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Divining the Etruscan World
The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar is a rare document of omens foretold by thunder. It long lay hidden, embedded in a Greek translation within a Byzantine treatise from the age of Justinian. The first complete English translation of the Brontoscopic Calendar, this book provides an understanding of Etruscan Iron Age society as revealed through the ancient text, especially the Etruscans' concerns regarding the environment, food, health and disease. Jean MacIntosh Turfa also analyzes the ancient Near Eastern sources of the Calendar and the subjects of its predictions, thereby creating a picture of the complexity of Etruscan society reaching back before the advent of writing and the recording of the calendar.
The Badia of Florence
The Santa Maria di Firenze, the venerable Benedictine abbey located in the heart of Florence, is the subject of this book. Leader's richly illustrated, interdisciplinary study examines the abbey's history during the Renaissance.
Art Patronage, Family, and Gender in Renaissance Florence
This book examines a Renaissance Florentine family's art patronage, even for women, inspired by literature, music, love, loss, and religion.
Theatre and Architecture - Stage Design - Costume
This long-awaited bibliography of recent books about theatre architecture, scenography and costume, published with the support of Belgian Ministry of Culture and the «Théâtre & Publics» Association, has been prepared in collaboration with experts in five languages: English, French, German, Italian and Russian. This extensive bibliography, which meets the demands of the International Theatre Institute organizations and the International Organization of Scenographers, Theatre Architects and Technicians, will prove useful to theatre practitioners as well as to confirmed or young theatre scholars. Cette bibliographie rassemble un choix d'ouvrages sur le théâtre et l'architecture, la scénographie, le costume. Elle a bénéficié de la collaboration d'experts internationaux (anglais, français, allemands, italiens et russes). Répondant à la demande de l'IIT (Institut international du théâtre) et de l'OISTAT (Organisation internationale des scénographes, techniciens et architectes de théâtre), cette bibliographie en cinq langues est un précieux outil pour tout praticien et théoricien du théâtre.
Donati Graeci
The starting point generally acknowledged for the revival of Greek studies in the West is 1397, when the Byzantine Manuel Chrysoloras began to teach Greek in Florence. With his Erotemata, Chrysoloras gave Westerners a tool to learn Greek; the search for the ideal Greek textbook, however, continued even after the publication of the best Byzantine-humanist grammars. The four Greek Donati edited in this book - 'Latinate' Greek grammars, based on the Latin schoolbook entitled Ianua or Donatus - belong to the many pedagogical experiments documented in manuscripts. They attest to a tradition of Greek studies that probably originated in Venice and/or Crete: a tradition certainly inferior to the Florentine scholarship in quality and circulation, but still important in the cultural history of the Renaissance.
Una rivoluzione pittorica e concettuale
Hieronymus Bosch, oggi osannato, è rimasto per circa quattro secoli in un angolo buio della storia dell’arte, fino all’inizio del Novecento, quando fu riscoperto, sebbene non compreso, dai surrealisti. Ma chi è davvero Bosch? Quale portata ha avuto la sua arte? Attraverso questa inedita analisi delle opere del grande pittore nederlandese, finalmente libera da pregiudizi culturali, vediamo delinearsi un’immagine nuova dell’artista: allo stereotipo del matto del villaggio che dipinge le sue allucinazioni infernali Franco Maiullari sostituisce la figura di una sorta di trickster, una delle tante reincarnazioni dello spirito ribelle che insorge e urla “no” a ogni tipo di potere precostituito e tracotante, a ogni abuso di potere. Bosch mette in atto una ribellione al mainstream della cultura umanistica che proponeva in maniera illusoria e gattopardesca gli ideali di un mondo nuovo e di un uomo nuovo; per contro, la sua opera invita al pacifismo e alla libertà sessuale, alla tolleranza, alla moderazione e all’ironia, senza rinunciare al carnevale, tutti segni di una grandezza rivoluzionaria, non solo pittorica, ma anche concettuale.
Andrea del Sarto
The great Renaissance artist Andrea del Sarto (1486–1530) rivals Leonardo da Vinci as one of history’s most accomplished draftsmen. Moving beyond the graceful elegance of his contemporaries, such as Raphael and Fra Bartolommeo, he brought unprecedented realism to his drawings through the rough and rustic use of chalk in his powerfully rendered life and compositional studies. With an immediacy few other Renaissance artists possess, del Sarto’s work has proven to be inspirational and compelling to later audiences, with admirers such as Degas and Redon. This lavishly illustrated book reveals del Sarto's dazzling inventiveness and creative process, presenting fifty core drawings on paper t...
The Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance
This work offers the first English-language survey of the book industry in Renaissance Italy. Whereas traditional accounts of the book in the Renaissance celebrate authors and literary achievement, this study examines the nuts and bolts of a rapidly expanding trade that built on existing economic practices while developing new mechanisms in response to political and religious realities. Approaching the book trade from the perspective of its publishers and booksellers, this archive-based account ranges across family ambitions and warehouse fires to publishers' petitions and convivial bookshop conversation. In the process it constructs a nuanced picture of trading networks, production, and the distribution and sale of printed books, a profitable but capricious commodity. Originally published in Italian as Il commercio librario nell’Italia del Rinascimento (Milan: Franco Angeli, 1998; second, revised ed., 2003), this present English translation has not only been updated but has also been deeply revised and augmented.
