudiments of Latin to the specialized studies of leisure reading of their later years, the pupils of humanist schools were trained to use commonplace-books, which formed an immensely important element of Renaissance education. The common-place book mapped and resourced Renaissance culture's moral thinking, its accepted strategies of argumentation, its rhetoric, and its deployment of knowledge. In this ground-breaking study Ann Moss investigates the commonplace-book's medieval antecedents, its methodology and use as promulgated by its humanist advocates, its varieties as exemplified in its printed manifestations, and the reasons for its gradual decline in the seventeenth century. The book covers the Latin culture of Early Modern Europe and its vernacular counterparts and continuations, particularly in France. Printed Commonplace-Books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought is much more than an account of humanist classroom practice: it is a major work of cultural history.

Language and Meaning in the Renaissance

1987-12-31

Richard Waswo

Exploring the status of the semantic unit in recent linguistic and literary theories--the sign itself--Richard Waswo relates present-day literary concerns to Renaissance thought about the connections between language and meaning. … Exploring the status of the semantic unit in recent linguistic and literary theories--the sign itself--Richard Waswo relates present-day literary concerns to Renaissance thought about the connections between language and meaning. Originally published in 1987. 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.

A New History of French Literature

1990-01-01

Richard J. Golsan , Denis Hollier

The Light in Troy, Imitation and Discovery in Renaissance Poetry.

1983-12-01

Victoria Kahn , Thomas M. Greene

De Cive: the English Version

1651-01-01

Thomas Hobbes

Music and ceremony at Notre Dame of Paris, 500-1550

1990-11-01

Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance

2014-10-10

Ada Palmer

Ada Palmer explores how Renaissance poets and philologists, not scientists, rescued Lucretius and his atomism theory. This heterodoxy circulated in the premodern world, not on the conspicuous stage of heresy … Ada Palmer explores how Renaissance poets and philologists, not scientists, rescued Lucretius and his atomism theory. This heterodoxy circulated in the premodern world, not on the conspicuous stage of heresy trials and public debates but in the classrooms, libraries, studies, and bookshops where quiet scholars met transformative ideas.

The Cornucopian Text. Problems of Writing in the French Renaissance

1980-07-01

François Rigolot , Terence Cave

Spectacle and Society in Livy's History

1999-12-31

Andrew Feldherr

Public spectacle—from the morning rituals of the Roman noble to triumphs and the shows of the Arena—formed a crucial component of the language of power in ancient Rome. The historian … Public spectacle—from the morning rituals of the Roman noble to triumphs and the shows of the Arena—formed a crucial component of the language of power in ancient Rome. The historian Livy (c. 60 B.C.E.-17 C.E.), who provides our fullest description of Rome's early history, presents his account of the growth of the Roman state itself as something to be seen—a visual monument and public spectacle. Through analysis of several episodes in Livy's History , Andrew Feldherr demonstrates the ways in which Livy uses specific visual imagery to make the reader not only an observer of certain key events in Roman history but also a participant in those events. This innovative study incorporates recent literary and cultural theory with detailed historical analysis to put an ancient text into dialogue with contemporary discussions of visual culture. In Spectacle and Society in Livy's History , Feldherr shows how Livy uses the literary representation of spectacles from the Roman past to construct a new sense of civic identity among his readers. He offers a new way of understanding how Livy's technique addressed the political and cultural needs of Roman citizens in Livy's day. In addition to renewing our understanding of Livy through modern scholarship, Feldherr provides a new assessment of the historian's aims and methods by asking what it means for the historian to make readers spectators of history.

Trattatisti del Cinquecento

1978-01-01

Mario Pozzi

Renaissance genres : essays on theory, history, and interpretation

1986-01-01

Barbara Kiefer Lewalski

Renaissance Paratexts

2011-05-19

Helen Smith , Matthew Day , Juliet Fleming +7 more

In his 1987 work Paratexts, the theorist Gérard Genette established physical form as crucial to the production of meaning. Here, experts in early modern book history, materiality and rhetorical culture … In his 1987 work Paratexts, the theorist Gérard Genette established physical form as crucial to the production of meaning. Here, experts in early modern book history, materiality and rhetorical culture present a series of compelling explorations of the architecture of early modern books. The essays challenge and extend Genette's taxonomy, exploring the paratext as both a material and a conceptual category. Renaissance Paratexts takes a fresh look at neglected sites, from imprints to endings, and from running titles to printers' flowers. Contributors' accounts of the making and circulation of books open up questions of the marking of gender, the politics of translation, geographies of the text and the interplay between reading and seeing. As much a history of misreading as of interpretation, the collection provides novel perspectives on the technologies of reading and exposes the complexity of the playful, proliferating and self-aware paratexts of English Renaissance books.

Una micobatteriosi non così tanto "atipica"

2025-06-24

Rita Sfeir | Medico e Bambino

In the presence of unilateral lymph node swelling that has persisted for more than 3 weeks, in the absence of suspicious signs of malignancy, unresponsive to first-line antibiotic therapy, it … In the presence of unilateral lymph node swelling that has persisted for more than 3 weeks, in the absence of suspicious signs of malignancy, unresponsive to first-line antibiotic therapy, it is appropriate to consider a non-tuberculous mycobacterial infection in the differential diagnosis.

ALFIERI IN VIAGGIO CON MONTAIGNE: LA RICERCA DI UN'IDENTITÀ INTERIORE

2025-06-20

Maurizio Masi | Italiano LinguaDue

Il seguente saggio intende indagare due aspetti importanti nella vita dell’autore: i viaggi, considerati soprattutto da un punto di vista conoscitivo e metafisico, e la lettura dei Saggi di Montaigne. … Il seguente saggio intende indagare due aspetti importanti nella vita dell’autore: i viaggi, considerati soprattutto da un punto di vista conoscitivo e metafisico, e la lettura dei Saggi di Montaigne. Incrociando fra loro questi due elementi, le loro circostanze e le loro reciproche influenze, l’articolo vuole evidenziare come questi aspetti siano basilari per la conversione interiore di Alfieri ai fini della nascita vera e propria della vocazione poetica. Alfieri travelling with Montaigne: the search for an inner identity The following essay intends to investigate two important aspects in the author’s life: his travels, considered mainly from a cognitive and metaphysical point of view, and his reading of Montaigne’s Essays. Cross-referencing these two elements, their circumstances and mutual influences, the article aims to highlight how these aspects are basic to Alfieri's inner conversion for the purpose of the actual birth of the poetic vocation.

Litterae deauratae et pictae – nieznane włoskie wycinki z papieskich rękopisów iluminowanych w Muzeum Narodowym w Krakowie

2025-06-17

Justyna Łuczyńska-Bystrowska | Archiwa Biblioteki i Muzea Kościelne

W Muzeum Narodowym w Krakowie znajduje się zbiór albumów zawierających serię inicjałów wyciętych z XVI-wiecznych włoskich rękopisów iluminowanych pochodzących z księgozbioru papieskiego z zakrystii Kaplicy Sykstyńskiej. Rewolucja francuska i kampanie … W Muzeum Narodowym w Krakowie znajduje się zbiór albumów zawierających serię inicjałów wyciętych z XVI-wiecznych włoskich rękopisów iluminowanych pochodzących z księgozbioru papieskiego z zakrystii Kaplicy Sykstyńskiej. Rewolucja francuska i kampanie napoleońskie spowodowały masowe rozproszenie kolekcji arystokratycznych i księgozbiorów klasztornych, co przyniosło daleko idące skutki na rynku antykwarycznym w XIX wieku. Podczas inwazji napoleońskiej na Rzym w 1798 roku zrabowane zostały skarby Watykanu, wraz z zawartością zakrystii Kaplicy Sykstyńskiej, w której znajdował się bezcenny księgozbiór gromadzony przez wieki przez kolejnych papieży i dostojników kościelnych. Najliczniejsza grupa watykańskich rękopisów weszła w posiadanie ks. Luigiego Celottiego (1759-1843), zatrudnionego przez rodzinę Barbarigo w Wenecji, konesera i marszanda sztuki. 26 maja 1825 roku w londyńskim Christie’s odbyła się pierwsza w dziejach aukcja w całości poświęcona wycinkom i pojedynczym kartom wyciętym ze średniowiecznych i renesansowych rękopisów. Zostały na niej wystawione miniatury, fragmenty bordiur, inicjały i pojedyncze karty wycięte ze średniowiecznych i renesansowych rękopisów, które następnie rozprzestrzeniły się między biblioteki i kolekcje prywatne na całym świecie. Celem artykułu jest analiza historyczno-artystyczna nieznanych dotąd albumów w zbiorach Muzeum Narodowego w Krakowie w kontekście XIX-wiecznych praktyk kolekcjonerskich.

Joachim Du Bellay, the Murder of Livia Colonna (1522–1554), and Lyric Communities Between Rome and France*

2025-06-11

Jack Hayes | Italian Studies

Jody Enders, ed. and trans. Trial by Farce: A Dozen Medieval French Comedies in English for the Modern Stage. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2023.

2025-06-10

Andreea Marculescu | Early Theatre

This review considers Jody Enders's translation and edition Trial by Farce: A Dozen Medieval French Comedies in English for the Modern Stage. This review considers Jody Enders's translation and edition Trial by Farce: A Dozen Medieval French Comedies in English for the Modern Stage.

Prime Indagini Per La Nuova Edizione Critica Del Dittamondo Di Fazio Degli Uberti

2025-06-10

Gabriele Tanassi | Textual Cultures

The aim of this article is to provide a first contribution for the new critical edition of Fazio degli Uberti’s Dittamondo, a medieval encyclopedic poem which was last published in … The aim of this article is to provide a first contribution for the new critical edition of Fazio degli Uberti’s Dittamondo, a medieval encyclopedic poem which was last published in the mid-twentieth century. Starting with a critical and historical study dedicated to the author, the work, and the status quaestionis, this article includes a philological analysis of the previous edition and the presentation of the new recensio: the research consists of an updated census of manuscripts and printed editions of the Dittamondo, along with their descriptions; moreover, the article shows the first results of the new collatio, focused on two of the most important manuscripts, Cesena, Biblioteca Malatestiana, S. XXVI.3 (Cm) and Verona, Biblioteca Civica, 2889 (Ve). The recognition of innovations and errors and the analysis of their quality has led to a better understanding of the copyists’ modus operandi and to the identification of significant errors (conjunctive and separative), fundamental for the following steps of the critical edition. Considering the high number of witnesses and the length of the text, this research represents the first step of a much larger work which is supposed to be collaborative in the future.

Fury and the antitheatrical prejudice: The violent power of play‐acting in the Cervantine picaresque

2025-06-09

Rasmus Vangshardt | Orbis Litterarum

Abstract The article studies a cross‐generic relation between theatrical performance and the outbreak of violence in picaresque contexts across works by Miguel de Cervantes. It then proceeds to contextualize these … Abstract The article studies a cross‐generic relation between theatrical performance and the outbreak of violence in picaresque contexts across works by Miguel de Cervantes. It then proceeds to contextualize these persistent incidents within the philosophical history of antitheatricality. Expounding how arguments of antitheatricality in Plato, Tertullian, Augustine, and Erasmus can be seen as a via negativa to articulate the power of theater, the article outlines three typical arguments of intellectual antitheatricality. These are applied to investigate how Cervantes' works reiterate these standard arguments while simultaneously mocking traditional claims of the immoral, the arousing, and the demonic. This leads to the conclusion that Cervantes' works convey a very old sense of the power of theater along with the contribution of a new philosophical perspective on the much‐debated issue of Cervantes' relation to the stage.

Appendice : Stemmata codicum

2025-06-02

Boccaccio’s Cleopatra, of: waarom huidskleur belangrijk is (en was)1

2025-06-01

Ivo Wolsing | Lampas

Painting and Music: Renaissance Expressions of Harmony

2025-05-30

Hande Tokgöz | Conservatorium / Konservatoryum

René Martin, Jacques Gaillard, Les genres littéraires à Rome, Paris, Nathan, 1990

2025-05-28

Emilio Zaina | Argos

Rabelais

2025-05-22

Nicolas Le Cadet | Réforme Humanisme Renaissance

La Bibliothèque et le survivant (The Library and the survivor)

2025-05-21

Anouche Der Sarkissian

Nicaea’s Digital Afterlives

2025-05-21

Caroline T. Schroeder

19 – Saying thank you to Mr Racine

2025-05-20

The Fed

From the discovery to the future of the lymphatic system: a virtual interview with Gaspare Aselli

2025-05-20

Alberto Macciò

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Le Critère sceptique: Approches anciennes et modernes, directed by Enzo Godinot et Lucas Pétuaud-Létang

2025-05-19

Clémentine Vallet

Au de-là de la Vita nova : assujettissement et subjectivation dans la chanson montanina

2025-05-19

Algebraic Novelties

2025-05-18

Libellous Texts and Early Modern Media

2025-05-16

Clare Egan

Abstract Chapter 4 explores the distinctively literary quality of verse libels aimed directly at pricking the inner conscience of their targets, whilst also staging such imagined rhetorical interactions before the … Abstract Chapter 4 explores the distinctively literary quality of verse libels aimed directly at pricking the inner conscience of their targets, whilst also staging such imagined rhetorical interactions before the ears—and eyes—of their communal collectives. The media by which libel verses reached their audiences were mixed: as previous chapters emphasize, they were publicly performed, but as Chapter 4 investigates, they were also written and, having been performed, circulated as texts. This chapter argues that provincial verse libels cultivated a distinctive voice, which engaged both the person or persons libelled and their communal spectators in subtle ways. In doing so, the chapter seeks to overcome the tendency to group and gloss provincial or popular verse libel as poor quality. The chapter investigates how verse libels infiltrated networks of multimedia public communications, demonstrating that libels exploited social rhetorics to lend authority to their messages for an active and normative spectatorship.

Patterns in the 1625–1650 Editions

2025-05-15

Márk Somos , Matthew R. Cleary , Pablo Nicolas Dufour +2 more

Abstract This chapter analyses the patterns in distribution, dissemination, and circulation of copies of the 1625–1650 editions of IBP as a whole. The methodological points made throughout the analysis of … Abstract This chapter analyses the patterns in distribution, dissemination, and circulation of copies of the 1625–1650 editions of IBP as a whole. The methodological points made throughout the analysis of the nine editions also apply to the aggregate figures. A diachronic analysis of ownership suggests that interest in these IBP editions peaked in the seventeenth century. The chapter investigates which edition should be read to truly and best understand the nature of this text, examining the authority and various merits of each edition studied. The chapter examines the criteria and motives for co-binding and the evidence for the use of IBP as a prize in Dutch educational institutions, and then investigates evidence for non-legal readings within the spheres of religion, classics, and philosophy.

The Development of Italian Comic Opera in the 18th Century

2025-05-15

Jiawei Li

This paper takes Italian opera buffa as the research object, and focuses on analyzing the artistic characteristics of Italian opera buffa. It analyzes the famous Italian opera buffa composers and … This paper takes Italian opera buffa as the research object, and focuses on analyzing the artistic characteristics of Italian opera buffa. It analyzes the famous Italian opera buffa composers and their works in the 18th century. Italian opera buffa emerged in the 18th century, and this genre is characterized by satire, humor, and secular life, which contrasts sharply with the solemn and dignified grand opera of that time. The second part explains the rise of opera buffa from the perspective of the gradual decline of grand opera; the third part describes the process of opera buffa reaching its peak in the second half of the 18th century, while the fourth part lists Mozart's innovations in the themes and techniques of Italian opera buffa, to prove the uniqueness of Mozart's creation of Italian opera buffa. The whole article provides a historical overview of the decline of grand opera, the birth of opera buffa, the period of change, and the period of prosperity, and tries to prove that the rise of opera buffa represents that truly great art belongs to the people, entertaining the masses while inspiring people to think more deeply.

François Rabelais and the Renaissance physiology of invention: ingenious animation

2025-05-08

Anthony Ossa‐Richardson

Joan-Ratot

2025-05-08

Paul Scott Derrick , Maria-Lluïsa Gea-Valor

Francesco Caccini and Ginevra Brancacci: Marital Collaboration in Fifteenth Century Florence☆

2025-05-06

Deborah Pellegrino

Abstract This article sheds light on the role of women as procurators in Renaissance Florence, focusing on Ginevra Brancacci (1432–1499) and her legal and economic agency during her marriage to … Abstract This article sheds light on the role of women as procurators in Renaissance Florence, focusing on Ginevra Brancacci (1432–1499) and her legal and economic agency during her marriage to Francesco Caccini (1414–1465). Drawing on newly‐discovered archival documents, it explores Ginevra's ability and authority to manage Francesco's estate and finances while her husband was in exile, showing some of the strategies through which women could safeguard family wealth in challenging circumstances. Female procurators were in some ways exceptional, yet they also exemplified the financial and legal clout that women exercised in fifteenth‐century Florence. Francesco's will, account books, and correspondence, alongside Ginevra's private writings, offer a detailed portrait of their partnership, highlighting the collaborative dynamics between husband and wife, as well as between elite women and their kinsmen. Together, they illustrate how women's legal agency operated within a matrix of trust and collaboration among and within elite families and their kin networks.

Jean-Charles Vegliante, Comme celui qui voit. Essai sur Dante , Tarabuste Éditeur, 2024, 156 pages.

2025-05-06

Adrien Le Bihan | Sigila

Dante sur le seuil secret de Béatrice

2025-05-06

Adrien Le Bihan | Sigila

Lessing, Thomson und die Renaissance der frühneuzeitlichen Tragödie

2025-05-06

Leonie Süwolto

Abstract To the extent that the domestic tragedy ( bürgerliches Trauerspiel ) is understood as the antithesis of classicist tragedy, Lessing, as the main representative of this genre, is seen … Abstract To the extent that the domestic tragedy ( bürgerliches Trauerspiel ) is understood as the antithesis of classicist tragedy, Lessing, as the main representative of this genre, is seen as an overcomer of heroic-political traditions. Lessing’s Vorrede zu des Herrn Jakob Thomson Sämtliche Trauerspiele (1756), little noticed so far, suggests to revise these arguments. In particular, Lessing’s reading of Thomson’s tragedy Sophonisbe (1730) allows us to recognise those poetological reflections that are developed in Miss Sara Sampson (1755) and further explicated in the Briefwechsel über das Trauerspiel . To put it more concretely: in his examination of Thomson’s tragedies, Lessing drafts a concept of domestic tragedy that is by no means based on overcoming classicist tragedy, but on its transformation. Thus, Lessing’s dramaturgic concept builds on the model of Roman heroism and transforms it by returning to an ideal of Greek ‘simplicity’, meant to evoke humanity and pity.

Notice of Duplication Publication: Holy ghosts: classic tales of the ecclesiastical uncanny

2025-05-05

Duval, Edwin M. Concordes et discordes des muses. Poésie, musique et renaissance des genres lyriques en France (1350–1650)

2025-05-05

Isabelle His

Pouey-Mounou, Anne-Pascale et Silvia D’Amico, dir. Le poète aux mille tours. La traduction des épithètes homériques à la Renaissance

2025-05-05

Marie-Alice Belle

5 Aegritudo Perdicae: The Death of Love Poetry?

2025-05-05

Laubner, Jérôme. Vénus malade. Représentations de la vérole et des vérolés dans les discours littéraires et médicaux en France (1495–1633)

2025-05-05

Gabriel Michel

Pietro Diacono, Liber illustrium virorum archisterii Casinensis, ed. Mariano Dell’Omo

2025-05-01

Bernhard Zeller

Book Review: Gert Crum and Jan Bartelsman: Le Domaine de la Romanée-Conti

2025-05-01

Robert N. Stavins

Seventeenth-Century Libraries. Problems and Perspectives, hg. von Robyn Adams–Jac queline Glomski.

2025-05-01

Mona Garloff

Chapter Boundaries and Scene Shifts in Early Modern Prose Romances

2025-05-01

Sebastian Straßburg

ABSTRACT: This essay argues that there is not a clear linear development of the chapter from medieval printed romances to the novel. Through a functional analysis of chapter boundaries in … ABSTRACT: This essay argues that there is not a clear linear development of the chapter from medieval printed romances to the novel. Through a functional analysis of chapter boundaries in the early modern prose romance it becomes evident that chapters perform a much more complex function than dividing episodes or marking a scene shift. A large portion of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century romances do not contain chapters at all. Chapters are especially common in conservative chivalric romances that both in content and form (including the print type) imitate medieval romance. Close readings illustrate how authors use chapter boundaries to guide the attention of their readers, emphasize certain passages, such as speeches and other rhetorical set pieces, or provide metanarrative commentary. Traditional forms of the scene shift are not replaced by the use of chapters but supplement each other. Finally, the essay also explores the use of techniques other than chapter boundaries to achieve comparable effects, such as the use of headings to mark important passages or the insertion of rhyming couplets within prose texts. The essay comes to the conclusion that the introduction of chapters aided early modern authors in fashioning an explicitly literary genre that remained popular well into the eighteenth century.