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Florence Price: The Hidden Pioneer of Imposed Simplicity
Florence Price is commonly described as a late-Romantic composer. This dissertation seeks to reposition her as a modernist through the lens of imposed simplicity. Imposed simplicity is a term Aaron Copland used to describe many of his own works composed in the 1930s and 1940s. Using the framework …
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Domenico Veneziano and his public commissions in Florence
… chapter on Veneziano’s education and arrival in Florence. The following four chapters each deal with one of his public commissions. Chapter 2 addresses the fresco cycle in the main chapel of Sant’Egidio, the church of the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova. The third chapter focuses on the Carnesecchi …
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An Alternate Antiquity: The Etruscans in Renaissance Florence and Rome
… in ancient Etruria was widespread in Renaissance Florence, where a local tradition connected the city's origins to the Etruscan city Fiesole. Florentine authors, from the early chroniclers of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries to the Renaissance scholars Leonardo Bruni, Leon Battista Alberti, …
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Mapping the Cine-Metrololis: Re-defining festival in early modern Florence
Festivals were politically complex events that achieved remarkable feats of artistic virtuosity and scenographic engineering on the early modern stage. Creating a sophisticated system of cultural codes and symbols, they became the most effective vehicle for the expression of imperial and civic …
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Libertas Reborn: A Legend of Florence and Leigh Hunt's Literary Revival
… Romantic figures, wrote and staged A Legend of Florence (1840) in an attempt to stimulate a literary revival. Hunt's play reasserts the radical philosophies that defined his younger days, when as the central figure of the "Cockney School" he had drawn other radical writers such as Keats and …
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Mi naqui: Birth and infancy in late medieval and Renaissance Florence
Using information from the ricordanze, the diary-like account books of the Florentine merchant and ruling elite, letters, humanists' and moralists' tracts on the family, and contemporary literature, this dissertation examines Florentine attitudes and behavior regarding birth and infancy from …
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Whisperers, feasts and Florence Nightingales : a collection of narrative literary journalism
Whisperers, Feasts and Florence Nightingales: A Collection of Narrative LiteraryJournalism comprises three pieces of narrative literary journalism and one essay oftheoretical analysis.
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Vincenzo Danti and the Medici court : constructing professional identity in late Renaissance Florence
… Perugian by birth and training, relocated to Florence in 1557 to work for the Medici court. While there, Danti completed visual and textual works oriented to the interests of Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici (1519-1574) and his son, Prince Francesco (1541-1587). Danti also participated in the literary …
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47 Via Ricasoli, Florence, an English Translation of the Novel By Thierry Laget
… turn. In an old bookstore on the Via Ricasoli in Florence, Italy, Thomas discovers an unknown poem of Poppet's, printed in 1924, with a dedication autographed by the author . . . It is there, too, that he meets Martha and begins an odyssey through a maze of contradictions and missteps with tragic …
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Masculinity, Arms and Armour, and the Culture of Warfare in Sixteenth-Century Florence
… cultural role of arms and armour in Cinquecento Florence, roughly spanning the reigns of Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici and his two sons Francesco I and Ferdinando I, 1537-1609. My study primarily draws on records from the Otto di Guardia e Balia, the magistracy responsible for handling judicial and …
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Neighbourhood and Identity in Renaissance Florence: Artistic Patronage at Santa Trinita and San Pancrazio
This thesis considers works of art – broadly defined to include altarpieces, sculptures, frescoes, tombs, and liturgical furnishings – commissioned for the two Florentine, Vallombrosan churches of Santa Trinita and San Pancrazio, specifically in light of the geographical proximity of these two …
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Accounting for disaster : small business recovery in North Carolina after Hurricanes Matthew and Florence
… homes and businesses. Two years later, Hurricane Florence interrupted the state's recovery, precipitating even greater damage. Little academic work focuses on the state's recovery from the two storms, and none to date tracks the recovery of its small businesses. These businesses are important …
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The short-form choral works of Florence B. Price: compelling music for a range of choirs
… was to promote the short-form choral works of Florence B. Price (1887-1953) as compelling music for study and performance by high school choirs, collegiate choirs, and community choirs with intermediate and advanced ability levels. The presentation and supporting document organized the music on …
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Images for the bride: the Chastelaine de Vergi fresco cycle in the Palazzo Davanzati in Florence
This thesis addresses The Chastelaine de Vergi fresco cycle in the Palazzo Davanzati, and how it communicated proper marital behavior expected of a fourteenth-century aristocratic Florentine newlywed bride and wife. In this case, the fresco was commissioned by Tomasso Davizzi upon the event of …
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Performing the Canadian "Mosaic": Juliette Gauthier, Florence Glenn, and the CPR Festivals of Quebec City
… and performers, including Juliette Gauthier and Florence Glenn. An analysis of specific performances at the CPR festivals and over the course of Glenn and Gauthier’s respective careers showcase how racialized attitudes towards Indigenous populations, and the static conceptualization of …
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