Education And Society In Florentine Tuscany

Author : Robert Black
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004158537
Total Pages : 871 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Education and Society in Florentine Tuscany written by Robert Black and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 871 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarship on pre-university education in Italy before 1500 has been dominated by studies of individual towns or by general syntheses; this work offers not only an archival study of a region but also attempts to discern crucial local variations.

Author : Jonathan Davies
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004477594
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Florence and its University during the Early Renaissance written by Jonathan Davies and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes a substantial contribution to the study of Florentine history. It answers an important but hitherto unresolved question: why did the Florentine Republic keep a university in its capital city between 1385 and 1473 rather than follow the example of other Italian states in maintaining a university in a subject town? Based on a wide range of newly-found sources, it discloses that the University owed its survival to the support of the Florentine elite, especially the Medici family and its followers. It reveals systematically the close ties between the University and major developments in the social, economic, political, ecclesiastical, and cultural life of Florence and Florentine Tuscany. The appendices fill some of the greatest gaps in our knowledge of the University, identifying administrators, students, examiners, and teachers.

Author : Richard T. Lindholm
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783086378
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quantitative Studies of the Renaissance Florentine Economy and Society written by Richard T. Lindholm and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2017-01-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quantitative Studies of the Renaissance Florentine Economy and Society is a collection of nine quantitative studies probing aspects of Renaissance Florentine economy and society. The collection, organized by topic, source material and analysis methods, discusses risk and return, specifically the population’s responses to the plague and also the measurement of interest rates. The work analyzes the population’s wealth distribution, the impact of taxes and subsidies on art and architecture, the level of neighborhood segregation and the accumulation of wealth. Additionally, this study assesses the competitiveness of Florentine markets and the level of monopoly power, the nature of women’s work and the impact of business risk on the organization of industrial production.

Author : Angela Dressen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108918328
Total Pages : 731 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Intellectual Education of the Italian Renaissance Artist written by Angela Dressen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have traditionally viewed the Italian Renaissance artist as a gifted, but poorly educated craftsman whose complex and demanding works were created with the assistance of a more educated advisor. These assumptions are, in part, based on research that has focused primarily on the artist's social rank and workshop training. In this volume, Angela Dressen explores the range of educational opportunities that were available to the Italian Renaissance artist. Considering artistic formation within the history of education, Dressen focuses on the training of highly skilled, average artists, revealing a general level of learning that was much more substantial than has been assumed. She emphasizes the role of mediators who had a particular interest in augmenting artists' knowledge, and highlights how artists used Latin and vernacular texts to gain additional knowledge that they avidly sought. Dressen's volume brings new insights into a topic at the intersection of early modern intellectual, educational, and art history.

Author : Nicolino Applauso
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498567797
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dante's Comedy and the Ethics of Invective in Medieval Italy written by Nicolino Applauso and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-11-13 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dante's Comedy and the Ethics of Invective in Medieval Italy proposes a new approach to invective and comic poetry in Italy during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and opens the way for an innovative understanding of Dante’s masterpiece. The Middle Ages in Italy offer a wealth of vernacular poetic invectives—polemical verses aimed at blaming specific wrongdoings of an individual, group, city or institution— that are both understudied and rarely juxtaposed. No study has yet provided a scholarly examination of the connection between this medieval invective tradition, and its elements of humor, derision, and reprehension in Dante’s Comedy. This book argues that these comic texts are rooted in and actively engaged with the social, political, and religious conflicts of their time. Political invective has a dynamic ethical orientation that is mediated by a humor that disarms excessive hostility against its individual targets, providing an opening for dialogue. While exploring medieval comic poems by Rustico Filippi (from Florence), Cecco Angiolieri (from Siena), and Folgore da San Gimignano, this study unveils new biographical data about these poets retrieved from Italian state archives (most of these data are published here in English for the very first time), and ultimately shows what the medieval invective tradition can add to our understanding of Dante’s Comedy.

Author : Wolfgang Lutz
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN 13 : 1928357369
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Education First! written by Wolfgang Lutz and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "e;This scholarly yet highly accessible volume by two renowned experts shows why education is under threat, and what should be done to counter this. The authors mobilise a fascinating array of compelling historical and current evidence which demonstrates the centrality of education to the creation of flourishing societies and show the dire consequences of its neglect. Anyone interested in education and development should read this book."e; - Professor Ian Goldin, University of Oxford

Author : Jonathan Davies
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004464867
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Renaissance Politics and Culture written by Jonathan Davies and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-16 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten essays by eminent scholars in Renaissance studies to celebrate the work of Robert Black. These essays analyze education, humanism, political thought, printing, and the visual arts during this key period in their development.

Author : Dr Lauren McGuire Jennings
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472418905
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Senza Vestimenta: The Literary Tradition of Trecento Song written by Dr Lauren McGuire Jennings and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-11-28 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The metaphor of marriage often describes the relationship between poetry and music in both medieval and modern writing. While the troubadours stand out for their tendency to blur the distinction between speaking and singing, between poetry and song, a certain degree of semantic slippage extends into the realm of Italian literature through the use of genre names like canzone, sonetto, and ballata. Yet, paradoxically, scholars have traditionally identified a 'divorce' between music and poetry as the defining feature of early Italian lyric. Senza Vestimenta reintegrates poetic and musical traditions in late medieval Italy through a fresh evaluation of more than fifty literary sources transmitting Trecento song texts. These manuscripts have been long noted by musicologists, but until now they have been used to bolster rather than to debunk the notion that so-called 'poesia per musica' was relegated to the margins of poetic production. Jennings revises this view by exploring how scribes and readers interacted with song as a fundamentally interdisciplinary art form within a broad range of literary settings. Her study sheds light on the broader cultural world surrounding the reception of the Italian ars nova repertoire by uncovering new, diverse readers ranging from wealthy merchants to modest artisans.

Author : Robert Black
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780582784062
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machiavelli written by Robert Black and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intellectual biography of the 15th-century political scientist, showing the development in his thought from early subversive radicalism while an outcast from Florentine society to his later reconciliation with the establishment and more conventional norms in his writing.

Author : John M. Najemy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Florence and Beyond written by John M. Najemy and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume celebrates John M. Najemy and his contributions to the study of Florentine and Italian Renaissance history. Over the last three decades, his books and articles on Florentine politics and political thought have substantially revised the narratives and contours of these fields. They have also provided a framework into which he has woven innovative new threads that have emerged in Renaissance social and cultural history. Presented by his many students and friends, the essays aim to highlight his varied interests and to suggest where they may point for future studies of Florence and, indeed, beyond. -- Amazon.com.