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  • Food Culture and Literary Imagination in Early Modern Italy

    The Renaissance of Taste

    by Laura Giannetti ...
    Series series Food Culture, Food History before 1900
    As the long sixteenth century came to a close, new positive ideas of gusto/ taste opened a rich counter vision of food and taste where material practice, sensory perceptions and imagination contended with traditional social values, morality, and dietetic/medical discourse. Exploring the complex and evocative ways the early modern Italian culture of food was imagined in the literature of the time, ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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  • The Honest Courtesan

    Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice

    by Margaret F. Rosenthal ...
    The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to make of the cortigiana onesta—the honest courtesan who recast virtue as intellectual integrity and offered wit and refinement in return for patronage and a place in public life? Veronica Franco (1546-1591) was such a woman, a writer and citizen of Venice, ... Read more

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  • Don Camillo Stories of Giovannino Guareschi

    A Humorist Potrays the Sacred

    by Alan R. Perry ...
    Giovannino Guareschi (1908-1968) was an Italian journalist, humorist, and cartoonist best known for his short stories based on the fictional Catholic priest Don Camillo. In this study, Alan R. Perry explores the Don Camillo stories from the perspective of Christian hermeneutics, a unique approach and the best critical key to unlocking the richness of both the author and his tales.The stories of ... Read more

    $62.39 CAD

  • Matera from the Sassi to the new city

    by Enzo Montemurro ...
    Guide - Matera from the Sassi to the new cityThere have been many guides and illustrated books about the Sassi of Matera. Some are estimable products of studies and researches that describe the birth and the evolution of the unique hamlet that the Sassi of Matera represent. This handbook, on the other hand, is not so ambitious as the others, and does not offer unpublished assertions on the origins ... Read more

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  • Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court

    Music and the Circulation of Power

    by Suzanne G. Cusick ...
    A "priceless" study of the life and career of the Renaissance-era Italian who was the first woman to have composed an opera ( Gender & History)."Extraordinary in its breadth, its detail, its insight, and its worth to all participants in early music…. Its contribution is not limited to the musical world, however, as Cusick's remarkable command and analysis of her material…has immense value for ... Read more

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  • Singing Games in Early Modern Italy

    The Music Books of Orazio Vecchi

    by Paul Schleuse ...
    Series series Music and the Early Modern Imagination
    In Italy during the late cinquecento, printed music could be found not only in the homes of the wealthy or the music professional, but also in lay homes, courts, and academies. No longer confined to the salons of the elite, music took on the role of social play and recreation. Paul Schleuse examines these new musical forms through a study of the music books of Italian priest, poet, and composer, ... Read more

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  • Pier Paolo Pasolini

    In Living Memory

    Edited by Ben Lawton, Maura Bergonzori ...
    A collection of essays discussing the famed Italian film director, writer, and intellectual.More than thirty years after the tragic death of Pier Paolo Pasolini, this volume is intended to acknowledge the significance of his living memory. His artistic and cultural production continues to be a fundamental reference point in any discourse on the state of the arts, and on contemporary political ... Read more

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  • Pasolini

    The Sacred Flesh

    by Stefania Benini ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    Poet, novelist, dramatist, polemicist, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini continues to be one of the most influential intellectuals of post-war Italy. In Pasolini: The Sacred Flesh, Stefania Benini examines his corporeal vision of the sacred, focusing on his immanent interpretation of the Christian doctrine of the Incarnation and the “sacred flesh” of Christ in both Passion and Death as the ... Read more

    $64.79 CAD

  • Boccaccio

    A Critical Guide to the Complete Works

    Edited by Victoria Kirkham,, Michael Sherberg, Janet Levarie Smarr ...
    Long celebrated as one of "the Three Crowns" of Florence, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–75) experimented widely with the forms of literature. His prolific and innovative writings—which range beyond the novella, from lyric to epic, from biography to mythography and geography, from pastoral and romance to invective—became powerful models for authors in Italy and across the Continent.This collection of ... Read more

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  • Forbidden Fashions

    Invisible Luxuries in Early Venetian Convents

    by Isabella Campagnol Fabretti ...
    Form-fitting dresses, silk veils, earrings, furs, high-heeled shoes, make-up, and dyed, flowing hair. It is difficult for a contemporary person to reconcile these elegant clothes and accessories with the image of cloistered nuns. For many of the some thousand nuns in early modern Venice, however, these fashions were the norm. Often locked in convents without any religious calling—simply to save ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy

    Edited by Jacqueline Murray, Nicholas Terpstra ...
    Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy explores the new directions being taken in the study of sex and gender in Italy from 1300 to 1700 and highlights the impact that recent scholarship has had in revealing innovative ways of approaching this subject.In this interdisciplinary volume, twelve scholars of history, literature, art history, and philosophy use a variety of both textual and ... Read more

    Was $92.99 CAD Now $82.44 CAD

  • Dante's Multitudes

    History, Philosophy, Method

    by Teodolinda Barolini ...
    Series series The William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature
    A critical addition to Dante studies that illuminates the poet’s disruptive impact within Italian culture and foregrounds Barolini’s marked contribution to the field.In Dante’s Multitudes, the newest addition to the renowned William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature, Teodolinda Barolini gathers sixteen of her essays exploring the revolutionary character of Dante ... Read more

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