1st Edition

The Italian Academies 1525-1700 Networks of Culture, Innovation and Dissent

Edited By Jane E. Everson, Denis Reidy, Lisa Sampson Copyright 2016
366 Pages
by Routledge

366 Pages
by Routledge

366 Pages
by Routledge

The intellectual societies known as Academies played a vital role in the development of culture, and scholarly debate throughout Italy between 1525-1700. They were fundamental in establishing the intellectual networks later defined as the ‘République des Lettres’, and in the dissemination of ideas in early modern Europe, through print, manuscript, oral debate and performance. This volume surveys... Read more

1 Defining the Place of Academies in Florentine Culture and Politics  2 Pro- and anti-Medici? Political Ambivalence and Social Integration in the Accademia degli Alterati (Florence, 1569–c. 1625)  3 Accademie senesi: tramonto e alba di una respublica litteraria  4 Reforming Theatre in Farnese Parma: The Case of the Accademia degli Innominati (1574–1608)  5 The Accademia della Fucina: Culture and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Messina  6 The Accademia della Virtu and Religious Dissent  7 A Ghost Academy between Venice and Brescia: Philosophical Scepticism and Religious Heterodoxy in the Accademia dei Dubbiosi  8 Between Church, University and Academies: Paolo Beni in Padua, 1599–1623  9 Members, Muses, Mascots: Women and Italian Academies  10 The Accademia di San Luca between Educational and Religious Reform  11 ‘Nec longum tempus’: l’Accademia dei Gelati tra xvi e xvii secolo (1588–1614)  12 Italian Academies and their ‘Facebooks’  13 Accademia come palestra e come tribuna: Girolamo Ruscelli sdegnato, ardente, dubbioso, fratteggiano  14 L ’Accademia Palermitana degli Accesi: un esempio di petrarchismo nel tardo Cinquecento  15 Da Francesco Petrarca a Giovan Battista Marino: l’Accademia degli Insensati di Perugia (1561–1608)  16 Bronzino e l’Accademia Fiorentina  17 L a poesia funebre all’Accademia Olimpica di Vicenza  18 Dee, imperatrici, cortigiane: la natura della donna nei romanzi degli Incogniti (Venezia)



 



 

Biography

Jane Everson is Professor of Italian Literature in the School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway, University of London.



Denis V. Reidy is Head of the Italian and Modern Greek Collections at the British Library.



Lisa Sampson is Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and European Studies at the University of Reading.