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Biographies and Autobiographies in Modern Italy: a Festschrift for John Woodhouse
"Critical interest in biography and autobiography has never been higher. However, while life-writing flourishes in the UK, in Italy it is a less prominent genre. The twelve essays collected here are written against this backdrop, and address issues in biographical and autobiographical writing in Italy from the later nineteenth century to the present, with a particular emphasis on the interplay between individual lives and life-writing and the wider social and political history of Italy. The majority of essays focus on well-known writers (D'Annunzio, Svevo, Bontempelli, Montale, Levi, Calvino, Eco and Fallaci), and their varying anxieties about autobiographical writing in their work. This pic...
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Dante and Governance
ante and Governance brings to the most grandiose of Dante's messages in the ivine Comedy critical viewpoints whose originality would, at any time, constitute an important addition to Dante scholarship, but the book is also notable for an approach which during the course of its compositionspontaneously evolved as pragmatic and historical, particularly when seen against much contemporary Dante cricism. It explores Dante's breathtaking ambition to convince Europe's rulers and their subjects to create and embrace a universal peace, guaranteed by Pope and Holy Roman Emperor, which mightafford serenity for mankind fully to develop its wonderful potentialities. In that context, a group of scholars,...
From Castiglione to Chesterfield
Professor Woodhouse delivered his inaugural lecture on 25 October 1990 before the University of Oxford, in the presence of the President of Italy. His lecture discusses the changes in the social and political order in Italy following France's invasion of 1499. The resulting changes in mores were reflected in Castiglione's Book of the Courtier, published in 1528. The rise of the lower classes meant that manners and customs gradually became devalued. Chesterfield's letters to his son (1744) came at the end of a series of courtesy manuals which delivered advice to courtiers in increasingly less scrupulous terms.
The Intellectual World of Sixteenth-Century Florence
This study provides an overview of Florentine intellectual life and community in the late Renaissance. It shows how studies of language helped Florentines to develop their own story as a people distinct from ancient Greece or Rome.
