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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Early Modern Italy"”.
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Political Petrarchism: The Rhetorical Fashioning of Community in Early Modern Italy
… discourse of Francesco Petrarca's Italy. The first chapter examines Petrarch's treatment of Scipio Africanus as humanistic leader and idealized friend in the Africa. The second chapter proposes a reading of Cola di Rienzo as the first "political Petrarchist" and contextualizes his …
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Linguistic Prestige and Early Modern Italy: A Contribution to Historical Sociolinguistics
… of prestige in the context of sixteenth-century Italy, with reference to the dynamics which arose between Tuscans and non-Tuscan learners over the ownership and nature of the literary variety based on fourteenth-century Florentine that was being codified and promoted. The notion of prestige is …
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Artisans, Vendors, and Practitioners from the Eastern Mediterranean in Early Modern Italy
… production, experimentation, and innovation in early modern Italy, from the mid-sixteenth to the later seventeenth centuries. In recent years, scholars have explored the significance of cross-Mediterranean diplomacy and trade in shaping early modern European culture and recovered the …
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Speaking in Tones: Plainchant, Monody, and the Evocation of Antiquity in Early Modern Italy
… <i>Lamento d’Arianna</i>. Chant recitation was clearly a familiar model that could inform how to compose in the celebrated speech-like manner. As this dissertation demonstrates, chant and monody were also contiguous musical practices, united by imitation of ancient speech-like song. The evocation …
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Collaborative Painting Between Minds and Hands: Art Criticism, Connoisseurship, and Artistic Sodality in Early Modern Italy
… analysis by accessing the perspectives of early modern viewers. The Italian primary sources from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries yield a surprising amount of material indicating both common and changing habits of thought when viewers looked at multiple authorial hands working on …
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Making and Marketing a Theatre Couple in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Giovan Battista Andreini and Virginia Ramponi
… of two professional actors as a couple in early modern Italy. It examines the success achieved by Giovan Battista Andreini (1576-1654) and his wife Virginia Ramponi (1583-ca.1631) as a result of the self-representation and marketing strategies they devised and adopted. Their careers are …
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‘On account of high merits’: The portrait medals of Isabella d’Este and the image of the female collector
… among the most prominent female collectors in early modern Italy. While her collection of art and antiquities was quite large and diverse, this thesis focuses on a particularly unique object—her opulently embellished personal portrait medal. This gold and diamond encrusted medal was kept in …
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Practices of science and political economy between the State of Milan and the Italian Republic (1760s-1805)
This dissertation explores the intersection between scientific practices and political economy from the time of Maria Theresa's and Joseph II's reforms in the Habsburg State of Milan to the Cisalpina and Italian Republics. It is structured in four parts, corresponding to the themes of …
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Talking Statues: An Italian Communicative Phenomenon from the Renaissance to the Present Day
<p dir="ltr">During the sixteenth century, six public sculptures distributed throughout the urban fabric of Rome acquired a radically new purpose. The so-called ‘talking statues’ operated as customary sites for the affixion of anonymous satires, giving a voice to those aiming to express political …
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Contemporary History and Its Publics in Italy, 1640-1740
… the writing of contemporary history in Italy and the emergence of a reading public during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. In accordance with humanist conventions, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century historians were often retired statesmen, who addressed their …
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'Like Iron to a Magnet': Moses Hayim Luzzatto's Quest for Providence
… confederation of Italian pietists in northern Italy, beginning with Moses Zacut three generations earlier, who were unhappy with the values and goals of the Talmud-centered rabbinic establishment.</p> <p>In chapter four, I consider the nature of anti-Luzzatto sentiment that spread among rabbis …
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Material Prayers: The Use of Text in Early Modern Italian Domestic Devotions
While scholarship often focuses on how early modern Italians used images in their devotions, particularly in the post-Tridentine era, little attention has been placed upon how laypeople engaged with devotional text during times of prayer and in their everyday lives. Studies of early modern …