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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Seventeenth-century Italy"”.
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Making and Marketing a Theatre Couple in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Giovan Battista Andreini and Virginia Ramponi
… 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 considered as a …
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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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The (un)Natural Baroque: Giambattista Marino and Monteverdi's Late Madrigals
The early decades of the seventeenth century saw an important aesthetic shift in Italian secular music. The madrigals of Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) have often been seen to bridge the gap between the Renaissance and the Baroque since they introduced instrumental writing and operatic elements …