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Renaissance Rewritings
‘Rewriting’ is one of the most crucial but at the same time one of the most elusive concepts of literary scholarship. In order to contribute to a further reassessment of such a notion, this volume investigates a wide range of medieval and early modern literary transformations, especially focusing on texts (and contexts) of Italian and French Renaissance literature. The first section of the book, "Rewriting", gathers essays which examine medieval and early modern rewritings while also pointing out the theoretical implications raised by such texts. The second part, "Rewritings in Early Modern Literature", collects contributions which account for different practices of rewriting in the Ital...
Teachers, Students, and Schools of Greek in the Renaissance
The beginning of the Greek revival in the West is generally attributed to the teaching of the Byzantine scholar Manuel Chrysoloras in Florence between 1397 and 1400. Causes, aspects, and consequences of this important cultural phenomenon still need to be analyzed in depth. The essays collected in this volume examine the development of the study of Greek from the fifteenth to the early sixteenth century, reconstructing its spread and impact on early modern literatures, philosophy, and visual arts. An analysis of the methods and tools used to teach and learn Greek sheds light on the complex cultural relationships between Byzantium and the West and enlarges the traditional picture of the Greek revival in early modern Europe. Contributors are: Lilia Campana, Federica Ciccolella, Mariarosa Cortesi, Francesco G. Giannachi, Fevronia Nousia, Kalle Lundahl, Erika Nuti, Denis Robichaud, Antonio Rollo, Luigi Silvano, David Speranzi, and Paola Tomé.
Interactions between Orality and Writing in Early Modern Italian Culture
Investigating the interrelationships between orality and writing in elite and popular textual culture in early modern Italy, this volume shows how the spoken or sung word on the one hand, and manuscript or print on the other hand, could have interdependent or complementary roles to play in the creation and circulation of texts. The first part of the book centres on performances, ranging from realizations of written texts to improvisations or semi-improvisations that might draw on written sources and might later be committed to paper. Case studies examine the poems sung in the piazza that narrated contemporary warfare, commedia dell'arte scenarios, and the performative representation of the d...
“An Ancient Psalm, a Modern Song”
This volume presents dozens of classical Hebrew texts translated into literary Italian. It is the first study of an almost ignored corpus, showing the degree of cultural and linguistic integration of the Jews of Italy long before the German Haskala.
Humanistica Lovaniensia
As well as presenting articles on Neo-Latin topics, the annual journal Humanistica Lovaniensia is a major source for critical editions of Neo-Latin texts with translations and commentaries. Please visit www.lup.be for the full table of contents.
The Legacy of Birgitta of Sweden
Saint Birgitta of Sweden (d. 1373), one of the most famous visionary women of the late Middle Ages, lived in Rome for the last 23 years of her life. Much of her extensive literary work was penned there. Her Celestial Revelations circulated widely from the late 14th century to the 17th century, copied in Italian scriptoria, translated into vernacular, and printed in several Latin and Italian editions. In the same centuries, an extraordinary number of women writers across the peninsula were publishing their work. What echoes might we find of the foreign widow’s prophetic voice in their texts? This volume offers innovative investigations, written by an interdisciplinary group of experts, of the profound impact of Birgitta of Sweden in Renaissance Italy. Contributors include: Brian Richardson, Jane Tylus, Isabella Gagliardi, Clara Stella, Marco Faini, Jessica Goethals, Anna Wainwright, Eleonora Cappuccilli, Eleonora Carinci, Virginia Cox, Unn Falkeid, and Silvia Nocentini.
A Companion to the Renaissance in Southern Italy (1350–1600)
A Companion to the Renaissance in Southern Italy offers readers unfamiliar with Southern Italy an introduction to different aspects of the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century history and culture of this vast and significant area of Europe, situated at the center of the Mediterranean. Commonly regarded as a backward, rural region untouched by the Italian Renaissance, the essays in this volume paint a rather different picture. The expert-written contributions present a general survey of the most recent research on the centers of southern Italy, as well as insight into the ground-breaking debates on wider themes, such as the definition of the city, continuity and discontinuity at the turn of the s...
Tutta un'altra storia 3
I dodici racconti di questa raccolta sono il risultato migliore della terza edizione del concorso nazionale di scrittura a squadre Che Storia! Racconti avvincenti ed emozionanti in cui storia e invenzione si arricchiscono a vicenda, in un originale amalgama di curiosità e ricerca, di studio e fantasia. Racconti nati dall'intensa umanità dei giovani autori, dalla loro capacità di immedesimarsi nelle vittime, dalla ferma condanna degli orrori della storia, dalla fiducia nel valore della memoria. Perché ricordare è invitare alla comprensione e al dialogo, ma anche rifiutare di volgere lo sguardo dall'altra parte, davanti all'ingiustizia, all'intolleranza, alla violenza.
Tutta un'altra storia 4
I dodici racconti di questo libro sono il risultato migliore della quarta edizione del concorso di scrittura a squadre Che Storia! Racconti avvincenti ed emozionanti in cui storia e invenzione si arricchiscono a vicenda, in un originale amalgama di curiosità e ricerca, di studio e fantasia. Racconti che affrontano temi centrali della riflessione storica con solidi intrecci tra vicende private e avvenimenti collettivi. Racconti in cui la storia è vista dalla parte degli innocenti, degli indifesi, dei giusti, in un dialogo con la memoria impegnato ad opporsi non soltanto al male ma anche all'indifferenza, a quel volgere lo sguardo altrove che rende complici e dunque colpevoli.
Tutta un'altra storia 6
I dodici racconti di questo libro sono il risultato migliore della sesta edizione del concorso di scrittura a squadre Che Storia! Racconti avvincenti ed emozionanti in cui storia e invenzione si arricchiscono a vicenda, in un originale amalgama di curiosità e ricerca, di studio e fantasia. Racconti che affrontano temi centrali della riflessione storica intrecciando vicende private e avvenimenti collettivi. Racconti in cui la storia è vista dalla parte degli innocenti, degli indifesi, in un dialogo con la memoria impegnato ad opporsi al male e all'indifferenza. Perché ricordare è invitare alla comprensione e al dialogo, ma anche rifiutare di volgere lo sguardo dall'altra parte, davanti all'ingiustizia, all'intolleranza, alla violenza.
