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Vesuvius, campi flegrei, and campanian volcanism
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ISBN: 0128175184 0128164549 9780128164549 9780128175187 Year: 2020 Publisher: Amsterdam, Netherlands : Elsevier,

Renaissance Comedy
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ISBN: 144268898X 9781442688988 9780802092922 0802092926 9780802094841 0802094848 0802097235 9780802097231 9780802099990 0802099998 9781442697386 1442697385 1442691743 1442661836 Year: 2011 Publisher: Toronto

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A rich and multi-faceted aspect of the Italian Renaissance, the comedy has been largely overlooked as a cultural force during the period. In Renaissance Comedy, editor Donald Beecher corrects this oversight with a collection of eleven comedies representative of the principal styles of writing that define the genre. Proceeding from early, ?erudite? imitations of Plautus and Terence to satires, sentimental plays of the middle years, and later, more experimental works, the development of Italian Renaissance comedy is here dissected in a fascinating and vivid light.This first of two volumes boasts five of the best-known plays of the period, each with its own historical and critical introduction. Also included is a general introduction by the editor, which discusses the features of Italian Renaissance comedy, as well as examines the stage histories of the plays and what little is known, in many cases, of the circumstances surrounding their original performances. The introduction raises questions concerning the nature of audiences, the festival occasions during which the plays were performed, and the academies which sponsored many of their creations.As a much-needed reappraisal of these comedic plays, Renaissance Comedy is an invaluable look at the performance history of the Renaissance and Italian culture in general.

Il riposo
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ISBN: 1442688297 9781442688292 9780802097439 080209743X 1442692294 Year: 2007 Publisher: Toronto, Ont. University of Toronto Press

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Raffaello Borghini's Il Riposo (1584) is the most widely known Florentine document on the subject of the Counter-Reformation content of religious paintings. Despite its reputation as an art-historical text, this is the first English-language translation of Il Riposo to be published. A distillation of the art gossip that was a feature of the Medici Grand Ducal court, Borghini's treatise puts forth simple criteria for judging the quality of a work of art. Published sixteen years after the second edition of Giorgio Vasari's Vite, the text that set the standard for art-historical writing during the period, Il Riposo focuses on important issues that Vasari avoided, ignored, or was oblivious to. Picking up where Vasari left off, Borghini deals with artists who came after Michaelangelo and provides more comprehensive descriptions of artists who Vasari only touched upon such as Tintoretto, Veronese, Barocci, and the artists of Francesco I's Studiolo. This text is also invaluable as a description of the mid-sixteenth century reaction against the style of the 'maniera,' which stressed the representation of self-consciously convoluted figures in complicated works of art.The first art treatise specifically directed toward non-practitioners, Il Riposo gives unique insight into the early stages of art history as a discipline, late Renaissance art and theory, and the Counter-Reformation in Italy.


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The Pleasant Nights - Volume 2
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ISBN: 1442699531 9781442699533 144269954X Year: 2012 Publisher: Toronto


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Peasants, citizens and soldiers
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ISBN: 9781107013186 9781107519121 1107013186 9781139003834 1107311969 1107519128 1139003836 1107308615 1107305543 110731416X 1107306418 1299257216 1107234883 1107301335 9781107314160 9781299257214 9781107306417 9781107234888 9781107301337 9781107305540 9781107308619 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Recent years have witnessed an intense debate concerning the size of the population of Roman Italy. This book argues that the combined literary, epigraphic and archaeological evidence supports the theory that early-imperial Italy had about six million inhabitants. At the same time the traditional view that the last century of the Republic witnessed a decline in the free Italian population is shown to be untenable. The main foci of its six chapters are: military participation rates; demographic recovery after the Second Punic War; the spread of slavery and the background to the Gracchan land reforms; the fast expansion of Italian towns after the Social War; emigration from Italy; and the fate of the Italian population during the first 150 years of the Principate.

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Italy --- Rome --- Italie --- Population --- History. --- History --- Histoire --- Ancient --- General. --- Arts and Humanities --- Repubblica italiana (1946- ) --- Italian Republic (1946- ) --- Włochy --- Regno d'Italia (1861-1946) --- Iṭalyah --- Italia --- Italien --- Italii︠a︡ --- Kgl. Italienische Regierung --- Königliche Italienische Regierung --- إيطاليا --- Īṭāliyā --- جمهورية الإيطالية --- Jumhūrīyah al-Īṭālīyah --- Італія --- Італьянская Рэспубліка --- Italʹi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Италия --- Италианска република --- Italianska republika --- Ιταλία --- Ιταλική Δημοκρατία --- Italikē Dēmokratia --- 이탈리아 --- It'allia --- 이탈리아 공화국 --- It'allia Konghwaguk --- איטליה --- רפובליקה האיטלקית --- Republiḳah ha-Iṭalḳit --- Lýðveldið Ítalía --- Itālija --- Itālijas Republika --- Italijos Respublika --- Olaszország --- Olasz Köztársaság --- イタリア --- Itaria --- イタリア共和国 --- Itaria Kyōwakoku --- Italiya Respublikasi --- Италия Республикаси --- Italii︠a︡ Respublikasi --- Итальянская Республика --- Італійська Республіка --- Italiĭsʹka Respublika --- İtalya --- İtalya Cumhuriyeti --- איטאליע --- Iṭalye --- 意大利 --- Yidali --- 意大利共和国 --- Yidali Gongheguo --- Laško --- Sardinia (Italy) --- Італійська Республіка


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Laboratoire Italien
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ISSN: 21174970 16279204

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Laboratoire italien se propose de constituer un lieu de réflexion et de débat pour quiconque s’intéresse à l’Italie en tant que laboratoire politique. Postuler un « laboratoire politique » italien signifie considérer l’Italie, dans sa pluralité et diversité, du Moyen Âge à nos jours, comme un lieu de réalisations et de réflexions politiques spécifiques qui ont pu avoir quelque importance au-delà des frontières de la péninsule. Concevoir l’Italie comme un « laboratoire » signifie aussi, sur le plan de la méthode, promouvoir des analyses fondées sur des expériences autant que sur des textes et des concepts. Il ne s’agit donc pas seulement de faire dialoguer les auteurs mais de les inscrire dans l’histoire brûlante de leur cité et, tout à la fois, dans les traditions textuelles – juridique, littéraire, philosophique, etc. – qu’ils modifient ou enrichissent, de donner de la vie à leurs mots et de les replacer dans le champ des objectifs qu’ils servent et des enjeux qu’ils dévoilent.

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