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| 21. |  | Title: City culture and the madrigal at Venice  Author: Feldman, Martha Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Music | Musicology | European History Publisher's Description: Martha Feldman's exploration of sixteenth-century Venetian madrigals centers on the importance to the Venetians of Ciceronian rhetorical norms, which emphasized decorum through adherence to distinct stylistic levels. She shows that Venice easily adapted these norms to its long-standing mythologies o . . . [more] Matches in book (4): ...Caccini detto Romano sopra la musica antica, e'l cantar bene." In Gio. Batista... Similar Items...Vincenzo. Dialogo della musica antica, et della moderna. Florence, 1581. Facs.... ...own sonnet, "Questo del nostro lito antica sponda, / Che te, Venezia, copre e... |
| 22. |  | Title: Opera in seventeenth-century Venice: the creation of a genre Author: Rosand, Ellen Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Music | Musicology | Opera | European History Publisher's Description: Ellen Rosand shows how opera, born of courtly entertainment, took root in the special social and economic environment of seventeenth-century Venice and there developed the stylistic and aesthetic characteristics we recognize as opera today. With ninety-one music examples, most of them complete piece . . . [more] Matches in book (4): ...1987. ———. "Falsirena e la più antica delle cavatine." Collectanea historiae... Similar Items...directives in Martello's Della tragedia antica e moderna , trans. Weiss, "Pier... ...Jacopo Martello (see his Della tragedia antica e moderna [Rome, 1715], "Sessione... |
| 23. |  | Title: Strangers at home: Jews in the Italian literary imagination Author: Gunzberg, Lynn M Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: Using popular literature as a window on Italian society and its values, Lynn Gunzberg explores the representation of Jews in novels and poetry written by non-Jews from the beginning of the Risorgimento in the early 1800s to the enactment of the Fascist racial laws in 1938. She shows how the literatu . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...existed. Mussolini 1 Erano due razze in antica tensione. (They were of two races... Similar Items...the Pope of the . . . legge antica più der Culiseo, Che porti lo sciamanno ... ...La schiava ebrea. Scene di Roma antica (Rome, 1875), La falsa mendicante, and... |
| 24. |  | Title: Encomium of Ptolemy Philadelphus Author: Theocritus Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Poetry Publisher's Description: Under Ptolemy II Philadelphus, who ruled Egypt in the middle of the third century B.C.E., Alexandria became the brilliant multicultural capital of the Greek world. Theocritus's poem in praise of Philadelphus - at once a Greek king and an Egyptian pharaoh - is the only extended poetic tribute to this . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...In Lo spazio letterario della Grecia antica , edited by G. Cambiano, L. Canfora,... Similar Items...Heerwesen. In Egitto e storia antica dall'ellenismo all'età araba , edited by L.... |
| 25. |  | Title: Subtle bodies: representing angels in Byzantium Author: Peers, Glenn Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Art | Medieval Studies | Art History | Christianity | Art and Architecture Publisher's Description: Throughout the course of Byzantine history, Christian doctrine taught that angels have a powerful place in cosmology. It also taught that angels were immaterial, bodiless, invisible beings. But if that were the case, how could they be visualized and depicted in icons and other works of art? This boo . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...sarcophagus from the via Aurelia Antica now in the Palazzo dei Conservatori,... Similar Items...the sarcophagus from the via Aurelia Antica, laud the achievements of the Figure... |
| 26. |  | Title: A new world in a small place: church and religion in the Diocese of Rieti, 1188-1378 Author: Brentano, Robert 1926- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Religion | Christianity | European History | Medieval History | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Distinguished historian Robert Brentano provides an entirely new perspective on the character of the church, religion, and society in the medieval Italian diocese of Rieti from 1188 to 1378. Combing through a cache of previously ignored documents stored in a tower of the cathedral, he uses wills, li . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...99 (reprinted as Biblioteca istorica della antica e nuova Italia, no. 80, Forni,... Similar Items...Ricerche di topografia medioevale ed antica. Perugia, 1910. Comet, Georges. "Le... |
| 27. |  | Title: The Question of "eclecticism": studies in later Greek philosophy Author: Dillon, John M Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Classics | Classical Philosophy | Social and Political Thought Publisher's Description: This collection of essays is addressed to the growing number of philosophers, classicists, and intellectual historians who are interested in the development of Greek thought after Aristotle. In nine original studies, the authors explore the meaning and history of "eclecticism" in the context of anci . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...scuole l'anima l'impero: la filosofia antica da Antioco a Plotino [Turin, 1982],... Similar Items...Le scuole l'anima l'impero: la filosofia antica da Antioco a Plotino (1982), and... ...e dossografia nella filosofia antica (Turin, 1986), 203-26. On the De genio... |
| 28. |  | Title: The Cynics: the cynic movement in antiquity and its legacy Author: Branham, Robert Bracht Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Social and Political Thought | Religion | Ancient History Publisher's Description: This collection of essays - the first of its kind in English - brings together the work of an international group of scholars examining the entire tradition associated with the ancient Cynics. The essays give a history of the movement as well as a state-of-the-art account of the literary, philosophi . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...1933), Scritti minori di filosofia antica , Elenchos suppl. 10 (Naples 1984),... Similar Items...Dione Crisostomo nella cultura antica e bizantina , Elenchos Suppl. 11 (Naples... ...in Scritti minori di filosofia antica , ed. G. Giannantoni (Naples 1984), 395–... |
| 29. |  | Title: From popular sovereignty to the sovereignty of law: law, society, and politics in fifth-century Athens Author: Ostwald, Martin 1922- Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Classics | Classics | Classical History | Classical Politics Publisher's Description: Analyzing the "democratic" features and institutions of the Athenian democracy in the fifth century B.C., Martin Ostwald traces their development from Solon's judicial reforms to the flowering of popular sovereignty, when the people assumed the right both to enact all legislation and to hold magistr . . . [more] Matches in book (4): ...Pubblicazioni dell'Istituto di Storia Antica 8. Rome, 1970. Gilbert, G. Beitäge... Similar Items...Pubblicazioni dell'Istituto di Storia Antica 12. Rome, 1975. Saunders, T.J. "... ...Pubblicazioni dell'Istituto di Storia Antica 8 (Rome, 1970) 43-73; A. Mele, "La... |
| 30. |  | Title: Polyeideia: the Iambi of Callimachus and the archaic Iambic tradition Author: Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Poetry Publisher's Description: This book provides a new literary treatment of an often-overlooked collection of fragmentary poems from the third century B.C.E. Alexandrian poet Callimachus. Callimachus' Iambi form a collection of thirteen poems, which rework archaic Greek iambography and look forward to Roman satire and other gen . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...La Struttura della fabulazione antica . Pubblicazioni dell'Istituto di Filologia... Similar Items...Lo spazio letterario della Grecia antica . Edited by G. Cambiano, D. Canfora,... ...La struttura della fabulazione antica (Pubblicazioni dell'Istituto di Filologia... |
| 31. |  | Title: Plato's Parmenides Author: Plato Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics | Philosophy | Classical Philosophy Publisher's Description: Of all Plato's dialogues, the Parmenides is notoriously the most difficult to interpret. Scholars of all periods have disagreed about its aims and subject matter. The interpretations have ranged from reading the dialogue as an introduction to the whole of Platonic metaphysics to seeing it as a colle . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...e dossografia nellafilosofia antica , ed. Giuseppe Cambiano , pp. 1–59 . Turin :... Similar Items...di Testi e Studi di Filosofia Antica , vol. 10 . Naples : Loffredo . Chen,... |
| 32. |  | Title: Rome and the enemy: imperial strategy in the principate Author: Mattern, Susan P 1966- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Classical Politics | Classical Literature and Language | Military History | Ancient History Publisher's Description: How did the Romans build and maintain one of the most powerful and stable empires in the history of the world? This illuminating book draws on the literature, especially the historiography, composed by the members of the elite who conducted Roman foreign affairs. From this evidence, Susan P. Mattern . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...La mappa e il periplo: Cartografia antica e spazio odologico . Rome : L'Erma di... Similar Items |
| 33. |  | Title: Warriors into traders: the power of the market in early Greece Author: Tandy, David W Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics | Ancient History | Classical History | Economics and Business | Anthropology | Politics Publisher's Description: The eighth century dawned on a Greek world that had remained substantially unchanged during the centuries of stagnation known as the Dark Age. This book is a study of the economic and cultural upheaval that shook mainland Greece and the Aegean area in the eighth century, and the role that poetry pla . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...ideologie e società nella Grecia antica . Rome: Edizioni dell' Ateneo. Crawford.... Similar Items...1966. Distribuzioni di terre nell' antica Grecia . Classe Morali, 4 th ser. ,... |
| 34. |  | Title: Reading Sappho: contemporary approaches Author: Greene, Ellen 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Literary Theory and Criticism | Poetry Publisher's Description: Reading Sappho considers Sappho's poetry as a powerful, influential voice in the Western cultural tradition. Essays are divided into four sections: "Language and Literary Context," "Homer and Oral Tradition", "Ritual and Social Context", and "Women's Erotics". Contributors focus on literary history, . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...Poesia e pubblico nella Grecia antica da Omero al V secolo . Rome: Laterza,... Similar Items...M. , ed. Poesia e simposio nella Grecia antica: guida storica e critica . Rome:... |
| 35. |  | Title: Symeon the holy fool: Leontius's Life and the late antique city Author: Krueger, Derek Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion | Literature | Christianity | Classics | Classical Religions Publisher's Description: This first English translation of Leontius of Neapolis's Life of Symeon the Fool brings to life one of the most colorful of early Christian saints. In this study of a major hagiographer at work, Krueger fleshes out a broad picture of the religious, intellectual, and social environment in which the L . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...Dione Crisostomo nella cultura antica e bizantina (Rome: Bibliopolis, 1986). On... Similar Items...Dione Crisostomo nella cultura antica e bizantina . Rome: Bibliopolis, 1986.... |
| 36. |  | Title: Time and the crystal: studies in Dante's Rime petrose Author: Durling, Robert M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature | European Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: The Rime petrose , Dante's powerful lyrics about a woman as beautiful and as hard as a precious stone, are generally acknowledged to be an important moment in his stylistic development. In this first full-length investigation of the poetics of the petrose and of their relation to the Divine Comedy , . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...sull'Alto Medioevo 22 ("La cultura antica nell'occidente latino dal VII all' XI... Similar Items...old self ("vincer parìemi più sé stessa antica," 31.83), seems also to mark her... ...and chaste "nella sua cerchia antica" and the cradles ( le culle ) carefully... |
| 37. |  | Title: Bronzino's Chapel of Eleonora in the Palazzo Vecchio Author: Cox-Rearick, Janet Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Art | Art History Publisher's Description: Do the sacred decorations of a Florentine Renaissance chapel - saints, symbols, and scriptural stories - hold personal and political meanings? Cox-Rearick's ground-breaking book explores the message hidden in the frescoes and altar panels of the Chapel of Eleonora di Toledo, painted in the early 154 . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...of it, Firenze 1539 , Centro Musica Antica di Ginevra, Studio di Musica... Similar Items...97. 60. See, for example, Firenze antica e moderna illustrata , Florence, 1794,... |
| 38. |  | Title: The revolutions of wisdom: studies in the claims and practice of ancient Greek science Author: Lloyd, G. E. R. (Geoffrey Ernest Richard) 1933- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Classics | Classical History Publisher's Description: G.E.R. Lloyd's wide-ranging and historical study of the development of Greek science is a valuable contribution to current debates in the philosophy of language, on the analysis of scientific revolutions, and the rationality of science. Matches in book (2): ...1966. "Tendenza e probabilità nell' antica medicina greca." Critica Storica 5:... Similar Items...negli scritti ippocratici dell' antica ginecologia greca." In Grmek, ed. , 1980,... |
| 39. |  | Title: Dynasty and empire in the age of Augustus: the case of the of the Boscoreale Cups Author: Kuttner, Ann L Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art | Art History | Classical History | Ancient History Publisher's Description: The two silver skyphoi commonly known as the Boscoreale Cups of Augustus and Tiberius are indispensable for providing the documentation of one of the only two cycles of Roman imperial state reliefs to survive from the Julio-Claudian period. Ann Kuttner offers the first comprehensive examination of t . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...nelle sede parigine." In Forma: La città antica e il suo avvenire, 36–43. Rome.... Similar Items...by G. B. Piranesi, Il Campo Marzio di antica Roma (1762). Photograph courtesy of... |
| 40. |  | Title: The shadows of poetry: Vergil in the mind of Augustine Author: MacCormack, Sabine Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Ancient History | Christianity | Poetry Publisher's Description: Imperial ceremony was a vital form of self-expression for late antique society. Sabine MacCormack examines the ceremonies of imperial arrivals, funerals, and coronations from the late third to the late sixth centuries A.D., as manifest in the official literature and art of the time. Her study offers . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...la storia della filologia Virgiliana antica . Rome 1986. Tracy, S. V. "Laoocon's... Similar Items...la storia della filolgia Virgiliana antica . curiosity. Instead, it helped to... |