Michelangelo''s Christian Mysticism - Spirituality, Poetry and Art in Sixteenth-Century Italy

Informationen zum Autor Sarah Rolfe Prodan is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies at Victoria University in the University of Toronto, where she has designed and taught cultural history courses for the Renaissance Studies program and lectured on Italian language and literature. Her research interests include Michelangelo, the Italian Reformation, and the intersection of literature and art in the Italian religious culture of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Prodan has been interviewed on Michelangelo and on the Renaissance for both audio-visual and print media and she has participated in numerous international conferences as a speaker and as an organizer. A published translator of French and Italian, and a scholarly writer, her work has appeared in such journals as Quaderni d'italianistica, Confraternitas, and Annali d'italianistica. Most recently she co-edited a volume on friendship and pre-modern Europe. Klappentext Sarah Rolfe Prodan combines a literary, historical, and biographical approach to analyze the mystical constructs and conceits in Michelangelo's poems. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Michelangelo and Renaissance Augustinianism: 1. 'The sea, the mountain, and the fire with the sword': an Augustinian pilgrimage?; 2. 'The sea': the vicissitudes of inordinate love, or hell as habit; 3. 'The mountain': acedia and the mind's presumption to ascend; 4. 'The fire with the sword': grace and divine presence; Conclusion; Part II. Michelangelo and Viterban Spirituality: 5. The benefit of Christ; 6. The action of the spirit; 7. Michelangelo's Viterban poetics; 8. Aesthetics, reform, and Viterban sociability; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Rolfe Prodan, Prodan Sarah Rolfe
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.03.2016
• EAN: 9781107619043
• ISBN: 978-1-107-61904-3
• No. of pages: 267
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; European History, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, Italy, mysticism, Spirituality & religious experience, c 1500 onwards to present day, History of Religion, Literature & literary studies, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature: history & criticism, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600