The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello write by Margaret L. King. This book was released on 1994. The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello
The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello write by Margaret L. King. This book was released on 2009-05-15. The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Margaret King shows what the death of a little boy named Valerio Marcello over five hundred years ago can tell us about his time. This child, scion of a family of power and privilege at Venice's time of greatness, left his father in a state of despair so profound and so public that it occasioned an outpouring of consoling letters, orations, treatises, and poems. In these documents, we find a firsthand account, richly colored by humanist conventions and expectations, of the life of the fifteenth-century boy, the passionate devotion of his father, the feelings of his brothers and sisters, the striking absence of his mother. The father's story is here as well: the career of a Venetian nobleman and scholar, patron and soldier, a participant in Venice's struggle for dominion in the north of Italy. Through these sources also King traces the cultural trends that made Marcello's century famous. Her work enlarges our view of the literature of consolation, which had a distinctive tradition in Venice, and shifting attitudes toward death from the late Middle Ages onward. For the depth and acuity of its insights into political, cultural, and private life in fifteenth-century Venice, this book will be essential reading for students of the Renaissance. For the grace and drama of its storytelling, it will be savored by anyone who wishes to look into life and death in a palace, and a city, long ago.
Florence and Beyond
Florence and Beyond - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Florence and Beyond write by John M. Najemy. This book was released on 2008. Florence and Beyond available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume celebrates John M. Najemy and his contributions to the study of Florentine and Italian Renaissance history. Over the last three decades, his books and articles on Florentine politics and political thought have substantially revised the narratives and contours of these fields. They have also provided a framework into which he has woven innovative new threads that have emerged in Renaissance social and cultural history. Presented by his many students and friends, the essays aim to highlight his varied interests and to suggest where they may point for future studies of Florence and, indeed, beyond. -- Amazon.com.
The Politics of Culture in Quattrocento Europe
The Politics of Culture in Quattrocento Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Culture in Quattrocento Europe write by Oren Margolis. This book was released on 2016-05-06. The Politics of Culture in Quattrocento Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The poet-king without a throne appears here in an entirely new light. In The Politics of Culture in Quattrocento Europe: René of Anjou in Italy, Oren Margolis explores how this French prince and exiled king of Naples (1409-1480) engaged his Italian network in a programme of cultural politics conducted with an eye towards a return to power in the peninsula. Built on a series of original interpretations of humanistic and artistic material (chiefly Latin orations and illuminated manuscripts of classical texts), this is also a case study for a 'diplomatic approach' to culture. It recasts its source base as a form of high-level communication for a hyper-literate elite of those who could read the works created by humanist and artistic agents for their constituent parts: the potent words or phrases and relevant classical allusions; the channels through which a given work was commissioned or transmitted; and then the nature of the network gathered around a political agenda. This is a volume for all those interested in the politics and culture of later medieval Europe and Renaissance Italy: the kings of France and dukes of Burgundy, the Medici, the Sforza, the Venetians, and their armies, ambassadors, and adversaries all appear here; so do Giovanni Bellini, Andrea Mantegna, Guarino of Verona, and their respective intellectual and artistic circles. Emerging from it is a challenge to conventional interpretations of the politics of humanism, and a new vision of the Quattrocento: a century in which the Italian Renaissance began its takeover of Europe, but in which Renaissance culture was itself shaped by its European political, social, and diplomatic context.
Venice: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
Venice: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Venice: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide write by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-01. Venice: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated related. This ebook is a static version of an article from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Renaissance and Reformation, a dynamic, continuously updated, online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of European history and culture between the 14th and 17th centuries. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.oxfordbibliographies.com.
