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Musica Franca
Twenty-four essays attest to D'Accone's wide interests and influence on several generations of musicologists. The first three sections-- on the Florentine Renaissance, archival studies, and madrigal and carnival song--deal with subjects central to his research. Subsequent contributions deal with various aspects of Italian opera, performance practice, manuscript studies, and music and image. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
La Città Universitaria della Sapienza di Roma e le sedi esterne 1907-1932
Questo volume rappresenta una prima parte del lavoro di ricerca che ha consentito di mettere a fuoco le vicende relative alle attività di programmazione e di progettazione per la realizzazione della “Nuova Città Universitaria” e delle nuove sedi esterne, di Scuole o Istituti universitari. A questo volume seguirà una seconda parte che affronterà diversi temi di ricerca riguardanti la realizzazione della città universitaria e dei suoi edifici, quali ad esempio la vicenda del progetto e della realizzazione del nuovo organismo universitario della “citta” piacentiniana, il progetto e la realizzazione del sistema del verde, lo studio degli edifici costruiti dentro la città universitaria e successivamente demoliti.
Mathematical Works Printed in the Americas, 1554–1700
This magisterial annotated bibliography of the earliest mathematical works to be printed in the New World challenges long-held assumptions about the earliest examples of American mathematical endeavor. Bruce Stanley Burdick brings together mathematical writings from Mexico, Lima, and the English colonies of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New York. The book provides important information such as author, printer, place of publication, and location of original copies of each of the works discussed. Burdick’s exhaustive research has unearthed numerous examples of books not previously cataloged as mathematical. While it was thought that no mathematical writings in English were printed in the ...
Netherlandish Books (NB) (2 Vols)
Netherlandish Books offers a unique overview of what was printed during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the Low Countries. This bibliography lists descriptions of over 32,000 editions together with an introduction and indexes.
Performance and Literature in the Commedia Dell'Arte
This book explores the commedia dell'arte: the Italian professional theatre in Shakespeare's time. The actors of this theatre usually did not perform from scripted drama but instead improvised their performances from a shared plot and thorough knowledge of individual character roles. Robert Henke closely analyzes hitherto unexamined commedia dell'arte texts in order to demonstrate how the spoken word and written literature were fruitfully combined in performance. Henke examines a number of primary sources including performance accounts, actors' contracts, and letters, among other documents.
Making a Prince's Museum
In 1775 Prince Marcantonio Borghese IV and the architect Antonio Asprucci embarked upon a decorative renovation of the Villa Borghese. Initially their attention focused on the Casino, the principal building at the villa, which had always been a semi-public museum. By 1625 it housed much of the Borghese's outstanding collection of sculpture. Integrating this statuary with vast baroque ceiling paintings and richly ornamented surfaces, Asprucci created a dazzling and unified homage to the Borghese family, portraying its legendary ancestors as well as its newly born heir. In this book, Carole Paul reads the inventive decorative program as a set of exemplary scenes for the education of the ideal ...
The Directory of University Libraries in Europe
An essential one volume guide to the university libraries of Europe.
