Singing to the Lyre in Renaissance Italy: Memory, Performance, and Oral Poetry, Hardcover - Blake Wilson

A primary mode for the creation and dissemination of poetry in Renaissance Italy was the oral practice of singing and improvising verse to the acco...

Vernacular poetry in Renaissance Italy was typically created and disseminated by improvising singer-poets. This is the first comprehensive study of...

Considered by many to be the greatest Irish song poet of her generation, Máire Bhuí Ní Laeire (Yellow Mary O'Leary; 1774-1848) was an illiterate wo...

The songs of the beloved Irish poet Maire Bhui Ni Laeire (Yellow Mary O'Leary) explore themes of colonial subjection, oppression and injustice, rep...

Reducere. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860) is a work of art history by Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt. Recognized today as the founder o...

Fruits and vegetables as erotic metaphors in still life paintings, the Florentine Baptistry replicated in sausage and cheese by Andrea del Sarto, a...

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This invaluable collection explores the many faces of murder and its cultural presences across the Italian peninsula in the Renaissance. Dealing wi...

Family was a central feature of social life in Italian cities. This wide-ranging volume explores patrimony in legal thought and how family property...

Titian, one of the most successful painters of the Italian Renaissance, was credited by his contemporaries with painting a miracle-working image, t...

Reducere. Lively and reader-friendly, this second edition of Daily Life in Renaissance Italy provides a colorful and accurate sense of how it felt to inhabit...

Reducere. Join Carole P. Roman and travel through time to visit the most interesting civilizations throughout history in the first four books of her new seri...

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A bold, revisionist account of the political thought of the Italian Renaissance--from Petrarch to Machiavelli--that reveals the all-important role ...

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A new history uncovers the crucial role women played in the great transformations of medical science and health care that accompanied the Italian R...

Reducere. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860) is a work of art history by Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt. Recognized today as the founder o...

Reducere. Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry examines the limits of embodiment, knowledge, and representation at a disregard...

For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world ...

The twelve essays in this volume, each written by a leading specialist, present an accessible and comprehensive introduction to Italian Renaissance...

Political life in Renaissance Italy was held together by principles which underlay, or were used to justify, political proposals and decisions in p...

Through its examination of the religious paintings by Pontormo, this book offers a new way to understand the fraught relationship between artistic ...

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Reissue, previously titled }Art And Society In Italy 1350 - 1500{.

Lucrezia Borgia's name has echoed through history as a byword for evil - a poisoner who committed incest with her natural father, Pope Alexander VI...

4th edition. Revised edition, with 200 new illustrations.

In this fascinating new history, Paul N Balchin provides a comprehensive account of one of the more formative historical periods, uniquely describi...

Reducere. Join Carole P. Roman and travel through time to visit the most interesting civilizations throughout history in the first four books of her new seri...

Classic study of the condottiere of fifteenth-century Italy.

This extraordinary story is told from the archive documents in the case of Sister Benedetta Carlini, an Abbess who was imprisoned for thirty-five y...

Reducere. Reconstructing the activity of the "Tribunal of the Faith" in Italy during the period 1400-1600, this compelling book analyzes the ideology of its ...

In his bestselling book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies revealed that it was the Chinese that discovered America, not Colu...

Salomone da Sesso was a virtuoso goldsmith in Renaissance Italy. Brought down by a sex scandal, he saved his skin by converting to Catholicism. Tam...

In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance.

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Reducere. The Italian Renaissance marked a period of political and military turmoil. Many regional wars were fought between the states ruled by Milan, Venice...

Founded in 1540, the Society of Jesus was instantly popular, attracting thousands of candidates in its first century. Camilla Russell looks to the ...

The act of eating is a basic human need. Yet, in all societies, quotidian choices regarding food and its consumption reveal deeply rooted shared cu...

Reducere. The legendary Renaissance math duel that ushered in the modern age of algebraThe Secret Formula tells the story of two Renaissance mathematicians w...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Peter BurkePreface by: Peter BurkeIn this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural h...