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Histories of a Plague Year

The Social and the Imaginary in Baroque Florence

By: Giulia Calvi

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Histories of a Plague Year

The Social and the Imaginary in Baroque Florence

By: Giulia Calvi

A dramatic and highly interesting story--one that brings to life the complexities of plague and of piety."--Natalie Zemon Davis, Princeton University

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Univ of California Press

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0520057996

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9780520057999

The World in Dress

Costume Books across Italy, Europe, and the East

By: Giulia Calvi

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The World in Dress

Costume Books across Italy, Europe, and the East

By: Giulia Calvi

In the early modern period costume books and albums participated in the shaping of a new visual culture that displayed the diversity of the people of the known world on a variety of media including maps, atlases, screens, and scrolls. At the crossroads of early anthropology, geography, and travel literature, this textual and visual production blurred the lines between art and science. Costume books and albums were not a unique European production: in the Ottoman Empire and the Far East artists and geographers also pictured the dress of men and women of their own and faraway lands hybridizing the Renaissance western tradition. Acknowledging this circulation of knowledge and people through migration, travel, missionary and diplomatic encounters, this Element contributes to the expanding field of early modern cultural studies in a global perspective.

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174

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Cambridge University Press

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1108916295

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Urania

A Romance

By: Giulia Bigolina

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Urania

A Romance

By: Giulia Bigolina

Presented for the first time in a critical English edition, Urania: A Romance provides modern readers with a rare glimpse into the novel and novella forms at a time when narrative genres were not only being invented but, in the hands of women like Giulia Bigolina (1518?-1569?), used as vehicles for literary experimentation. The first known prose romance written by a woman in Italian, Bigolina's Urania centers on the monomaniacal love of a female character falling into melancholy when her beloved leaves her for a more beautiful woman. A tale that includes many of the conventions that would later become standards of the genre—cross-dressing, travel, epic skirmishes, and daring deeds—Urania also contains the earliest treatise on the worth of women. Also included in this volume, the novella Giulia Camposampiero is the only extant part of a probable longer narrative written in the style of the Decameron. While employing some of those same gender and role reversals as Urania, including the privileging of heroic constancy in both men and women, it chronicles the tribulations that a couple undergoes until their secret marriage is publicly recognized.

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228

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University of Chicago Press

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0226048799

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9780226048796

The Lyon Terence

Its Tradition and Legacy

By: Giulia Torello-Hill,Andrew J. Turner

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The Lyon Terence

Its Tradition and Legacy

By: Giulia Torello-Hill,Andrew J. Turner

An interdisciplinary approach to establish the significance of the first illustrated edition of the plays of Terence, its commentary and iconographic traditions and legacy in sixteenth-century Italy and France.

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312

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BRILL

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900443240X

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9789004432406

Milan 360°

A metropolis to discover, among art, culture, technology and fashion

By: Stefano Olivari,Giulia Brasca

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Milan 360°

A metropolis to discover, among art, culture, technology and fashion

By: Stefano Olivari,Giulia Brasca

Milan, known worldwide as the economic and fashion capital of Italy, is one of the most advanced cities in the world which, in its completely urbanized area of almost 181.76km², includes also wonderful shops and a great social life, besides, of course, art, a university culture, excellent food and traditions recognizable in everyday life and in daily habits; for example, the rediscovery of the small markets as a place to meet and have a chat, or going for a walk with the family in the streets of the centre. It is not at all easy to determine what is in the name “Milan”: first of all, it refers to a municipality with about 1,300,000 inhabitants, but also to an urban area with about 3,900,000 inhabitants also known as the “Greater Milan” and finally, to a metropolitan area of 7,400,000 inhabitants. Nevertheless, the city is identified by its symbols, and our intention is to introduce you to every aspect of the city of Milan through virtual photographs, texts and some curiosities. It is worth visiting Milan to learn the many realities that surround this city, from the entrepreneurial vocation to the connection with tradition: only by knowing the richness of the past can we confront the present. Enjoy your visit!

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405

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OlliService Multimedia

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889929805X

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9788899298050

Histories of a Plague Year

The Social and the Imaginary in Baroque Florence

By: Giulia Calvi

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Histories of a Plague Year

The Social and the Imaginary in Baroque Florence

By: Giulia Calvi

A dramatic and highly interesting story--one that brings to life the complexities of plague and of piety."--Natalie Zemon Davis, Princeton University

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Univ of California Press

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The World in Dress

Costume Books across Italy, Europe, and the East

By: Giulia Calvi

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Costume Books across Italy, Europe, and the East

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Histories of a Plague Year

Histories of a Plague Year

The World in Dress

The World in Dress

Urania

Urania

The Lyon Terence

The Lyon Terence

Milan 360°

Milan 360°

Histories of a Plague Year

Histories of a Plague Year

The World in Dress

The World in Dress

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