Art and Ideas in Eighteenth-Century Italy. Lectures given at the Italian Institute 1957-1958
Author: Italian Institute (London, England)
Publisher: Ed. di Storia e Letteratura
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Total Pages: 248
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Art and Ideas in Eighteenth Century Italy
Art and Ideas in Eighteenth-century Italy
Opera and Sovereignty
Author: Martha Feldman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010-10-05
Total Pages: 574
ISBN-13: 0226044548
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century’s most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart. Opera and Sovereignty is the first book to address this genre as cultural history, arguing that eighteenth-century opera seria must be understood in light of the period’s social and political upheavals. Taking an anthropological approach to European music that’s as bold as it is unusual, Martha Feldman traces Italian opera’s shift from a mythical assertion of sovereignty, with its festive forms and rituals, to a dramatic vehicle that increasingly questioned absolute ideals. She situates these transformations against the backdrop of eighteenth-century Italian culture to show how opera seria both reflected and affected the struggles of rulers to maintain sovereignty in the face of a growing public sphere. In so doing, Feldman explains why the form had such great international success and how audience experiences of the period differed from ours today. Ambitiously interdisciplinary, Opera and Sovereignty will appeal not only to scholars of music and anthropology, but also to those interested in theater, dance, and the history of the Enlightenment.
Enlightened Reform in Southern Europe and its Atlantic Colonies, c. 1750-1830
Author: Dr Gabriel Paquette
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2013-06-28
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 1409480747
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Efforts to ascertain the influence of enlightenment thought on state action, especially government reform, in the long eighteenth century have long provoked stimulating scholarly quarrels. Generations of historians have grappled with the elusive intersections of enlightenment and absolutism, of political ideas and government policy. In order to complement, expand and rejuvenate the debate which has so far concentrated largely on Northern, Central and Eastern Europe, this volume brings together historians of Southern Europe (broadly defined) and its ultramarine empires. Each chapter has been explicitly commissioned to engage with a common set of historiographical issues in order to reappraise specific aspects of 'enlightened absolutism' and 'enlightened reform' as paradigms for the study of Southern Europe and its Atlantic empires. In so doing it engages creatively with pressing issues in the current historical literature and suggests new directions for future research. No single historian, working alone, could write a history that did justice to the complex issues involved in studying the connection between enlightenment ideas and policy-making in Spanish America, Brazil, France, Italy, Portugal and Spain. For this reason, this well-conceived, balanced volume, drawing on the expertise of a small, carefully-chosen cohort, offers an exciting investigation of this historical debate.
The Growth of Biological Thought
Author: Ernst Mayr
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 996
ISBN-13: 9780674364462
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores the development of the ideas of evolutionary biology, particularly as affected by the increasing understanding of genetics and of the chemical basis of inheritance.
Joseph II
Author: T C W Blanning
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-26
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 1317899652
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Joseph II (1741--90) -- son and eventual successor of Maria Theresa -- has conventionally been seen in the context of the "Enlightened Despot'' reformers. Today's turmoil in his former territories invites a rather different perspective, however, as Joseph grapples with the familiar and intractable problems of creating a viable unitary state out of his multi-national empire in Central Europe. Professor Blanning's brilliant short study, based on extensive archival research, offers a history of the Habsburg monarchy in the eighteenth century, as well as a revaluation of the emperor's complex personality and his ill-fated reform programme.
Isaiah Berlin and the Enlightenment
Author: L. W. B. Brockliss
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0198783930
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Isaiah Berlin and the Enlightenment explores the development of Berlin's conception of the Enlightenment, noting its indebtedness to a specific German intellectual tradition. The book examines his comments on individual writers, arguing that some assigned to the Counter-Enlightenment have closer affinities to the Enlightenment than he recognized.
Homer's Original Genius
Author: Kirsti Simonsuuri
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1979-03-15
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0521221986
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The querelle des anciens et des modernes - the question whether writers should imitate the classics or use literary forms which seemed more suited to their own era - had been debated in Europe since the earliest days of the Renaissance. This book analyses the development of the querelle following the adoption of the argument of the modernist faction of seventeenth-century France.
National Union Catalog
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Published: 1956
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