 | 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....
 |  | Letters to Friends (I Tatti Renaissance Library)
Publication Date: May 31, 2011| Series: I Tatti Renaissance Library (Book 47) Bartolomeo Fonzio (1447–1513) was a leading literary figure in Florence during the time of Lorenzo de’ Medici and Machiavelli. A professor of poetry and rhetoric at the University of Florence, he included among his friends and colleagues leading figures such as Marsilio Ficino, Angelo Poliziano, John Argyropoulos, Cristoforo Landino, and Pietro Soderini. He was one of the principal collaborators in creating the famous humanist library of King Mattyas Corvinus of Hungary. As a scholar and teacher, he d...
|  | Music from the Tang Court: Volume 5
Publication Date: June 29, 1990| ISBN-10: 0521347769 | ISBN-13: 978-0521347761| Edition: Revised From the oldest surviving Japanese manuscripts in tablature (ninth- fourteenth-centuries) the book provides transcripts into staff-notation of (largely) entertainment-music, played at banquets at the Chinese Court in the Tang period, borrowed by the Japanese not later than 841. The music has never been transcribed before and has not been heard for 800 years or more, so drastically has it been transformed in Japanese performance. The history of each piece of music, as given in Chinese and Japa...
|  | Emanuel Swedenborg: A Continuing Vision
Publication Date: November 1, 1988This commemorative volume, containing over 400 colour and black-and-white illustrations offers today's reader an incomparable survey of the prodigious accomplishments, spiritual insights and enduring influences of one of the supreme intellects of all time. ...
|  | 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...
|  | The Motives of Eloquence: Literary Rhetoric in the Renaissance
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|  | Resistant Structures: Particularity, Radicalism, and Renaissance Texts (The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics)
Publication Date: March 31, 1997| Series: The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics Taking Wittgenstein's "Don't think, but look" as his motto, Richard Strier argues against the application of a priori schemes to Renaissance (and all) texts. He argues for the possibility and desirability of rigorously attentive but "pre-theoretical" reading. His approach privileges particularity and attempts to respect the "resistant structures" of texts. He opposes theories, critical and historical, that dictate in advance what texts must--or cannot--say or do.The first part of the book, "Against Sch...
|  | 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). ...
|  | Ciceronian Controversies (I Tatti Renaissance Library)
Publication Date: April 30, 2007| ISBN-10: 0674025202 | ISBN-13: 978-0674025202 The most important literary dispute of the Renaissance pitted those writers of Neo-Latin who favored imitation of Cicero alone, as the single best exemplar of Latin prose, against those who preferred to follow an eclectic array of literary models. This Ciceronian controversy is the subject of the texts collected for the first time in this volume: exchanges of letters between Angelo Poliziano and Paolo Cortesi; between Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola and Pietro Bembo; and between Giovambattista Giraldi Cinz...
|  | On Discovery (I Tatti Renaissance Library)
Publication Date: June 30, 2002| ISBN-10: 0674007891 | ISBN-13: 978-0674007895| Edition: Bilingual The Italian humanist Polydore Vergil (1470-1555) was born in Urbino but spent most of his life in early Tudor England. His most popular work, On Discovery (De inventoribus rerum, 1499), was the first comprehensive account of discoveries and inventions written since antiquity. Thirty Latin editions of this work were published in Polydore's lifetime, and by the eighteenth century more than a hundred editions had appeared in eight languages, including Russian. On Discovery became a key referen...
|  | Essays and Dialogues (I Tatti Renaissance Library)
Publication Date: May 1, 2008| ISBN-10: 0674028260 | ISBN-13: 978-0674028265From humble beginnings, Bartolomeo Scala (1430–1497) trained in the law and rose to prominence as a leading citizen of Florence, serving as secretary and treasurer to the Medicis and chancellor of the Guelf party before becoming first chancellor of Florence, a post he held for fifteen years. His palace in Borgo Pinti, modeled on classical designs, was emblematic of his achievements as a humanist as well as a public official. Along with his professional writings as chancellor, Scala’s personal treati...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | The Prisoner's Philosophy: Life and Death in Boethius's CONSOLATION
Publication Date: November 15, 2006"Acknowledging that the Consolation of Philosophyis ‘over-familiar and under-read,’ Joel Relihan puts to the side old bromides about the work and instead pays careful attention to the narrative(s) Boethius constructs, grounding his readings in the contexts the work cultivates, especially its Menippean elements. The result is perhaps the first satisfying reading of the Consolation to be produced, a satisfaction felt also in the ways Relihan mirrors Boethius himself in the thoroughness of his scholarship and the elegance of his exposition. No one wh...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
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