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| 1. |  | Title: Jewish life in renaissance Italy Author: Bonfil, Roberto Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Renaissance History | European History Publisher's Description: With this heady exploration of time and space, rumors and silence, colors, tastes, and ideas, Robert Bonfil recreates the richness of Jewish life in Renaissance Italy. He also forces us to rethink conventional interpretations of the period, which feature terms like "assimilation" and "acculturation. . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: A Renaissance court: Milan under Galeazzo Maria Sforza Author: Lubkin, Gregory Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Renaissance History Publisher's Description: Ambitious, extravagant, progressive, and sexually notorious, Galeazzo Maria Sforza inherited the ducal throne of Milan in 1466, at the age of twenty-two. Although his reign ended tragically only ten years later, the young prince's court was a dynamic community where arts, policy making, and the pano . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Venice's hidden enemies: Italian heretics in a Renaissance city Author: Martin, John Jeffries Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | European History | Christianity | Renaissance History Publisher's Description: How could early modern Venice, a city renowned for its political freedom and social harmony, also have become a center of religious dissent and inquisitorial repression? To answer this question, John Martin develops an innovative approach that deftly connects social and cultural history. The result . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Selected letters of Alessandra Strozzi Author: Macinghi Strozzi, Alessandra 1407-1471 Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Renaissance History | Women's Studies | European Studies | Literature in Translation | Autobiography | European History | Letters Publisher's Description: The letters of Alessandra Strozzi provide a vivid and spirited portrayal of life in fifteenth-century Florence. Among the richest autobiographical materials to survive from the Italian Renaissance, the letters reveal a woman who fought stubbornly to preserve her family's property and position in adv . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: The Renaissance Bible: scholarship, sacrifice, and subjectivity  Author: Shuger, Debora K 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Religion | Literary Theory and Criticism | Renaissance History | Christianity | Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: This is the first book on the Renaissance Bible by an Anglo-American scholar in nearly fifty years. Not confined to a history of exegesis, it is instead a study of Renaissance culture - a culture whose central text was the Bible. Shuger explores, among other topics, the links between late medieval C . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Eating right in the Renaissance Author: Albala, Ken 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Food and Cooking | Renaissance History | History of Science | History of Food Publisher's Description: Eating right has been an obsession for longer than we think. Renaissance Europe had its own flourishing tradition of dietary advice. Then, as now, an industry of experts churned out diet books for an eager and concerned public. Providing a cornucopia of information on food and an intriguing account . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Orphans of Petrarch: poetry and theory in the Spanish Renaissance Author: Navarrete, Ignacio Enrique 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Poetry | Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: In Spain as elsewhere, Renaissance poets transformed the lyric tradition by using Petrarch as a source of poetic renewal. But political unity and military hegemony, coupled with a sense of cultural inferiority and an obsession with ethnic purity, made Spain different. Drawing on modern critical theo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Renaissance Paris: architecture and growth, 1475-1600 Author: Thomson, David 1912- Published: University of California Press, 1985 Subjects: Art | Architecture Publisher's Description: In the modern literature on Renaissance art and architecture, Paris has often been considered the Cinderella of the European capitals. The prestigious buildings that were erected soon after François I decided in 1528 to make Paris his residence have long since been lost. Thomson, however, restores t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Resistant structures: particularity, radicalism, and Renaissance texts Author: Strier, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Renaissance Literature | English Literature Publisher's Description: Taking Wittgenstein's "Don't think, but look" as his motto, Richard Strier argues against the application of a priori schemes to Renaissance (and all) texts. He argues for the possibility and desirability of rigorously attentive but "pre-theoretical" reading. His approach privileges particularity an . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: The rest is silence: death as annihilation in the English Renaissance Author: Watson, Robert N Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: How did the fear of death coexist with the promise of Christian afterlife in the culture and literature of the English Renaissance? Robert Watson exposes a sharp edge of blasphemous protest against mortality that runs through revenge plays such as The Spanish Tragedy and Hamlet , and through plays o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Knights at court: courtliness, chivalry, & courtesy from Ottonian Germany to the Italian Renaissance Author: Scaglione, Aldo D Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | European Literature | Medieval Studies | Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: Knights at Court is a grand tour and survey of manners, manhood, and court life in the Middle Ages, like no other in print. Composed on an epic canvas, this authoritative work traces the development of court culture and its various manifestations from the latter years of the Holy Roman Empire (ca. A . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Possessing nature: museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy Author: Findlen, Paula Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | History and Philosophy of Science | European History | Renaissance History Publisher's Description: In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. Yet fifty years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicated to the marvels of nature. Italian patricians, their curiosity fueled by new voyages of exploration and the humanist rediscovery of nature, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: How fascism ruled women: Italy, 1922-1945 Author: De Grazia, Victoria Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | European History | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Italy has been made; now we need to make the Italians," goes a familiar Italian saying. Mussolini was the first head of state to include women in this mandate. How the fascist dictatorship defined the place of women in modern Italy and how women experienced the Duce 's rule are the subjects of Victo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Fascist modernities: Italy, 1922-1945 Author: Ben-Ghiat, Ruth Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: European Studies | History | Intellectual History | European History Publisher's Description: Ruth Ben-Ghiat's innovative cultural history of Mussolini's dictatorship is a provocative discussion of the meanings of modernity in interwar Italy. Eloquent, pathbreaking, and deft in its use of a broad range of materials, this work argues that fascism appealed to many Italian intellectuals as a ne . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Trials of authorship: anterior forms and poetic reconstruction from Wyatt to Shakespeare Author: Crewe, Jonathan V Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature | Renaissance Literature | English Literature Publisher's Description: For more than a decade, the English Renaissance has been the scene of trial for the critical methodologies of deconstruction, feminism, new historicism, psychoanalytic poststructuralism, and cultural studies. Jonathan Crewe argues that the commitment in the prevailing criticism to innovation, transg . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: The houses of Roman Italy, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250: ritual, space, and decoration Author: Clarke, John R 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Classics | Art and Architecture | Architectural History | Art History Publisher's Description: In this richly illustrated book, art historian John R. Clarke helps us see the ancient Roman house "with Roman eyes." Clarke presents a range of houses, from tenements to villas, and shows us how enduring patterns of Roman wall decoration tellingly bear the cultural, religious, and social imprints o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Gasparo Contarini: Venice, Rome, and reform Author: Gleason, Elisabeth G Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Religion | Renaissance History | European History | Christianity Publisher's Description: Gasparo Contarini (1483-1542) was a major protagonist in the Counter-Reformation of the sixteenth century. A worldly Venetian patrician, he later became an ascetic advocate of Church reform and, as a Catholic cardinal, was sent to the important Colloquy of Regensburg. He failed in his mission to bri . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Loyola's acts: the rhetoric of the self Author: Boyle, Marjorie O'Rourke 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Renaissance History | Christianity | Rhetoric | Art History | Medieval History Publisher's Description: This revisionist view of Ignatius Loyola argues that his "autobiography" - until now taken to be a literal, documentary account - is in reality a work of rhetoric, a moral narrative that exploits the techniques of fiction. In radically reinterpreting this canonical text, our main source of informati . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Michelangelo's Last Judgment: the Renaissance response Author: Barnes, Bernadine Ann Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art Publisher's Description: In her analysis of Michelangelo's Last Judgment , Bernadine Barnes provides an original and stimulating view of this renowned fresco and of the audience for which it was created. Because Michelangelo is so often regarded as a nearly superhuman artistic genius, we tend to forget that his works were n . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: The view from Vesuvius: Italian culture and the southern question Author: Moe, Nelson 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: European Studies | European History | Intellectual History | Politics | European Literature Publisher's Description: The vexed relationship between the two parts of Italy, often referred to as the Southern Question, has shaped that nation's political, social, and cultural life throughout the twentieth century. But how did southern Italy become "the south," a place and people seen as different from and inferior to . . . [more] Similar Items |