The Renaissance of Letters - 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 Renaissance of Letters write by Paula Findlen. This book was released on 2019-10-21. The Renaissance of Letters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Renaissance of Letters traces the multiplication of letter-writing practices between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries in the Italian peninsula and beyond to explore the importance of letters as a crucial document for understanding the Italian Renaissance. This edited collection contains case studies, ranging from the late medieval re-emergence of letter-writing to the mid-seventeenth century, that offer a comprehensive analysis of the different dimensions of late medieval and Renaissance letters—literary, commercial, political, religious, cultural, social, and military—which transformed them into powerful early modern tools. The Renaissance was an era that put letters into the hands of many kinds of people, inspiring them to see reading, writing, receiving, and sending letters as an essential feature of their identity. The authors take a fresh look at the correspondence of some of the most important humanists of the Italian Renaissance, including Niccolò Machiavelli and Isabella d'Este, and consider the use of letters for others such as merchants and physicians. This book is essential reading for scholars and students of Early Modern History and Literature, Renaissance Studies, and Italian Studies. The engagement with essential primary sources renders this book an indispensable tool for those teaching seminars on Renaissance history and literature.
Letterwriting in Renaissance England
Letterwriting in Renaissance England - 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 Letterwriting in Renaissance England write by Folger Shakespeare Library. This book was released on 2004. Letterwriting in Renaissance England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reproduces in full size and transcribes a number of letters from the early sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries
Medieval and Renaissance Letter Treatises and Form Letters
Medieval and Renaissance Letter Treatises and Form Letters - 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 Medieval and Renaissance Letter Treatises and Form Letters write by Emil J. Polak. This book was released on 2015-02-11. Medieval and Renaissance Letter Treatises and Form Letters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Letter writing was the major branch of rhetoric in the High Middle Ages (ars dictaminis) and Renaissance (ars epistolandi). As the primary source of discourse it played major roles in the history of education, the Latin language and literature, and its relation to grammar and oratory (ars arengandi). The letters are also a very rich source ranging from Church and State correspondence to social hierarchies and fiction. Several hundred authors, recognized as precursors of the Humanists, produced treatises, manuals, formularies and model letter collections found in a few thousand largely unstudied manuscripts. This is the third and final volume of the Medieval and Renaissance Letter Treatises and Form Letters, a singular reference work, a manuscript inventory of texts, most of which were examined in situ by Emil J. Polak in almost nine-hundred libraries and archives. The repertory is arranged alphabetically by country and city with standard details for each manuscript. Four indexes conclude the work.
A Corresponding Renaissance
A Corresponding Renaissance - 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 A Corresponding Renaissance write by Lisa Kaborycha. This book was released on 2016. A Corresponding Renaissance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Women's vibrant presence in the Italian Renaissance has long been overlooked, with attention focused mainly on the artistic and intellectual achievements of their male counterparts. During this period, however, Italian women excelled especially as writers, and nowhere were they more expressive than in their letters. In A Corresponding Renaissance: Letters Written by Italian Women, 1375-1650 Lisa Kaborycha considers the lives and cultural contributions revealed by these women in their own words, through their correspondence. By turns highly personal, didactic, or devotional, these letters expose the daily realities of women's lives and their feelings, ideas, and reactions to the complex world in which they lived. Through their letters women emerge not merely as bystanders, but as true cultural protagonists in the Italian Renaissance. A Corresponding Renaissance is divided into eight thematic chapters, featuring fifty-five letters that are newly translated into English-many for the first time ever. Each of the letters is annotated and includes a brief biographical introduction and bibliographic references. The women come from all walks of life--saints, poets, courtesans and countesses--and from every geographic area of Italy; chronologically they span the entire Renaissance, with the majority representing the sixteenth century. Approximately one third of the selections are well-known letters, such as those of Catherine of Siena, Veronica Franco, and Isabella d'Este; the rest are lesser known, previously un-translated, or otherwise inaccessible.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature - 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 Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature write by C. S. Lewis. This book was released on 2013-11-07. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An invaluable collection for those who read and love Lewis and medieval and Renaissance literature.
