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History of Europe --- anno 1500-1799 --- Communication --- European newspapers --- Newspaper publishing --- Press --- History.
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History of Europe --- anno 1500-1599 --- Renaissance. --- Renaissance
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Through the lens of a history of material culture mediated by an object, Angelica's Book and the World of Reading in Late Renaissance Italy investigates aspects of women's lives, culture, ideas and the history of the book in early modern Italy. Inside a badly damaged copy of Straparola's 16th-century work, Piacevoli Notti, acquired in a Florentine antique shop in 2010, an inscription is found, attributing ownership to a certain Angelica Baldachini. The discovery sets in motion a series of inquiries, deploying knowledge about calligraphy, orthography, linguistics, dialectology and the socio-psychology of writing, to reveal the person behind the name. Focusing as much on the possible owner as upon the thing owned, Angelica's Book examines the genesis of the Piacevoli Notti and its many editions, including the one in question. The intertwined stories of the book and its owner are set against the backdrop of a Renaissance world, still imperfectly understood, in which literature and reading were subject to regimes of control; and the new information throws aspects of this world into further relief, especially in regard to women's involvement with reading, books and knowledge. The inquiry yields unexpected insights concerning the logic of accidental discovery, the nature of evidence, and the mission of the humanities in a time of global crisis. Angelica's Book and the World of Reading in Late Renaissance Italy is a thought-provoking read for any scholar of early modern Europe and its culture.
E-books --- Books and reading --- Women --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- History --- Social aspects --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Baldachini, Angelica --- Straparola, Giovanni Francesco, --- Books and reading. --- History of civilization --- History of Italy --- reading culture --- anno 1400-1499 --- European literature --- Renaissance --- History. --- Revival of letters --- Civilization --- History, Modern --- Civilization, Medieval --- Civilization, Modern --- Humanism --- Middle Ages --- Literature, Renaissance --- Renaissance literature --- Literature, Modern
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Esoteric sciences --- anno 1500-1599 --- Astrology --- Renaissance --- Revival of letters --- Civilization --- History, Modern --- Civilization, Medieval --- Civilization, Modern --- Humanism --- Middle Ages --- History
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It has been called “the most singular centaur that religion and science have ever produced” (Franz Boll). Astrology as a cultural form has puzzled and fascinated generations of humankind. It reached its apogee in the European Renaissance, when it flourished in literature, political expression, medicine, art, and all the other areas of endeavor catalogued in this unique collection. Brill’s Companion to Renaissance Astrology brings together a wide array of expertise from around the globe to explain the method and matter of this cultural form, including the Arab and Classical heritage, the medieval tradition, the clash with organized religion, the influence on knowledge and the competition with newly emerging ways of knowing, summarizing the current state of research and suggesting new paths. Contributors include: Giuseppe Bezza, Dieter Blume, Claudia Brosseder, Brendan Dooley, William Eamon, Ornella Faracovi, Hiro Hirai, Wolfgang Hübner, Eileen Reeves, Steven Vanden Broecke, and Graziella Federici Vescovini.
Astrology --- Renaissance. --- Renaissance --- Revival of letters --- Civilization --- History, Modern --- Civilization, Medieval --- Civilization, Modern --- Humanism --- Middle Ages --- History. --- History
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A Mattress Maker's Daughter richly illuminates the narrative of two people whose mutual affection shaped their own lives and in some ways their times. According to the Renaissance legend told and retold across the centuries, a woman of questionable reputation bamboozles a middle-aged warrior-prince into marrying her, and the family takes revenge. He is Don Giovanni de' Medici, son of the Florentine grand duke; she is Livia Vernazza, daughter of a Genoese artisan. They live in luxury for a while, far from Florence, and have a child. Then, Giovanni dies, the family pounces upon the inheritance, and Livia is forced to return from riches to rags. Documents, including long-lost love letters, reveal another story behind the legend, suppressed by the family and forgotten. Brendan Dooley investigates this largely untold story among the various settings where episodes occurred, including Florence, Genoa, and Venice. In the course of explaining their improbable liaison and its consequences, A Mattress Maker's Daughter explores early modern emotions, material culture, heredity, absolutism, and religious tensions at the crux of one of the great transformations in European culture, society, and statecraft. Giovanni and Livia exemplify changing concepts of love and romance, new standards of public and private conduct, and emerging attitudes toward property and legitimacy just as the age of Renaissance humanism gave way to the culture of Counter-Reformation and early modern Europe.
Princes --- Soldiers --- Royalty --- Courts and courtiers --- Medici, Giovanni de', --- Vernazza, Livia, --- Relations with women. --- Italy --- Social life and customs --- Italia --- Italian Republic (1946- ) --- Italianska republika --- Italʹi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Italie --- Italien --- Italii︠a︡ --- Italii︠a︡ Respublikasi --- Italiĭsʹka Respublika --- Itālija --- Itālijas Republika --- Italijos Respublika --- Italikē Dēmokratia --- Īṭāliyā --- Italiya Respublikasi --- It'allia --- It'allia Konghwaguk --- İtalya --- İtalya Cumhuriyeti --- Iṭalyah --- Iṭalye --- Itaria --- Itaria Kyōwakoku --- Jumhūrīyah al-Īṭālīyah --- Kgl. Italienische Regierung --- Königliche Italienische Regierung --- Laško --- Lýðveldið Ítalía --- Olasz Köztársaság --- Olaszország --- Regno d'Italia (1861-1946) --- Repubblica italiana (1946- ) --- Republiḳah ha-Iṭalḳit --- Włochy --- Yidali --- Yidali Gongheguo --- Ιταλική Δημοκρατία --- Ιταλία --- Итальянская Республика --- Италианска република --- Италия --- Италия Республикаси --- Італьянская Рэспубліка --- Італія --- Італійська Республіка --- איטאליע --- איטליה --- רפובליקה האיטלקית --- إيطاليا --- جمهورية الإيطالية --- イタリア --- イタリア共和国 --- 意大利 --- 意大利共和国 --- 이탈리아 --- 이탈리아 공화국 --- Sardinia (Italy)
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Historiography --- Journalism --- Journalism --- Press and politics --- Press and politics --- Skepticism --- Political aspects. --- History. --- History --- History. --- History --- History.
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Energy development --- Power resources --- Energy consumption --- Energy policy --- Energie --- Ressources énergétiques --- Energie --- Politique énergétique --- History. --- History. --- History. --- History. --- Développement --- Histoire --- Histoire --- Consommation --- Histoire --- Histoire
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"One year before Galileo's, another trial was the talk of Rome. The city's most notorious astrologer - Orazio Morandi, abbot of the monastery of Santa Prassede - was brought before the governor's court on charges of possessing prohibited books, fortune telling, and political chicanery. His most serious crime was to have predicted the death of Pope Urban VIII, the news of which spread as far as Spain, where cardinals quickly embarked for Italy to attend a conclave that would not occur for fourteen years. The pope, furious at such astrological and political effrontery, personally ordered the criminal inquiry that led to Morandi's arrest, trial, and death in prison, probably by assassination." "Based on new evidence, this book chronicles Morandi's fabulous rise and fall against the backdrop of enormous political and cultural turmoil that characterized Italy in the early seventeenth century. It documents a world in which occult knowledge commanded power, reveals widespread libertinism behind monastery walls, and illuminates the arduous metamorphosis of intellectual culture already underway. It also sets the stage for, and lends new understanding to, the trial of Galileo."--Jacket.
Astrology --- Astrologers --- History --- Morandi, Orazio. --- Morandi, Orazio --- Morandi, Orazio, --- Italy. --- Europe. --- Italy --- Europe --- Intellectual life --- Abenragel. --- Accademia degli Incogniti. --- Akerman, Susanna. --- Ammirato, Scipione. --- Barberini family. --- Bernini, Domenico. --- Bettolìi, Giambattista. --- Campori, G. --- Caracciolo, Alberto. --- Casaubon, Isaac. --- Cavallo family. --- Cerbu, Thomas. --- Clement VII (Pope). --- Corsini, Cardinal. --- Curry, Patrick. --- De Feo, Italo. --- De Mas, Enrico. --- Diodorus Siculus. --- Drake, Stillman. --- Epictetus. --- Eugenius IV (Pope). --- Farinacci, Prospero. --- Fragnito, Gigliola. --- Gabrieli, Giuseppe. --- Giovanni Gualberto (Saint). --- Girondo, Francesco. --- Great Schism. --- Guevara, Antonio de. --- Hagengruber, Ruth. --- Hammond, Frederick. --- Hodierna, Giambattista. --- Hubner, Wolfgang. --- Inghirami, Francesco. --- Jaffe, Irma. --- Jannaco, Carmine. --- Juventus. --- Key of Solomon. --- Kornmann, Heinrich. --- Kraus, Andreas. --- Lamponi, Ercole. --- Libavius, Andreas. --- Lipsius, Justus. --- Malaspina, Giambattista. --- Medici family. --- Mizaldus, Antonius. --- Nannini, Remigio. --- Nomantia (Raimondi). --- academies. --- alchemy. --- cabala. --- heliocentrism. --- imaginary manuscripts. --- lamblichus. --- natural philosophy.
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