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Black Africans in Renaissance Europe
This highly original book opens up the almost entirely neglected area of the black African presence in Western Europe during the Renaissance. Covering history, literature, art history and anthropology, it investigates a whole range of black African experience and representation across Renaissance Europe, from various types of slavery to black musicians and dancers, from real and symbolic Africans at court to the views of the Catholic Church, and from writers of African descent to Black African criminality. Their findings demonstrate the variety and complexity of black African life in fifteenth and sixteenth-century Europe, and how it was affected by firmly held preconceptions relating to the African continent and its inhabitants, reinforced by Renaissance ideas and conditions. Of enormous importance both for European and American history, this book mixes empirical material and theoretical approaches, and addresses such issues as stereotypes, changing black African identity, and cultural representation in art and literature.
Cultures of Diplomacy and Literary Writing in the Early Modern World
This interdisciplinary edited collection explores the relationship between literature and diplomacy in the early modern world and studies how texts played an integral part in diplomatic practice.
Kafka’s Italian Progeny
This book explores Kafka's sometimes surprising connections with key Italian writers, from Italo Calvino to Elena Ferrante, who shaped Italy's modern literary landscape.
In the Footsteps of Dante
Dante, the pilgrim, is the image of an author who stubbornly looks ahead, seeking and building the "Great Beyond" (Manguel). Following in his footsteps is therefore not a return to the past, going à rebours, but a commitment to the future, to exploring the potential of humanity to "transhumanise". This dynamic of self-transcendence in Dante’s humanism (Ossola), which claims for European civilisation a vocation for universalism (Ferroni), is analysed in the volume at three crucial moments: Firstly, the establishment of an emancipatory relationship between author and reader (Ascoli), in which authorship is authority and not power; secondly, the conception of vision as a learning process and...
Italia, Portogallo, Brasile: un incontro di storia, lingua e letteratura attraverso i secoli
I contributi riuniti nel volume, presentati per la prima volta in occasione del I Convegno dell'AISPEB (Associazione di Studi Portoghesi e Brasiliani), tenutosi nel 2012 presso le sedi dell'Università di Roma “La Sapienza” e dell'Università di Roma Tre, offrono un panorama di temi, linguistici e letterari, legati sia al contesto portoghese che a quello brasiliano. I saggi d’argomento letterario rinnovano il contributo italiano allo studio della letteratura luso-brasiliana, rimanendo nel solco di una tradizione nazionale ricca di spunti, che ha visto arrivare proprio dall’Italia alcuni contributi storici, filologici ed ermeneutici tuttora indispensabili per comprendere l’opera dei maggiori autori di lingua portoghese. I saggi di argomento linguistico sintetizzano invece alcuni dei risultati prodotti dalle cattedre di lingua, di recente istituzione in Italia, privilegiando in particolar modo tematiche legate al binomio lingua-traduzione.
Poets, Patronage, and Print in Sixteenth-century Portugal
Portugal was not always the best place for poets in the sixteenth century. Against the backdrop of an expanding empire, the country's annexation by Spain in 1580, and ongoing religious controversy, poets struggled to articulate their worth to rulers and patrons. This did not prevent them, however, from persisting in their craft. Indeed, many of their works reflected precisely on the question of what poetry could do and what, ultimately, its value was. The answers that poets like Luís de Camões, Francisco de Sá de Miranda, António Ferreira, and Diogo Bernardes offered to these questions, and which are explored in this book, ranged from lofty ideals to the more practical concerns of making...
Traces on The Sea: Portuguese Interaction With Asia
A closely-argued collection of articles by five respected Portuguese professors on various aspects of the long relationship between Portugal and its former colonies in Asia, TRACES ON THE SEA presents material on history, linguistics, architecture, and ethnomusicology focusing on Goa and elsewhere in Asia touched by Portuguese culture over the centuries. The book provides a background to the academic study of Goa and also as a site stimulating ideas for future research.
Dialog und Diskurs. Dialogue et discours
Wissen wird in verschiedensten Formen übermittelt, wobei die Formen des Wissens auch über seine Überzeugungskraft bestimmen. In den europäischen Kulturen spielt das dialogische Prinzip seit der Antike eine besondere Rolle, während die Moderne eher der Wissensprosa aus Lexika und Journalen vertraut. Dieser Band fragt aus der Perspektive von Philosophie, Literatur-, Geschichts- und Politikwissenschaft nach den vielfältigen Transformationen vom Dialog zum Diskurs, die sich in der Frühen Neuzeit abzeichnen, sowie nach den neuen polyphonen Wissensgenres wie der Satire von Diogenes Laertios bis Boileau, den neuplatonischen Liebestraktaten, den strategischen Dialogen bei Castiglione oder Machiavelli oder dem Essay bei Montaigne.
O Mundo Clássico e a universalidade dos seus valores
Esta obra pretende homenagear a Prof. Doutora Nair de Nazaré Castro Soares, Professora Catedrática Jubilada da Universidade de Coimbra, num acto de reconhecimento pela sua carreira académica, que se desdobrou num profícuo e longo magistério, e numa investigação de excelência. Da sua longa e proveitosa actividade ao serviço da educação e da ciência beneficiaram muitas gerações de alunos e de investigadores, em Portugal e no estrangeiro. São esses discípulos, colegas e amigos que agora contribuem para a composição deste livro, com trabalhos que versam as várias áreas do saber em que ela se distinguiu e que conferem estrutura à organização desta obra: a literatura e a cultura greco-latinas, a tradição clássica medieval, os estudos do Humanismo e Renascimento, e a herança clássica no mundo moderno e contemporâneo.
Il libro dell'inquietudine
Il libro dell'inquietudine è il "Grande Libro" che Pessoa scrisse nel corso di tutta la vita, il progetto mai concluso cui si dedicò dagli anni Dieci al 1934 almeno. Ci è giunto in forma di centinaia di frammenti che, nella loro grande maggioranza, raccontano l'autobiografia "senza avvenimenti" di Vicente Guedes prima, di Bernardo Soares poi.
