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Author : Lisa Birnbach
Release : 1984
Genre : Education
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Book Synopsis Lisa Birnbach's College Book by : Lisa Birnbach
Download or read book Lisa Birnbach's College Book written by Lisa Birnbach. This book was released on 1984. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon A. Gilson
Release : 2005-01-13
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 658/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dante and Renaissance Florence by : Simon A. Gilson
Download or read book Dante and Renaissance Florence written by Simon A. Gilson. This book was released on 2005-01-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon Gilson explores Dante's reception in his native Florence between 1350 and 1481. He traces the development of Florentine civic culture and the interconnections between Dante's principal 'Florentine' readers, from Giovanni Boccaccio to Cristoforo Landino, and explains how and why both supporters and opponents of Dante exploited his legacy for a variety of ideological, linguistic, cultural and political purposes. The book focuses on a variety of texts, both Latin and vernacular, in which reference was made to Dante, from commentaries to poetry, from literary lives to letters, from histories to dialogues. Gilson pays particular attention to Dante's influence on major authors such as Boccaccio and Petrarch, on Italian humanism, and on civic identity and popular culture in Florence. Ranging across literature, philosophy and art, across languages and across social groups, this study fully illuminates for the first time Dante's central place in Italian Renaissance culture and thought.
Author : Carmine Di Biase
Release : 2006
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 686/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Travel and Translation in the Early Modern Period by : Carmine Di Biase
Download or read book Travel and Translation in the Early Modern Period written by Carmine Di Biase. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between travel and translation might seem obvious at first, but to study it in earnest is to discover that it is at once intriguing and elusive. Of course, travelers translate in order to make sense of their new surroundings; sometimes they must translate in order to put food on the table. The relationship between these two human compulsions, however, goes much deeper than this. What gets translated, it seems, is not merely the written or the spoken word, but the very identity of the traveler. These seventeen essays--which treat not only such well-known figures as Martin Luther, Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Milton, but also such lesser known figures as Konrad Grünemberg, Leo Africanus, and Garcilaso de la Vega--constitute the first survey of how this relationship manifests itself in the early modern period. As such, it should be of interest both to scholars who are studying theories of translation and to those who are studying "hodoeporics", or travel and the literature of travel.
Author : Ludovico Lazzarelli
Release : 2005
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Lodovico Lazzarelli (1447-1500) by : Ludovico Lazzarelli
Download or read book Lodovico Lazzarelli (1447-1500) written by Ludovico Lazzarelli. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amanda Lillie
Release : 2005-04-18
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis Florentine Villas in the Fifteenth Century by : Amanda Lillie
Download or read book Florentine Villas in the Fifteenth Century written by Amanda Lillie. This book was released on 2005-04-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, which was originally published in 2005, Amanda Lillie challenges the urban bias in Renaissance art and architectural history by investigating the architecture and patronage strategies, particularly those of the Strozzi and the Sassetti clans, in the Florentine countryside during the fifteenth century. Based entirely on archival material that remained unpublished at the time of publication, her book examines a number of villas from this period and reconstructs the value systems that emerge from these sources, which defy the traditional, idealized interpretation of the 'renaissance villa'. Here, the house is studied in relation to the families who lived in them and to the land that surrounded them. The villa emerges as a functional, utilitarian farming unit upon whose success families depended, and where dynastic and patrimonial values could be nurtured.
