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Cosmopolitanism and the Enlightenment
Offers a timely intervention into the debate about the Enlightenment and its legacy, highlighting both its plurality and continuing relevance.
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The Operas of Leonardo Vinci, Napoletano
Vinci produced a string of operas during a brief career of little more than a decade. He died mysteriously. He was hailed by connoisseurs of the later 18th century as one of the originators of the classical style.
Opera, Theatrical Culture and Society in Late Eighteenth-Century Naples
The operatic culture of late eighteenth-century Naples represents the fullest expression of a matrix of creators, practitioners, theorists, patrons, and entrepreneurs linking aristocratic, public and religious spheres of contemporary society. The considerable resonance of 'Neapolitan' opera in Europe was verified early in the eighteenth century not only through voluminous reports offered by locals and visitors in gazettes, newspapers, correspondence or diaries, but also, and more importantly, through the rich and tangible artistic patrimony produced for local audiences and then exported to the Italian peninsula and abroad. Naples was not simply a city of entertainment, but rather a cultural ...
Sentimental Opera
Castelvecchi presents a critical re-evaluation of the operatic genre system and the cult of sensibility in the age of Mozart.
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Watching Vesuvius
This work explores the question of Vesuvius as an object of study in the early modern science of volcanism from the investigations and opinions of humanists and naturalists in the late Renaissance to the early 18th-century philosophizing on volcanoes and the development of geology later in the century.
