Miserabile Et Glorioso Lodovic

Author : Ronnie H. Terpening
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802041593
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miserabile Et Glorioso Lodovic written by Ronnie H. Terpening and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terpening shows that not only did Dolce make interesting contributions to Italian literature, but he also played a decisive role in the formation and diffusion of late Cinquecento culture.

Author : Katelijne Schiltz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316299899
Total Pages : 550 pages
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Download or read book Music and Riddle Culture in the Renaissance written by Katelijne Schiltz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the Renaissance, composers often expressed themselves in a language of riddles and puzzles, which they embedded within the music and lyrics of their compositions. This is the first book on the theory, practice and cultural context of musical riddles during the period. Katelijne Schiltz focuses on the compositional, notational, practical, social and theoretical aspects of musical riddle culture c.1450–1620, from the works of Antoine Busnoys, Jacob Obrecht and Josquin des Prez to Lodovico Zacconi's manuscript collection of Canoni musicali. Schiltz reveals how the riddle both invites and resists interpretation, the ways in which riddles imply a process of transformation and the consequences of these aspects for the riddle's conception, performance and reception. Lavishly illustrated and including a comprehensive catalogue by Bonnie J. Blackburn of enigmatic inscriptions, this book will be of interest to scholars of music, literature, art history, theology and the history of ideas.

Author : Ellen Rosand
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520254260
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice written by Ellen Rosand and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-10-09 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this elegantly constructed study of the early decades of public opera, the conflicts and cooperation of poets, composers, managers, designers, and singers—producing the art form that was soon to sweep the world and that has been dominant ever since—are revealed in their first freshness."—Andrew Porter "This will be a standard work on the subject of the rise of Venetian opera for decades. Rosand has provided a decisive contribution to the reshaping of the entire subject. . . . She offers a profoundly new view of baroque opera based on a solid documentary and historical-critical foundation. The treatment of the artistic self-consciousness and professional activities of the librettists, impresarios, singers, and composers is exemplary, as is the examination of their reciprocal relations. This work will have a positive effect not only on studies of 17th-century, but on the history of opera in general."—Lorenzo Bianconi

Author : Samuel Rawson Gardiner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution 1625 - 1660 written by Samuel Rawson Gardiner and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Larner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349005894
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lords of Romagna written by John Larner and published by Springer. This book was released on 1965-06-18 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rafael Sabatini
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN 13 : 9780343759469
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Cesare Borgia of France written by Rafael Sabatini and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : James Westfall Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wars of Religion in France, 1559-1576 written by James Westfall Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wendy Heller
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520919343
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emblems of Eloquence written by Wendy Heller and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-01-12 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opera developed during a time when the position of women—their rights and freedoms, their virtues and vices, and even the most basic substance of their sexuality—was constantly debated. Many of these controversies manifested themselves in the representation of the historical and mythological women whose voices were heard on the Venetian operatic stage. Drawing upon a complex web of early modern sources and ancient texts, this engaging study is the first comprehensive treatment of women, gender, and sexuality in seventeenth-century opera. Wendy Heller explores the operatic manifestations of female chastity, power, transvestism, androgyny, and desire, showing how the emerging genre was shaped by and infused with the Republic's taste for the erotic and its ambivalent attitudes toward women and sexuality. Heller begins by examining contemporary Venetian writings about gender and sexuality that influenced the development of female vocality in opera. The Venetian reception and transformation of ancient texts—by Ovid, Virgil, Tacitus, and Diodorus Siculus—form the background for her penetrating analyses of the musical and dramatic representation of five extraordinary women as presented in operas by Claudio Monteverdi, Francesco Cavalli, and their successors in Venice: Dido, queen of Carthage (Cavalli); Octavia, wife of Nero (Monteverdi); the nymph Callisto (Cavalli); Queen Semiramis of Assyria (Pietro Andrea Ziani); and Messalina, wife of Claudius (Carlo Pallavicino).

Author : James Dennistoun
Publisher : London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 to 1630 written by James Dennistoun and published by London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. This book was released on 1851 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Enikő Csukovits
Publisher : Viella Libreria Editrice
ISBN 13 : 8833134326
Total Pages : 237 pages
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Download or read book Hungary and the Hungarians written by Enikő Csukovits and published by Viella Libreria Editrice. This book was released on 2020-09-14T17:35:00+02:00 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Middle Ages the majority of people in Western Europe never met any Hungarians. They didn’t even hear about them, as news about Hungary only reached Western Europe in times of extraordinary historical events– such as the adoption of Christianity at the turn of the 11th century, or the devastating Tatar invasion in 1241-1242. Obtaining information about the Hungarians from books was also difficult, as medieval Europe, even as late as in the 15th-16th centuries, lacked libraries that would have offered greater numbers of works on Hungary or on Hungarian topics. On top of it all, works that contained the most detailed and accurate information remained unknown, in their own period; posterity only found them in rare manuscript copies discovered much later. Yet once collected, we find that these sources, originating from distant parts of the continent and written for different purposes, contain information about Hungary and the Hungarians that most often reaffirm one another. This work examines these sources and sets out to answer four major questions: What did people in medieval Western Europe know, think, and believe about the Hungarians and Hungary? To what degree was this knowledge constant or fluid over the centuries that made up the medieval era, and were changes in knowledge followed by any changes in appreciation? Where was the country located in the hierarchy of European countries on the basis of the knowledge, suppositions, and beliefs relating to it? What were the most important elements in this image of the Hungarians and of Hungary, and which of them became the most enduring stereotypes?