Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance

Informationen zum Autor Michael Wyatt is an independent scholar. His work is engaged with the pre-modern cultural histories of Italy, England and France, particularly questions of translation as both a textual practice and a socio-political phenomenon. He is the author of The Italian Encounter with Tudor England: A Cultural Politics of Translation (2005) and co-edited (with Deanna Shemek) Writing Relations, American Scholars in Italian Archives: Essays for Franca Nardelli Petrucci and Armando Petrucci (2008). He is currently working on a second monograph, John Florio and the Circulation of Stranger Cultures in Early Stuart Britain, a critical edition of Florio's 1603 translation of Montaigne, The Essayes or Morall, Politike and Millitarie Discourses, and he is an associate editor of The Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Klappentext Leading international contributors present a lively and interdisciplinary panorama of the Italian Renaissance as it has developed in recent decades. Zusammenfassung The Renaissance in Italy continues to exercise a powerful hold on the popular imagination. This Companion presents a lively! comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to a period that witnessed both a significant revalidation of the classical past and the development of new! vernacular and increasingly secular values. Inhaltsverzeichnis Renaissances Michael Wyatt; 1. Artistic geographies Stephen J. Campbell; 2. Antiquities Kathleen Wren Christian; 3. Mapping and voyages Francesca Fiorani; 4. Artists' workshops Patricia L. Reilly; 5. Technologies Michael Wyatt; 6. Languages Maurizio Campanelli; 7. Publication Brian Richardson; 8. Verse Deanna Shemek; 9. Prose Jon R. Snyder; 10. Music Giuseppe Gerbino; 11. Spectacle Ronald L. Martinez; 12. Philosophy Diego Pirillo; 13. Religion Adriano Prosperi; 14. Political cultures Mark Jurdjevic; 15. Economies Judith C. Brown; 16. Social relations Giovanna Benadusi; 17. Science and medicine Katharine Park and Concetta Pennuto; Bibliography....

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• Authors: Wyatt Michael, Michael Wyatt
• Assisted by: Michael Wyatt (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.06.2014
• EAN: 9780521876063
• ISBN: 978-0-521-87606-3
• No. of pages: 472
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Cultur; Cambridge Companions to Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; History of Ideas, European History, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, Italy, c 1500 onwards to present day, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Literary studies: general, Italian, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800