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John Florio
A Worlde of Wordes
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
A Worlde of Wordes, the first-ever comprehensive Italian-English dictionary, was published in 1598 by John Florio. One of the most prominent linguists and educators in Elizabethan England, Florio was greatly responsible for the spreading of Italian letters and culture throughout educated English society....
Speaking Spirits
Ventriloquizing the Dead in Renaissance Italy
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
In classical and early modern rhetoric, to write or speak using the voice of a dead individual is known as eidolopoeia. Whether through ghost stories, journeys to another world, or dream visions, Renaissance writers frequently used this rhetorical device not only to co-opt the authority of their predecessors...
by Courtney Quaintance
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Textual Masculinity and the Exchange of Women in Renaissance Venice is a provocative analysis of the pornographic poetry written in patrician poet Domenico Venier’s social circle. While Venier and his salon were renowned for elegant love sonnets featuring unattainable female beloveds, among themselves...
Befriending the Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala
The Comic Scenarios
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The most important theatrical movement in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Europe, the commedia dell’arte has inspired playwrights, artists, and musicians including Molière, Dario Fo, Picasso, and Stravinsky. Because of its stock characters, improvised dialogue, and extravagant theatricalism,...
Dante's Lyric Poetry
Poems of Youth and of the 'Vita Nuova'
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The first comprehensive English translation and commentary on Dante’s early verse to be published in almost fifty years, Dante’s Lyric Poetry includes all the poems written by the young Dante Aligheri between c. 1283 and c. 1292. Essays by Teodolinda Barolini guide the reader through the new verse...
The Unfolding of Words
Commentary in the Age of Erasmus
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Leading sixteenth-century scholars such as Martin Luther and Desiderius Erasmus used print technology to engage in dialogue and debate with authoritative contemporary texts. By what Juan Luis Vives termed 'the unfolding of words,' these humanists gave old works new meanings in brief notes and extensive...
The Gargantuan Polity
On The Individual and the Community in the French Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2008
Critics and scholars have long argued that the Renaissance was the period that gave rise to the modern individual. The Gargantuan Polity examines political, legal, theological, and literary texts in the late Middle Ages, to show how individuals were defined by contracts of mutual obligation, which...
Theorizing the Ideal Sovereign
The Rise of the French Vernacular Royal Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Theorizing the Ideal Sovereign, examines the ways in which vernacular biographies of kings from the later French Middle Ages reflected and contributed to transformations in late-medieval political and philosophical thought. Using a lens of literary analysis for works that have more often been read...
Philippe de Commynes
Memory, Betrayal, Text
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Philippe de Commynes, a diplomat who specialized in clandestine operations, served King Louis XI during his campaign to undermine aristocratic resistance and consolidate the sovereignty of the French throne. He is credited with inventing the political memoir, but his reminiscence has also been described...
The Court Book of Mende and the Secular Lordship of the Bishop
Recollecting the Past in Thirteenth-Century Gévaudan
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2008
Mende is a diocese in south-central France where, in the 1260s, scribes of Bishop Odilon de Mercoeur created an extensive court book or register of litigated cases. Their intention was to develop an archive for the use of the chancery as well as to preserve the causae of the episcopal court. These...
The Town of York 1793-1815
A Collection of Documents of Early Toronto
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
This volume, the fifth of the Ontario Series of the Champlain Society, tells the history of the town of York (Toronto) from the arrival of John Graves Simcoe in 1793 through the war of 1812 until news of the peace reached the town in the spring of 1815. The selection of contemporary documents attempts...
Bringing in the Sheaves
Economy and Metaphor in the Roman World
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
The annual harvesting of cereal crops was one of the most important economic tasks in the Roman Empire. Not only was it urgent and critical for the survival of state and society, it mobilized huge numbers of men and women every year from across the whole face of the Mediterranean. In Bringing in the...
Stillness in Motion
Italy, Photography, and the Meanings of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Stillness in Motion brings together the writing of scholars, theorists, and artists on the uneasy relationship between Italian culture and photography. Highlighting the depth and complexity of the Italian contribution to the technology and practice of photography, this collection offers essays, interviews,...
Path of Thorns
Soviet Mennonite Life under Communist and Nazi Rule
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Under Bolshevik and Nazi rule, nearly one-third of all Soviet Mennonites – including more than half of all adult men – perished, while a large number were exiled to the east and the north by the Soviet secret police (NKVD). Others fled westward on long treks, seeking refuge in Germany during the...