Singing to the Lyre in Renaissance Italy
Author: Blake Wilson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108488075
Category: History
Page: 487
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Language: en
Pages: 487
Pages: 487
The first comprehensive study of the dominant form of solo singing in Renaissance Italy prior to the mid-sixteenth century.
Language: en
Pages: 561
Pages: 561
Across Europe, from the dawn of print until the early twentieth century, the news of crime and criminals' public executions was printed in song form on cheap broadsides and pamphlets to be sold in streets and marketplaces by ballad-singers. Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe 1500-1900 looks
Language: en
Pages: 763
Pages: 763
This volume explores various perceptions, adaptations, and appropriations of Horace in the Early Modern age across textual, visual and musical media. It thus intends to advocate an interdisciplinary and multi-medial approach to the exceptionally rich and variegated afterlife of Horace.
Language: en
Pages: 248
Pages: 248
In Renaissance Italy there existed a rich interplay between two cultural practices frequently regarded as entirely separate and mutually antagonistic: the humanistic study of the ancient world and ancient literature, and the oral and improvisational performance of poetry, which constituted one of the most popular forms of entertainment. A Sudden
Language: en
Pages: 487
Pages: 487
Giovanni Villani’s New Chronicle traces the history of Europe, Italy, and Florence over a vast sweep of time – from the Tower of Babel to the great earthquake of 1348. In the eleventh and twelfth books, Villani depicts a particularly eventful period in the history of Florence, whose grandeur is
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