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Episodes in the Life of the Early Modern Learned Book
In Episodes, Ian Maclean investigates the ways in which the book trade operated through book fairs, and interacted with academic institutions, journals and intellectual life in various European settings (Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and England) in the long seventeenth century.
Poesia e rivoluzione
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Niccolò Ridolfi and the Cardinal's Court
Niccolò Ridolfi (1501–50), was a Florentine cardinal, nephew and cousin to the Medici popes Leo X and Clement VII, and he owed his status and wealth to their patronage. He remained actively engaged in Florentine politics, above all during the years of crisis that saw the Florentine state change from republic to duchy. A widely respected patron and scholar throughout his life, his sudden death during the conclave of 1549–50 led to allegations of poison that an autopsy appears to confirm. This book examines Cardinal Ridolfi and his court in order to understand the extent to which cardinalate courts played a key part in Rome’s resurgence and acted as hubs of knowledge located on the faul...
The Prodigious Muse
Winner, 2012 Book Award, Society for the Study of Early Modern WomenHonorable Mention, Literature, 2012 PROSE Awards, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers In her award-winning, critically acclaimed Women’s Writing in Italy, 1400–1650, Virginia Cox chronicles the history of women writers in early modern Italy—who they were, what they wrote, where they fit in society, and how their status changed during this period. In this book, Cox examines more closely one particular moment in this history, in many ways the most remarkable for the richness and range of women’s literary output. A widespread critical notion sees Italian women’s wri...
Food and Knowledge in Renaissance Italy
Though Bartolomeo Scappi's Opera (1570), the first illustrated cookbook, is well known to historians of food, up to now there has been no study of its illustrations, unique in printed books through the early seventeenth century. In Food and Knowledge in Renaissance Italy, Krohn both treats the illustrations in Scappi's cookbook as visual evidence for a lost material reality; and through the illustrations, including several newly-discovered hand-colored examples, connects Scappi's Opera with other types of late Renaissance illustrated books. What emerges from both of these approaches is a new way of thinking about the place of cookbooks in the history of knowledge. Krohn argues that with the ...
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.
«Una lingua commune»
L’«inclita città» (parafrasando l’Incipit di una lettera di Coluccio Salutati a Gaspare Squaro dei Broaspini) di Gaeta, particolarmente nel periodo umanistico e rinascimentale, ha rivestito una importante posizione non solo all’interno delle vicende storiche e geo-politiche del Regno di Napoli, ma anche e soprattutto nell’ambito storico e culturale di tutta la penisola. Antico ducato e città marinara dagli albori del Medioevo, depositaria di una lingua propria ed autoctona, al centro di scambi commerciali all’interno del Mare Nostrum e almeno importante quanto Napoli, la nostra città nel Quattrocento ed ancor di più nel Cinquecento, si trasforma in autentica porta del regno n...
Beyond Given Knowledge
The effort to go beyond given knowledge in different domains – artistic, scientific, political, metaphysical – is a characteristic driving force in modernism and the avant-gardes. Since the late 19th century, artists and writers have frequently investigated their medium and its limits, pursued political and religious aims, and explored hitherto unknown physical, social and conceptual spaces, often in ways that combine these forms of critical inquiry into one and provoke further theoretical and methodological innovations. The fifth volume of the EAM series casts light on the history and actuality of investigations, quests and explorations in the European avant-garde and modernism from the...
«Caro amoroso neo»
Tra 1592 e 1594 Torquato Tasso invia a Carlo Gesualdo una serie di madrigali che poi confluiranno nel I e II libro di madrigali del compositore venosino (1594). La collaborazione tra i due ci permette in questo studio di affrontare un duplice discorso: teorico (sulla struttura dei madrigali del Gesualdo e sulla genesi della scrittura tassesca) e pratico (nel senso di un’analisi specifica dell’unitarietà di musica e poesia nell’accezione datane dai teorici rinascimentali) che permette di chiarire quel doppio equilibrio esistente tra la proposta testuale e la sua resa musicale e tra l’idea stessa di identità ritmica, metrica e sonora della parola poetica che si fa musicale [...].
Printing Virgil
In this work Craig Kallendorf argues that the printing press played a crucial, and previously unrecognized, role in the reception of the Roman poet Virgil in the Renaissance, transforming his work into poetry that was both classical and postclassical.
