Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature

Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature
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Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Total Pages : 1104
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ISBN-10 : 9781465602961
ISBN-13 : 1465602968
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Synopsis Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature by : John Addington Symonds

ThisÊwork on the Renaissance in Italy, of which I now give the last two volumes to the public, was designed and executed on the plan of an essay or analytical inquiry, rather than on that which is appropriate to a continuous history. Each of its four partsÑtheÊAge of the Despots, theRevival of Learning, theÊFine Arts, andÊItalian LiteratureÑstood in my mind for a section; each chapter for a paragraph; each paragraph for a sentence. At the same time, it was intended to make the first three parts subsidiary and introductory to the fourth, for which accordingly a wider space and a more minute method of treatment were reserved. The first volume was meant to explain the social and political conditions of Italy; the second to relate the exploration of the classical past which those conditions necessitated, and which determined the intellectual activity of the Italians; the third to exhibit the bias of this people toward figurative art, and briefly to touch upon its various manifestations; in order that, finally, a correct point of view might be obtained for judging of their national literature in its strength and limitations. Literature must always prove the surest guide to the investigator of a people's character at some decisiveÊepoch. To literature, therefore, I felt that the plan of my book allowed me to devote two volumes. The subject of my inquiry rendered the method I have described, not only natural but necessary. Yet there are special disadvantages, to which progressive history is not liable, in publishing a book of this sort by installments. Readers of the earlier parts cannot form a just conception of the scope and object of the whole. They cannot perceive the relation of its several sections to each other, or give the author credit for his exercise of judgment in the marshaling and development of topics. They criticise each portion independently, and desire a comprehensiveness in parts which would have been injurious to the total scheme. Furthermore, this kind of book sorely needs an Index, and its plan renders a general Index, such as will be found at the end of the last volume, more valuable than one made separately for each part. Ê

Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2)

Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2)
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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages : 338
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ISBN-10 : 9783752426151
ISBN-13 : 3752426152
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Synopsis Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by : John Addington Symonds

Reproduction of the original: Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds

Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation

Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 1185
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ISBN-10 : 9781442658479
ISBN-13 : 1442658479
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Synopsis Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation by : Robin Healey

Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation provides the most complete record possible of texts from the early periods that have been translated into English, and published between 1929 and 2008. It lists works from all genres and subjects, and includes translations wherever they have appeared across the globe. In this annotated bibliography, Robin Healey covers over 5,200 distinct editions of pre-1900 Italian writings. Most entries are accompanied by useful notes providing information on authors, works, translators, and how the translations were received. Among the works by over 1,500 authors represented in this volume are hundreds of editions by Italy's most translated authors – Dante Alighieri, Machiavelli, and Boccaccio – and other hundreds which represent the author's only English translation. A significant number of entries describe works originally published in Latin. Together with Healey's Twentieth-Century Italian Literature in English Translation, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature.

A Catalogue of Petrarch Books

A Catalogue of Petrarch Books
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Total Pages : 102
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:32044082284464
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Synopsis A Catalogue of Petrarch Books by : Willard Fiske

Manuscript copy of a portion of the card catalog of the Petrarch collection as it came to the Cornell Library from Florence. Volume 1 covers A to Bergantini, and volume 2 covers Berluc-Perussis to Bidelli and Petrarca--Rime to Rime--Danish. Bound in limp red morocco bordered in gilt, with marbled endpapers.

The Reception of Aristotle’s Poetics in the Italian Renaissance and Beyond

The Reception of Aristotle’s Poetics in the Italian Renaissance and Beyond
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 313
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ISBN-10 : 9781350078949
ISBN-13 : 1350078948
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Synopsis The Reception of Aristotle’s Poetics in the Italian Renaissance and Beyond by : Bryan Brazeau

Using new and cutting-edge perspectives, this book explores literary criticism and the reception of Aristotle's Poetics in early modern Italy. Written by leading international scholars, the chapters examine the current state of the field and set out new directions for future study. The reception of classical texts of literary criticism, such as Horace's Ars Poetica, Longinus's On the Sublime, and most importantly, Aristotle's Poetics was a crucial part of the intellectual culture of Renaissance Italy. Revisiting the translations, commentaries, lectures, and polemic treatises produced, the contributors apply new interdisciplinary methods from book history, translation studies, history of the emotions and classical reception to them. Placing several early modern Italian poetic texts in dialogue with twentieth-century literary theory for the first time, The Reception of Aristotle's Poetics in the Italian Renaissance and Beyond models contemporary practice and maps out avenues for future study.

Sprezzatura

Sprezzatura
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Publisher : Anchor
Total Pages : 418
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ISBN-10 : 9780385720199
ISBN-13 : 038572019X
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis Sprezzatura by : Peter D'Epiro

A witty, erudite celebration of fifty great Italian cultural achievements that have significantly influenced Western civilization from the authors of What Are the Seven Wonders of the World? “Sprezzatura,” or the art of effortless mastery, was coined in 1528 by Baldassare Castiglione in The Book of the Courtier. No one has demonstrated effortless mastery throughout history quite like the Italians. From the Roman calendar and the creator of the modern orchestra (Claudio Monteverdi) to the beginnings of ballet and the creator of modern political science (Niccolò Machiavelli), Sprezzatura highlights fifty great Italian cultural achievements in a series of fifty information-packed essays in chronological order.