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The Silver Caesars
The twelve monumental silver-gilt standing cups known as the Aldobrandini Tazze constitute perhaps the most enigmatic masterpiece of Renaissance European metalwork. Topped with statuettes of the Twelve Caesars, the tazze are decorated with marvelously detailed scenes illustrating the lives of those ancient Roman rulers. The work’s origin is unknown, and the ensemble was divided in the nineteenth century and widely dispersed, greatly hampering study. This volume, inspired by a groundbreaking symposium at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, examines topics ranging from the tazze’s representation of the ancient world to their fate in the hands of nineteenth-century collectors, and presents newly discovered archival material and advanced scientific findings. The distinguished essayists propose answers to critical questions that have long surrounded the set and shed light on the stature of Renaissance goldsmiths’ work as an art form, establishing a new standard for the study of Renaissance silver.
Portrait of a Castrato
A fascinating insight into the life and music-making of the most documented musician of the seventeenth century, castrato Atto Melani.
JULIUS CAESAR 1935: Shakespeare and Censorship in Fascist Italy
On 1 August 1935, only a few months before Mussolini launched the colonial enterprise in Ethiopia, Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar was produced at the Maxentius Basilica in Rome. The performance was organised by The National Workers’ Recreational Club (O.N.D.) and the script was submitted for censorship. However, the procedure followed a different course from the usual one as the commissioner was also part of the Fascist political system. This parallel edition presents for the first time the integral script of the censored text of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, in Raffaello Piccoli's 1925 Italian translation, and explores the implications of this peculiar type of censorship at the moment when, through Shakespeare, censoring became one and the same with political propaganda.
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Mad For Love
Wherever he goes, Blaize, Marquess of Stretton, hears the jingle of keys as society mothers lock up their daughters. As the embodiment of Bacchus, god of wine and madness, it’s something he’s used to. Yet his heart is lonely. Until he enters a ballroom, hunting for the Titans who destroyed his father. One look at Lady Aurelia Wells and he’s consumed with an instant compulsion to protect her from the attentions of another man who smells of Titan—Marcus, Duke of Lyndhurst. Aurelia is no shy debutante. She knows what she wants, and it’s the stunningly handsome Blaize, even if it means defying her powerful mother. When Blaize disappears, Aurelia embarks on a treacherous cross-country chase to find him, knowing that if she fails, she must marry her mother’s choice: Marcus. Each book in the Even Gods Fall in Love series is STANDALONE. - Lightning Unbound - Mad For Love - Arrows of Desire - Forged By Love - War Chest - Her Quicksilver Lover
Il Moro; Ellis Heywood's Dialogue in Memory of Thomas More
In Il Moro Heywood constructs a presumably imaginary debate about the nature of true happiness between his great-uncle Sir Thomas More and six of More's friends. Heywood's principal intention in composing this dialogue about happiness seems to have been to provide posterity with a loving memorial of one of England's greatest humanists.
