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The Art of Commedia
Italian comedians attracted audiences to performances at every level, from the magnificent Italian, German and French court festival appearances of Orlando di Lasso or Isabella Andreini, to the humble street trestle lazzi of anonymous quacks. The characters they inspired continue to exercise a profound cultural influence, and an understanding of the commedia dell'arte and its visual record is fundamental for scholars of post-1550 European drama, literature, art and music. The 340 plates presented here are considered in the light of the rise and spread of commedia stock types, and especially Harlequin, Zanni and the actresses. Intensively researched in public and private collections in Oxford...
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Music, Medicine and Religion at the Ospedale Di Santo Spirito in Rome
Explores the use of music as therapy and shows how it operated in the hospital''s institutional, social and historical contexts, undergoing change in response to broader cultural and religious movements.This book explores connections between the physical care of the sick based on the study of medicine, concepts of healing founded on religious thought, and the practice of music at the Ospedale di Santo Spirito (Hospital of the Holy Spirit) in Rome. The hospital was a unique institution that was regulated by the Roman Catholic Church but simultaneously reflected the significant shifts in scientific thought emerging during the period that coincided with post-Tridentine reforms in the church.The...
THE PATH OF THE HOLY GRAIL
This book is not so much an addition to the long bibliography already existing on the subject, but rather an examination of a particular element, already present in the literary tradition of the Grail: the arrival of the Marys in the south of France and the subsequent journey of Joseph of Arimathea to Glastonbury, Wales, Great Britain. My intention is to focus, among the many themes of the Grail, mainly on the “path of the Holy Grail”, that is, the journey of the Marys from Palestine to their arrival in Provence, in the south of France, as told by Jacopo da Varazze, or Varagine, (1228-1298) and before him by Rabanus Maurus (776-856). Joseph of Arimathea is also mentioned as part of the group that, starting from the south of France, founded the first church in Great Britain, on the plain of Glastonbury, another extraordinary place with very strong ties to the Grail and the Arthurian cycle. Some of the main characters, such as Mary Magdalene and Joseph of Arimathea, have been represented in a comparative way, using the canonical and apocryphal gospels and some codices and documents found at Qumran.
A Companion to Early Modern Naples
Naples was one of the largest cities in early modern Europe, and for about two centuries the largest city in the global empire ruled by the kings of Spain. Its crowded and noisy streets, the height of its buildings, the number and wealth of its churches and palaces, the celebrated natural beauty of its location, the many antiquities scattered in its environs, the fiery volcano looming over it, the drama of its people’s devotions, the size and liveliness - to put it mildly - of its plebs, all made Naples renowned and at times notorious across Europe. The new essays in this volume aim to introduce this important, fascinating, and bewildering city to readers unfamiliar with its history. Contr...
