The Sixteenth-century Italian Duel
Author: Frederick Robertson Bryson
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Published: 1938
Total Pages: 284
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Frederick Robertson Bryson
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Published: 1938
Total Pages: 284
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Frederick Robertson 1878-1962 Bryson
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
Published: 2021-09-09
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781014613455
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Thomas Frederick Crane
Publisher:
Published: 2015-06-29
Total Pages: 708
ISBN-13: 9781330492406
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from Italian Social Customs of the Sixteenth Century, and Their Influence on the Literatures of Europe The labor involved in this book was considerable, and I was occupied with it from 1903 until its publication by Ginn and Co. of Boston in 1907. Meanwhile my Italian work made little progress, and when I retired from active service in 1909 it still lacked the thirteenth and last chapter on the influence of Italy on Spanish society in the seventeenth century. From time to time, however, as new books appeared or as I happened to discover older materials which had escaped my notice, I revised my work and made extensive additions to my notes. In 1912 I was recalled for a year to active service, and at the same time had the irreparable misfortune to lose the companionship and sympathy of my wife after forty years of happy married life. It was not until 1915 that I was able to resume methodical literary work, and it was not until 1917 that I completed the thirteenth and last chapter of my book. For this I could fortunately use the Ticknor Collection at Boston and the Library of the Hispanic Society at New York. However, in spite of many deficiencies, the book as it now stands is tolerably complete, and, I venture to think, will be useful to scholars as the first general view of a curious and extensive field of study. When it was undertaken some twenty-five years ago, there was no general article or book on the subject, and I was obliged to collect my materials and explore the extensive field without a guide. A glance at the notes will show how much has been done in this field within the last eighteen years, after my book was substantially completed. The only portion newly written within.that period is the thirteenth and last chapter, on the influence of Italy on Spain. I have endeavored to incorporate into my work all the important materials produced in the last eighteen years. At least all will be found mentioned in the notes. None of this new material served as a guide, for I had previously explored the whole field myself. Such illuminating articles as P. Rajna's "L'Episodio delle questioni d'amore nel Filocolo," in Romania, Vol. XXXI (1902), and G. Zonta's "Rileggendo Andrea Cappellano," and "Arbitral reali o questioni giocose?" in Studi medievali, 1908 and 1911, have afforded me additional references but have not obliged me to change conclusions which I had reached independently. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Thomas Frederick Crane
Publisher: Franklin Classics
Published: 2018-10-13
Total Pages: 710
ISBN-13: 9780342795512
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Paul F. Grendler
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Published: 2004-11-03
Total Pages: 1050
ISBN-13: 1421404230
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A “magisterial [and] elegantly written” study of Renaissance Italy’s remarkable accomplishments in higher education and academic research (Choice). Winner of the Howard R. Marraro Prize for Italian History from the American Historical Association Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Italian Renaissance universities were Europe's intellectual leaders in humanistic studies, law, medicine, philosophy, and science. Employing some of the foremost scholars of the time—including Pietro Pomponazzi, Andreas Vesalius, and Galileo Galilei—the Italian Renaissance university was the prototype of today's research university. This is the first book in any language to offer a comprehensive study of this most influential institution. Noted scholar Paul F. Grendler offers a detailed and authoritative account of the universities of Renaissance Italy. Beginning with brief narratives of the origins and development of each university, Grendler explores such topics as the number of professors and their distribution by discipline; student enrollment (some estimates are the first attempted); famous faculty members; budgets and salaries; and relations with civil authority. He discusses the timetable of lectures, student living, foreign students, the road to the doctorate, and the impact of the Counter Reformation. He shows in detail how humanism changed research and teaching, producing the medical Renaissance of anatomy and medical botany, new approaches to Aristotle, and mathematical innovation. Universities responded by creating new professorships and suppressing older ones. The book concludes with the decline of Italian universities, as internal abuses and external threats—including increased student violence and competition from religious schools—ended Italy’s educational leadership in the seventeenth century.
Author: Lauro Martines
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780801873164
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Neighborhood voices in poetry - The verbal web of patronage - Prayer in the urban setting - Love and history : men against women - Suicide of a poet - Alienation : the outsider as poet - Cruelty in the community - Seduction and family space - Poetry as political memory - Crisis in the generation of 1494.
Author: Trevor Dean
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994-04-14
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0521411025
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Drawing on a wide body of internationally-renowned scholars, including a core of Italians, this volume focuses on new material and puts crime and disorder in Renaissance Italy firmly in its political and social context. All stages of the judicial process are addressed, from the drafting of new laws to the rounding-up of bandits. Attention is paid both to common crime and to more historically specific crimes, such as sumptuary laws. Attempts to prevent or suppress disorder in private and public life are analysed, and many different types of crime, from the sexual to the political and from the verbal to the physical, are considered. In sum the volume aims to demonstrate the fundamental importance of crime and disorder for the study of the Italian Renaissance. It is the only single-volume treatment available of the subject in English. Other books have studied crime in a single city, or single types of crime, but few have presented a cross-section of articles which deploy diverse methodological approaches in material from many parts of the peninsula.
Author: Frank Henderson Stewart
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780226774077
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What is honor? Is it the same as reputation? Or is it rather a sentiment? Is it a character trait, like integrity? Or is it simply a concept too vague or incoherent to be fully analyzed? In the first sustained comparative analysis of this elusive notion, Frank Stewart writes that none of these ideas is correct. Drawing on information about Western ideas of honor from sources as diverse as medieval Arthurian romances, Spanish dramas of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the writings of German jurists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and comparing the European ideas with the ideas of a non-Western society—the Bedouin—Stewart argues that honor must be understood as a right, basically a right to respect. He shows that by understanding honor this way, we can resolve some of the paradoxes that have long troubled scholars, and can make sense of certain institutions (for instance the medieval European pledge of honor) that have not hitherto been properly understood. Offering a powerful new way to understand this complex notion, Honor has important implications not only for the social sciences but also for the whole history of European sensibility.
Author: William J. Connell
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2002-09-10
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780520232549
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Essays illustrate the ways Renaissance Florentines expressed or shaped their identities as they interacted with their society.
Author: Donald Weinstein
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2003-05-22
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 0801877113
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →On March 21, 1578, Holy Thursday, cavalier Fabrizio Bracciolini charged that he had been ambushed, slashed, stoned, and left bleeding in a Pistoia street by fellow cavalier Mariotto Cellesi and four accomplices. In The Captain's Concubine: Love, Honor, and Violence in Renaissance Tuscany, Donald Weinstein studies the lengthy investigation of the incident, bares the motives of the actors, and follows the ensuing trial. Weinstein examines the roles of the patricians, merchants, shopkeepers, weavers, priests, and prostitutes who served as audience, bit players, and chorus in this Renaissance street-theater drama. When Fabrizio is revealed to be the lover of Chiara, the concubine of Mariotto's father, questioning moves away from the street fight itself to the right of the defendants to take revenge for violated family honor: accuser becomes accused, and a simple case of assault turns into a community's discussion of its most tenacious values. Lurching from comedy to tragedy and neglected even by local chroniclers, the Holy Thursday incident involved issues of honor, family, religion, gender relations, and power familiar to social historians of late medieval and early modern Europe. For the Medici ruler of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, the Holy Thursday affair presented a dilemma: bound to regard duels and street fights as threats to an all too fragile public order and a challenge to his sovereignty, Francesco I nevertheless respected and fostered the aristocratic code of honor, family loyalty, and chivalric valor to which the Cellesi appealed. How these contradictions were accommodated is a crucial part of the story Weinstein tells.