A Companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages

A Companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages
Author: Noel Harold Kaylor
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 685
Release: 2012-05-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 900418354X

The articles in this volume focus upon Boethius's extant works: his De arithmetica and a fragmentary De musica, his translations and commentaries on logic, his five theological texts, and, of course, his Consolation of Philosophy. They examine the effects that Boethian thought has exercised upon the learning of later generations of scholars.

The Medicean Succession

The Medicean Succession
Author: Gregory Murry
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2014-03-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674416198

Cosimo dei Medici stabilized ducal finances, secured his borders, doubled his territory, attracted scholars and artists to his court, academy, and universities, and dissipated fractious Florentine politics. These triumphs were far from a foregone conclusion, as Gregory Murry shows in this study of how Cosimo crafted his image as a sacral monarch.

City Views in the Habsburg and Medici Courts

City Views in the Habsburg and Medici Courts
Author: Ryan E. Gregg
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2018-12-10
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9004386165

Ryan E. Gregg relates how the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and Duke Cosimo I of Tuscany both employed city view artists such as Anton van den Wyngaerde and Giovanni Stradano to aid in constructing authority.

The Cultural Politics of Duke Cosimo I de' Medici

The Cultural Politics of Duke Cosimo I de' Medici
Author: Konrad Eisenbichler
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2017-03-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 135189191X

When he suddenly came to power in Italy in 1537, the young Duke Cosimo I de' Medici amazed friends and foes alike with his ability to extricate himself from mortal danger, affirm his authority and revive a dying state. He doubled the size of his duchy and established a dynasty that ruled unchallenged for 200 years. This volume is the first book-length study in any language to approach the figure of Duke Cosimo I from the point of view of his cultural agenda. The contributors examine the political, economic, cultural and linguistic strategies that made Cosimo a successful leader, and in the process illuminate the cultural world of mid-sixteenth-century Tuscany.

The History of Linguistics in Italy

The History of Linguistics in Italy
Author: Paolo Ramat
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1986-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027279217

This volume brings together the papers published in Historiographia Linguistica 9:3 (1982), which was devoted to the history of linguistics in Italy, with Marazzini’s paper first published in Historiographia Linguistica 10:1/2 (1983), and an original article by Franco Lo Piparo expressly written for this volume. The present volume provides in addition an index of subjects, as well as an index of names, which supplies bio-bibliographical references to authors discussed.

Theatre of the English and Italian Renaissance

Theatre of the English and Italian Renaissance
Author: J.R. Mulryne
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 275
Release: 1991-11-25
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1349217360

Theatre of the English and Italian Renaissance studies interrelationships between English and Italian Theatre of the Renaissance period, including texts, performance and performance spaces, and cultural parallels and contrasts. Connections are traced between Italian writers including Aretino, Castiglione and Zorenzo Valla and such English playwrights as Shakespeare, Lyly and Ben Jonson. The impact of Italian popular tradition on Shakespeare's comedies is analysed, together with Jonson's theatrical recreation of Venice, and Italian sources for the court masques of Jonson, Daniel and Campion.

Locus Amoenus

Locus Amoenus
Author: Alexander Samson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2012-02-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1118232801

Locus Amoenus provides a pioneering collection of new perspectives on Renaissance garden history, and the impact of its development. Experts in the field illustrate the extent of our knowledge of how the natural world looked and how humans related to their environment. A ground-breaking collection of new perspectives on garden history Essays demonstrate the extent of our knowledge of how the natural world looked and how humans related to their environment The book's broad coverage includes botany and herbals, literary reflections of changing ideas of landscape and nature, and human's place within it Contributors come from a wide range of experts, including archaeologists, scholars and the librarian and archivist to the Royal Horticultural Society Reflects the growing emergence of this field, which has been assisted both by archaeology and ideas from green studies and environmental criticism Richly illustrated throughout