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Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)
Download or read book Venetian Life written by William Dean Howells and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : London, N. Trübner & Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)
Download or read book Venetian Life written by William Dean Howells and published by London, N. Trübner & Company. This book was released on 1866 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 898 pages
Book Rating : 4.6E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Venetian Life written by William Dean Howells and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1867 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patricia Fortini Brown
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300102364
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)
Download or read book Private Lives in Renaissance Venice written by Patricia Fortini Brown and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As the sixteenth century opened, members of the patriciate were increasingly withdrawing from trade, desiring to be seen as "gentlemen in fact" as well as "gentlemen in name." The author considers why this was so and explores such wide-ranging themes as attitudes toward wealth and display, the articulation of family identity, the interplay between the public and the private, and the emergence of characteristically Venetian decorative practices and styles of art and architecture. Brown focuses new light on the visual culture of Venetian women - how they lived within, furnished, and decorated their homes; what spaces were allotted to them; what their roles and domestic tasks were; how they dressed; how they raised their children; and how they entertained. Bringing together both high arts and low, the book examines all aspects of Renaissance material culture."--BOOK JACKET.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004252525
Total Pages : 992 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of Venetian studies has experienced a significant expansion in recent years, and the Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797 provides a single volume overview of the most recent developments. It is organized thematically and covers a range of topics including political culture, economy, religion, gender, art, literature, music, and the environment. Each chapter provides a broad but comprehensive historical and historiographical overview of the current state and future directions of research. The Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797 represents a new point of reference for the next generation of students of early modern Venetian studies, as well as more broadly for scholars working on all aspects of the early modern world. Contributors are Alfredo Viggiano, Benjamin Arbel, Michael Knapton, Claudio Povolo, Luciano Pezzolo, Anna Bellavitis, Anne Schutte, Guido Ruggiero, Benjamin Ravid, Silvana Seidel Menchi, Cecilia Cristellon, David D’Andrea, Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, Wolfgang Wolters, Dulcia Meijers, Massimo Favilla, Ruggero Rugolo, Deborah Howard, Linda Carroll, Jonathan Glixon, Paul Grendler, Edward Muir, William Eamon, Edoardo Demo, Margaret King, Mario Infelise, Margaret Rosenthal and Ronnie Ferguson.
Author : Sister Bartolomea Riccoboni
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226717909
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)
Download or read book Life and Death in a Venetian Convent written by Sister Bartolomea Riccoboni and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These works by Sister Bartolomea Riccoboni offer an intimate portrait of the women who inhabited the Venetian convent of Corpus Domini, where they shared a religious life bounded physically by the convent wall and organized temporally by the rhythms of work and worship. At the same time, they show how this cloistered community vibrated with news of the great ecclesiastical events of the day, such as the Great Western Schism and the Council of Constance. While the chronicle recounts the history of the nuns' collective life, the necrology provides highly individualized biographies of nearly fifty women who died in the convent between 1395 and 1436. We follow the fascinating stories that led these women, from adolescent girls to elderly widows, to join the convent; and we learn of their cultural backgrounds and intellectual accomplishments, their ascetic practices and mystical visions, their charity and devotion to each other and their fortitude in the face of illness and death. The personal and social meaning of religious devotion comes alive in these texts, the first of their kind to be translated into English.
Author : Leone Modena
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691008240
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-century Venetian Rabbi written by Leone Modena and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1988-09-21 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leon (Judah Aryeh) Modena was a major intellectual figure of the early modern Italian Jewish community--a complex and intriguing personality who was famous among contemporary European Christians as well as Jews. Modena (1571-1648) produced an autobiography that documents in poignant detail the turbulent life of his family in the Jewish ghetto of Venice. The text of this work is well known to Jewish scholars but has never before been translated from the original Hebrew, except in brief excerpts. This complete translation, based on Modena's autograph manuscript, makes available in English a wealth of historical material about Jewish family life of the period, religion in daily life, the plague of 1630-1631, crime and punishment, the influence of kabbalistic mysticism, and a host of other subjects. The translator, Mark R. Cohen, and four other distinguished scholars add commentary that places the work in historical and literary context. Modena describes his fascination with the astrology and alchemy that were important parts of the Jewish and general culture of the seventeenth century. He also portrays his struggle against poverty and against compulsive gambling, which, cleverly punning on a biblical verse, he called the "sin of Judah." In addition, the book contains accounts of Modena's sorrow over his three sons: the death of the eldest from the poisonous fumes of his own alchemical laboratory, the brutal murder of the youngest, and the exile of the remaining son. The introductory essay by Mark R. Cohen and Theodore K. Rabb highlights the significance of the work for early modern Jewish and general European history. Howard E. Adelman presents an up-to-date biographical sketch of the author and points the way toward a new assessment of his place in Jewish history. Natalie Z. Davis places Modena's work in the context of European autobiography, both Christian and Jewish, and especially explores the implications of the Jewish status as outsider for the privileged exploration of the self. A set of historical notes, compiled by Howard Adelman and Benjamin C. I. Ravid, elucidates the text.
Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849654591
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)
Download or read book Venetian Life written by William Dean Howells and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2020 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A large part of Howell's time in Venice was given up to a critical study of life in that city, and in his "Venetian Life," which appeared in 1866, he has given to the world the result of his observation and study. The book abounds in dainty pen pictures of the beauties of Venice ; as he tells us of the Grand canal, we can almost hear the dipping paddles of passing gondolas, and the barcarolle wafted on the evening breeze. It may seem almost sacrilege to lovers of the old legends, that he explains away the romanticism of the Doge's palace, and denominates the Bridge of Sighs a " pathetic swindle". The book's finish was such as to reveal the highly interesting literary individuality of the author.
Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 375235707X
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)
Download or read book Venetian Life written by William Dean Howells and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Venetian Life by William Dean Howells
Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)
Download or read book Venetian Life written by William Dean Howells and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
