Risorgimento Collection

Risorgimento Collection
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher: British Museum Press
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1971
Genre: History
ISBN:

From Kant to Croce

From Kant to Croce
Author: Brian P. Copenhaver
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 873
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1442642661

From around 1800, shortly before Pasquale Galluppi's first book, until 1950, just before Benedetto Croce died, the most formative influences on Italian philosophers were Kant and the post-Kantians, especially Hegel. In many ways, the Italian philosophers of this period lived in turbulent but creative times, from the Restoration to the Risorgimento and the rise and fall of Fascism. From Kant to Croce is a comprehensive, highly readable history of the main currents and major figures of modern Italian philosophy, described in a substantial introduction that details the development of the discipline during this period. Brian P. Copenhaver and Rebecca Copenhaver provide the only up-to-date introduction in English to Italy's leading modern philosophers by translating and analysing rare and original texts and by chronicling the lives and times of the philosophers who wrote them. Thoroughly documented and highly readable, From Kant to Croce examines modern Italian philosophy from the perspective of contemporary analytic philosophy.

Parlour Games and the Public Life of Women in Renaissance Italy

Parlour Games and the Public Life of Women in Renaissance Italy
Author: George W. McClure
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442646594

Confined by behavioural norms and professional restrictions, women in Renaissance Italy found a welcome escape in an alternative world of play. This book examines the role of games of wit in the social and cultural experience of patrician women from the early sixteenth to the early eighteenth century. Beneath the frivolous exterior of such games as occasions for idle banter, flirtation, and seduction, there often lay a lively contest for power and agency, and the opportunity for conventional women to demonstrate their intellect, to achieve a public identity, and even to model new behaviour and institutions in the non-ludic world. By tapping into the records and cultural artifacts of these games, George McClure recovers a realm of female fame that has largely escaped the notice of modern historians, and in so doing, reveals a cohort of spirited, intellectual women outside of the courts.

The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance

The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance
Author: Kenneth R. Bartlett
Publisher: Lexington, Mass. ; Toronto : D.C. Heath
Total Pages: 476
Release: 1992
Genre: History
ISBN:

The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance offers material drawn from the fourteenth to the early sixteenth centuries surveying the social, economic, political, cultural, and intellectual history of Renaissance Italy. The diverse documents include court records, poetry, fiction, ricordanze, courtesy books, letters, maxims, histories, and humanist treatises.

A Worlde of Wordes

A Worlde of Wordes
Author: John Florio
Publisher: Georg Olms Publishers
Total Pages: 490
Release: 1972
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: