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The Figino, or, On the purpose of painting
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ISBN: 0802035744 080208446X 9786612014642 1282014641 1442681276 9781442681279 9781282014640 9780802035745 9780802084460 Year: 2001 Publisher: Toronto Buffalo London

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Of the many treatises written in Italy during the Counter-Reformation, none is more illustrative of the intellectual fermentation of the period than Comanini's work on the purpose of painting, Il Figino overo del fine della Pittura (1591). Although the importance of Il Figino has long been recognized, the text has remained largely inaccessible to many scholars throughout the world. This first complete English translation will make the work available to those readers for the first time. In Il Figino, Comanini addresses all of the most hotly debated aesthetic issues of the time, drawing on an array of classical, medieval and Renaissance sources, including Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Mazzoni, Tasso and Paleotti. The editor and translator provide copious notes which clarify Comanini's aesthetic and theological references, as well as a lucid introduction that places the issues and debates in context. Comanini's impressive erudition makes his treatise an excellent barometer of the state of scholarship in the Counter-Reformation era. This translation is a long-overdue addition to the field of Renaissance studies.


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Journal of agriculture and environment for international development.
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ISSN: 22402802 Year: 1999 Publisher: Florence, Italy : Istituto agronomico per l'oltremare,

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An international, multidisciplinary journal dealing with agricultural production, biotechnology, food security, environment, remote sensing and natural resources evaluation, economics and social science, rural development and soil science


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Vesuvius, campi flegrei, and campanian volcanism
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ISBN: 0128175184 0128164549 9780128164549 9780128175187 Year: 2020 Publisher: Amsterdam, Netherlands : Elsevier,

Renaissance comedy. : the Italian masters
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ISBN: 144268898X 9781442688988 9780802092922 0802092926 9780802094841 0802094848 0802097235 9780802097231 9780802099990 0802099998 9781442697386 1442697385 1442691743 1442661836 Year: 2009 Publisher: Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press,

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In this second volume of Renaissance Comedy, Donald Beecher presents six more of the best-known plays of the period, each with its own introduction, reading notes, and annotations. Beecher's general introduction, though stand-alone, complements and extends the historical and critical essay prefacing the first volume. Together, the eleven plays in both volumes illuminate the range, variety, and development of the Italian comedy.The second volume of Renaissance Comedy raises fascinating questions about the uses of classical literature, the conventions of comedy, the politics of theatrical production, and the representation of contemporary social issues. Though it is clear that comedic plays exercised considerable influence over the development of European drama, these plays are above all remarkable for their sheer wit and invention, and their capacity to generate laughter and admiration in readers nearly half a millennium later.

Il riposo
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ISBN: 1442688297 9781442688292 9780802097439 080209743X 1442692294 Year: 2007 Publisher: Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press,

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Raffaello Borghini's Il Riposo (1584) is the most widely known Florentine document on the subject of the Counter-Reformation content of religious paintings. Despite its reputation as an art-historical text, this is the first English-language translation of Il Riposo to be published. A distillation of the art gossip that was a feature of the Medici Grand Ducal court, Borghini's treatise puts forth simple criteria for judging the quality of a work of art. Published sixteen years after the second edition of Giorgio Vasari's Vite, the text that set the standard for art-historical writing during the period, Il Riposo focuses on important issues that Vasari avoided, ignored, or was oblivious to. Picking up where Vasari left off, Borghini deals with artists who came after Michaelangelo and provides more comprehensive descriptions of artists who Vasari only touched upon such as Tintoretto, Veronese, Barocci, and the artists of Francesco I's Studiolo. This text is also invaluable as a description of the mid-sixteenth century reaction against the style of the 'maniera,' which stressed the representation of self-consciously convoluted figures in complicated works of art.The first art treatise specifically directed toward non-practitioners, Il Riposo gives unique insight into the early stages of art history as a discipline, late Renaissance art and theory, and the Counter-Reformation in Italy.


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The pleasant nights.
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ISBN: 1442699531 9781442699533 144269954X Year: 2012 Publisher: Toronto [Ont.] University of Toronto Press


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The Italianist : journal of the departments of Italian Studies, University of Reading, University College Dublin.
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ISSN: 02614340 1748619X Year: 1981 Publisher: [Reading, Berkshire] : [Leeds, U.K.] : Printed by the College of Estate Management, University of Reading Maney Publishing, <2007->

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