 | The History of the Ancient and Honorable Tuesday Club (Three Volume Set)
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 |  | Garden and Grove: The Italian Renaissance Garden in the English Imagination, 1600-1750
Publication Date: January 1, 1996Garden and Grove is a pioneering study of the English fascination with Italian Renaissance gardens. John Dixon Hunt studies reactions of English visitors in their journals and travel books to the exciting world of Italian gardens: its links with classical villas, with Virgil and farming, with Ovid and metamorphosis, its association with theater, its variety, its staged debates between art and nature. Then he looks at what English visitors made of these Italian garden experiences upon their return home and at how they created Italianate gardens on their estate...
|  | A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: November 18, 2002| ISBN-10: 1405106263 | ISBN-13: 978-1405106269This is a one volume, up-to-date collection of more than fifty wide-ranging essays which will inspire and guide students of the Renaissance and provide course leaders with a substantial and helpful frame of reference. Provides new perspectives on established texts. Orientates the new student, while providing advanced students with current and new directions. Pioneered by leading scholars. Occupies a unique niche in Renaissance studies. Illustrated with 12 single-page black and white prints....
|  | The Rabelais Encyclopedia
Publication Date: September 30, 2004| ISBN-10: 0313310343 | ISBN-13: 978-0313310348The French humanist Rabelais (ca. 1483-1553) was the greatest French writer of the Renaissance and one of the most influential authors of all time. His Gargantua and Pantagruel, written in five books between 1532 and 1553, rivals the works of Shakespeare and Cervantes in terms of artistry, complexity of ideas and expression, and historical importance. Rabelais is read in numerous courses in French Literature, Renaissance Studies, and Western Civilization, and his writings continue to attract the attention ...
|  | Animal Characters: Nonhuman Beings in Early Modern Literature (Haney Foundation Series)
Publication Date: June 29, 2010| Series: Haney Foundation Series During the Renaissance, horses—long considered the privileged, even sentient companions of knights-errant—gradually lost their special place on the field of battle and, with it, their distinctive status in the world of chivalric heroism. Parrots, once the miraculous, articulate companions of popes and emperors, declined into figures of mindless mimicry. Cats, which were tortured by Catholics in the Middle Ages, were tortured in the Reformation as part of the Protestant attack on Catholicism. And sheep, the model for...
|  | JOHN BUNYAN & HIS ENGLAND, 1628-1688
Publication Date: November 1, 2003| ISBN-10: 1852850272 | ISBN-13: 978-1852850272| Edition: 1 This volume of original essays is designed to be of interest to students not only of Bunyan, but of the history, religion and literature of the seventeenth century ...
|  | Jean D'Espagnet's The Summary of Physics Restored (Enchyridion Physicae Restitutae): The 1651 Translation with D'Espagnet's Arcanum (1650) (English Renaissance Hermeticism)
Publication Date: December 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0824075420 | ISBN-13: 978-0824075422| Edition: 1 First published together in Latin in 1623, these two tracts were at once recognized to be among the clearest descriptions ever written of the hermetic cosmology and the alchemical work. They were translated into English by two leading occultists, John Everard and Elias Ashmole. The introduction provides a full biography of d'Espagnet, a retired public official who published his works under strict anonymity. It also traces the influence these works had on later generations of practical alchemists...
|  | Erasmus: His Life, Works, and Influence (Erasmus Studies)
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|  | History of Venice, Volume 3: Books IX-XII (I Tatti Renaissance Library)
Publication Date: November 30, 2009| Series: I Tatti Renaissance Library (Book 37)Pietro Bembo (1470–1547), a Venetian nobleman, later a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, was the most celebrated Latin stylist of his day and was widely admired for his writings in Italian as well. His early dialogue on the subject of love greatly influenced the development of the literary vernacular, as did his Prose della volgar lingua (1525). From 1513 to 1521, he served Pope Leo X as Latin secretary and became known as the leading advocate of Ciceronian Latin in Europe and of the Tuscan dialect...
|  | Aphra Behn (New Casebooks)
Publication Date: April 19, 1999| Series: New Casebooks Aphra Behn's work has been subject to critical fashion, and her literary reputation was only really secured in the closing decade of the 20th century, especially by new historicist and feminist critics. The essays collected here represent a range of contemporary critical views, discussing both Behn's drama and her prose writings. Todd provides an introduction mapping Behn's literary reception, situating the works of the critics included in a broader literary context and pointing towards Behn as a newly politicized figure at the close of...
|  | Essais (French Edition)
Publication Date: September 3, 2010| ISBN-10: 1178224643 | ISBN-13: 978-1178224641This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfect...
|  | The Motives of Eloquence: Literary Rhetoric in the Renaissance
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|  | Tragedy Under Grace: Reinhold Schneider on the Experience of the West (Communio Book)
Publication Date: March 1, 1997| Series: Communio Book Hans Urs von Balthasar In Tragedy Under Grace, Hans Urs von Balthasar presents a magisterial portrait of one of the most fascinating figures of the European Catholic renaissance, the historian and man of letters, Reinhold Schneider, whose response to the spiritual collapse of the West led him to Christ and to an interpretation of history in the light of the cross. Balthasar's painstaking reconstruction of Schneider's spiritual and intellectual itinerary, which traces the author's discovery of the presence of grace in the tragic conflicts...
|  | Commentaries, Volume 2: Books III-IV (I Tatti Renaissance Library)
Publication Date: November 30, 2007| Series: I Tatti Renaissance Library (Book 29) The Renaissance popes were among the most enlightened and generous patrons of arts and letters in the Europe of their day. The diaries of Pius II give us an intimate glimpse of the life and thought of one of the greatest of the Renaissance popes. Pius II (1405-1464) began life as Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini in a small town near Siena and became a famous Latin poet and diplomat. Originally an opponent of the papacy as well as something of a libertine, Aeneas eventually reconciled himself with the Roman church an...
|  | Italy Illuminated, Volume 1: Books I-IV (I Tatti Renaissance Library) (Latin Edition)
Publication Date: July 29, 2005| ISBN-10: 0674017439 | ISBN-13: 978-0674017436Biondo Flavio (1392-1463), humanist and historian, was a pioneering figure in the Renaissance recovery of classical antiquity. While serving a number of the Renaissance popes, he inaugurated an extraordinary program of research into the history, institutions, cultural life, and physical remains of the ancient Roman empire. The Italia Illustrata (1453), which appears here for the first time in English, is a topographical work describing Italy region by region. Its aim is to explore the Roman roots of the Renaiss...
|  | Renaissance England's Chief Rabbi: John Selden
Publication Date: March 9, 2006| ISBN-10: 0199286132 | ISBN-13: 978-0199286133In the midst of an age of prejudice, John Selden's immense, neglected rabbinical works contain magnificent Hebrew scholarship that respects, to an extent remarkable for the times, the self-understanding of Judaism. Scholars celebrated for their own broad and deep learning gladly conceded Selden's superiority and conferred on him titles such as "the glory of the English nation" (Hugo Grotius), "Monarch in letters" (Ben Jonson), "the chief of learned men reputed in this land" (John Milton). Although scholars have...
|  | George Sandys: Travel, Colonialism and Tolerance in the Seventeenth Century (Studies in Renaissance Literature)
Publication Date: October 31, 2002| ISBN-10: 0859917509 | ISBN-13: 978-0859917506The poet George Sandys is one of the most interesting figures of the Renaissance period, his life and career encompassing a number of varied aspects. As a colonialist leader in Virginia he and his colleagues pursued a lenient policy towards the Indians which nearly cost the colony its existence. Returning to England, and settling at Great Tew along with other poets such as William Chillingworth and Lord Falkland, he won limited favour at the Caroline court; although he was loyal to the king, and adopted a ri...
|  | In Renaissance Florence with Leonardo (Come See My City)
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|  | Music in the Castle: Troubadours, Books, and Orators in Italian Courts of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries
Publication Date: April 15, 1996| ISBN-10: 0226279685 | ISBN-13: 978-0226279688| Edition: 1 Written by one of Italy's most eminent scholars of music, this book explores music's place in the cultural, artistic, and literary life of medieval Italian courts, paying particular attention to the influence of French culture on Italian artistic and musical traditions.In the first of three elegant essays, Gallo examines the troubadours who traveled to northern Italian courts from Provence during the thirteenth century. He discusses their performance practices, the verbal and musical sophisticatio...
|  | Misrepresentations: Shakespeare and the Materialists
Release Date: December 14, 1993Just at the moment when conflicts between critical "isms" are threatening to turn the study of English literature into a game park for endangered texts, Bradshaw arrives with a work of liberating wit and insight. His subject is double: the Shakespeare he reads and the Shakespeare whom critics in the ranks of the new historicists and cultural materialists are representing (or misrepresenting). ...
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