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Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 216-236, April 2025.Abstract This article discusses the relationship between women and their garments by examining written, visual, and material sources about dress drawn from the historical records of the Malatesta family. The objective of this research is to understand whether women of this House had any degree of autonomy regarding the garments that they chose to ‘self‐
Elisa Tosi Brandi
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John Florio and Shakespeare: Life and Language [PDF]
, 2015 Investigations into the link between Shakespeare and John Florio stretch back to the mid eighteenth century when, in his edition of the plays (1747), William Warburton suggested that “by Holofernes is designed a particular character, a pedant and ...
Montini, Donatella
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Women Suppliers to Medieval Courts: Making Visible Ducal and Royal Power
Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 33-49, March 2025.Abstract This article analyses under‐studied women suppliers to medieval courts, with a focus on Burgundian and French courts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Through its archival research, it identifies over a hundred women involved in creating, supplying and repairing objects.
Katherine A. Wilson
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Della Porta: il mago dell'arcana sapienza [PDF]
, 2015 Una riflessione, a 400 anni dalla morte di Giovan Battista Della Porta Napoletano, uno dei grandi geni del ...
Del Giudice, Guido
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Giovanni Pontano hears the street soundscape of Naples
Renaissance Studies, Volume 38, Issue 4, Page 519-540, September 2024.Abstract Giovanni Pontano’s dialogue Antonius can be read almost as a thick description of the soundscape of a Neapolitan street in the mid‐ to late‐15th century, complete with public announcements, street performers, domestic arguments, workers’ banter, charms and spells, processions, errand boys, bells, clocks, cockerels, and much more.
Tim Shephard, Melany Rice
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, 2009 Questo volume propone un discorso critico sulla sessualità e sulla cultura visiva dell’Italia rinascimentale. I saggi raccolti tentano di fare luce su una serie di zone d’ombra, dando spazio a tutte quelle pratiche o preferenze considerate in genere come
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‘De voluptate aurium’: The sounds of heaven in a 1501 sensory treatise on the afterlife
Renaissance Studies, Volume 38, Issue 4, Page 595-629, September 2024.Abstract In his De gloria et gaudiis beatorum, printed in 1501, the clergyman Zaccaria Lilio explores a popular topic in the religious life of Renaissance Italy: what is heaven like and what kind of experience awaits the blessed there? And his answer represents a snapshot of a characteristic manner in which heaven was imagined in the period, both in ...
Laura Ștefănescu
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A question of genre: Philip Melanchthon's oratorical debut at Wittenberg University
Renaissance Studies, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 363-378, June 2024.Abstract The speech Philip Melanchthon gave on 29 August 1518 at the University of Wittenberg to initiate his professorship is an impressive piece of humanist idealism. Already its title, De corrigendis adolescentiae studiis (On the reform of the studies for the young) reveals his earnest ambitions in introducing reform.
Isabella Walser‐Bürgler
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The Birth of Tragedy in the Cinquecento: Humanism and Literary History [PDF]
, 2011 Humanist literary historians treated Aristotle’s ‘Poetics’ in a distinctive way: as a historical source. How had the Greek tragedy arisen, what was its relation to the comedy, and how was it performed?
Haugen, Kristine Louise
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 379-393, June 2024.Abstract In 2020 Renaissance Studies [34 (2020): 243–59] published an essay entitled “Lorenzo de' Medici and Inheritance Law in Florence,” discussing the use of legislation by Lorenzo de' Medici to advantage Carlo Borromei in inheritance from his uncle, to the disadvantage of his cousin, Beatrice, who was married to a Pazzi.
Thomas Kuehn
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