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By Beth Williamson

Edited by Joanna Cannon

This was first published in 2000:  Introduced by Joanna Cannon, this volume of essays by postgraduate students at the Courtauld Institute, University of London, explores some of the ways in which art was used to express, to celebrate, and to promote the political and religious aims and…

Paperback – 2018-09-30 
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

By Ivo Van der Graaff

The fortifications of Pompeii stand as the ancient city’s largest, oldest, and best preserved public monument. Over its 700-year history, Pompeii invested significant amounts of money, resources, and labor into re-building, maintaining, and upgrading the walls. Each intervention on the…

Hardback – 2018-09-19 
Routledge

By Denise De Rome

Soluzioni: A Practical Grammar of Contemporary Italian comprises an engaging reference and practice grammar explained in clear and concise language with numerous supporting exercises. Aimed at keen students of all levels, Soluzioni offers: a complete grammar review in tabular form for easy…

Paperback – 2018-08-14 
Routledge
Routledge Concise Grammars

By Derek Duncan

Derek Duncan's timely study is the first book in English to examine constructions of male homosexuality in Italian literature. In admirably clear and elegant prose, Duncan analyzes texts ranging from the 1890s through the 1990s. He brings canonical authors like D'Annunzio and Pasolini together with…

Paperback – 2017-10-09
Routledge

By Gabriela Dragnea Horvath

Analyzing Shakespeare's views on theatre and magic and John Dee's concerns with philosophy and magic in the light of the Italian version of philosophia perennis (mainly Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola and Giordano Bruno), this book offers a new perspective on the Italian-English cultural…

Hardback – 2017-06-29
Routledge
Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies

By Alexandra Coller

Sixteenth-century Italy witnessed the rebirth of comedy, tragedy, and tragicomedy in the pastoral mode. Traditionally, we think of comedy and tragedy as remakes of ancient models, and tragicomedy alone as the invention of the moderns. Women, Rhetoric, and Drama in Early Modern Italy suggests that…

Hardback – 2017-06-23
Routledge

By Gregory Barnett

This book, the first of its kind, is a study of Bolognese instrumental music during the height of the city's musical activity in the late seventeenth century. The period”marked by a rapid expansion of the cappella musicale of the principal city church, San Petronio, by the founding of the Accademia…

Paperback – 2016-11-30
Routledge

By Ann Roberts

Starting from an inventory and other documents, Ann Roberts has identified some 30 works of art that originated from the convent of San Domenico of Pisa. She here examines those objects commissioned for and made by the nuns during the fifteenth century; some of the objects included have never…

Paperback – 2016-11-11
Routledge
Women and Gender in the Early Modern World

Edited by Thomas Frangenberg, Robert Williams

One of the most significant developments in the study of works of art over the past generation has been a shift in focus from the works themselves to the viewer's experience of them and the relation of that experience both to the works in question and to other aspects of cultural life. The ten…

Paperback – 2016-11-11
Routledge
Histories of Vision

Edited by Suzanne Fleischman, Linda R. Waugh

First published in 1990, this collection investigates grammatical categories associated with the verb as they are used by speakers and writers in real discourses and texts. Focusing on tense, aspect, mood, and voice in French, Spanish, and Italian, each chapter underscores the importance of context…

Hardback – 2016-11-02
Routledge
RLE: Discourse Analysis

By Pamela M. Jones

A social history of reception, this study focuses on sacred art and Catholicism in Rome during the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The five altarpieces examined here were painted by artists who are admired today - Caravaggio, Guercino, and Guido Reni - and by the less renowned but once…

Paperback – 2016-10-19
Routledge
Visual Culture in Early Modernity

By Emanuela Patti

What role did Dante play in the work of Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975)? His unfinished and fragmented imitation of the Comedia, La Divina Mimesis, is only one outward sign of what was a sustained dialogue with Dante on representation begun in the early 1950s. During this period, the philologists…

Hardback – 2016-07-20
Routledge
Italian Perspectives
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