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The Court and Its Critics

Anti-Court Sentiments in Early Modern Italy

By: Paola Ugolini

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The Court and Its Critics

Anti-Court Sentiments in Early Modern Italy

By: Paola Ugolini

Anti-courtly discourse furnished a platform for discussing some of the most pressing questions of early modern Italian society. The court was the space that witnessed a new form of negotiation of identity and prestige, the definition of masculinity and of gender-specific roles, the birth of modern politics and of an ethics based on merit and on individual self-interest. The Court and Its Critics analyses anti-courtly critiques using a wide variety of sources including manuals of courtliness, dialogues, satires, and plays, from the mid-fifteenth to the early seventeenth century. The book is structured around four key figures that embody different features of anti-courtly sentiments. The figure of the courtier shows that sentiments against the court were present even among those who apparently benefitted from such a system of power. The court lady allows an investigation of the intertwining of anti-courtliness and anti-feminism. The satirist and the shepherd of pastoral dramas are investigated as attempts to fashion two different forms of a new self for the court intellectual.

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310

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University of Toronto Press

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1487532121

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9781487532123

A Life Devoted to Plutarch: Philology, Philosophy, and Reception

Selected Essays by Paola Volpe Cacciatore

By: Paola Volpe Cacciatore

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A Life Devoted to Plutarch: Philology, Philosophy, and Reception

Selected Essays by Paola Volpe Cacciatore

By: Paola Volpe Cacciatore

Philology, philosophy, commentary and reception in Plutarch's work are only some of the main topics discussed within a large academic output devoted to the writer of Chaeronea by Professor Paola Volpe Cacciatore. The volume is divided into four sections: Plutarchean Fragments, Quaestiones convivales, Religion & Philosophy, and Plutarch's Reception from Humanism to Modern Times. The eighteen studies collected in this volume, originally published in Italian and here translated into English, concern the Corpus Plutarcheum, including Table-Talks, De Iside et Osiride, the treatises against the Stoics, De genio Socratis, De liberis educandis, De musica, and some Plutarchean fragments. The volume is a tribute to celebrate the lifelong study of Plutarch's work by Professor Paola Volpe Cacciatore, one of the most remarkable Plutarchean scholars of the last decades.

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236

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BRILL

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9004448462

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9789004448469

The Law and Comedy

By: Giuseppe Rossi,Paola Carbone

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The Law and Comedy

By: Giuseppe Rossi,Paola Carbone

Despite their inherent seriousness, the law and those who practice it, be it lawyers, judges, politicians, or bureaucrats, are amongst the most popular objects of comedy and humour. Sometimes even the mention of the law, or the mere use of legal vocabulary, can trigger laughter. This is deeply counterintuitive, but true across cultures and historical eras: while the law is there to prevent and remedy injustice, it often ends up becoming the butt of comedy. But laughter and comedy, too, are also infused with seriousness: as universal social phenomena, they are extremely complex objects of study. This book maps out the many intersections of the law and laughter, from classical Greece to the present day. Taking on well-known classical and modern works of literature and visual culture, from Aristophanes to Laurel and Hardy and from Nietzsche to Totò and Fernandel, laughter and comedy bring law back to the complexity of human soul and the unpredictability of life.

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238

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3111286770

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9783111286778

Right-Wing Women

From Conservatives to Extremists Around the World

By: Paola Bacchetta,Margaret Power

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Right-Wing Women

From Conservatives to Extremists Around the World

By: Paola Bacchetta,Margaret Power

An oft-neglected subject, right-wing women are an important component in understanding the many racist, fascist, and anti-feminist movements of the 20th century. Providing original research on an array of right-wing groups around the world, the contributors paint a disturbing and complicated portrait of the women involved in these movements. From Mussolini supporters to Klanswomen, this collection provides an eye-opening look at extremist women.

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325

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Routledge

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1136615709

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9781136615702

The Court and Its Critics

Anti-Court Sentiments in Early Modern Italy

By: Paola Ugolini

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Anti-Court Sentiments in Early Modern Italy

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University of Toronto Press

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About Face

Depicting the Self in the Written and Visual Arts

By: Elena Bellina,Lindsay Eufusia,Paola Ugolini

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About Face

Depicting the Self in the Written and Visual Arts

By: Elena Bellina,Lindsay Eufusia,Paola Ugolini

How do we represent ouselves and the cultures we live in? Is it possible to trace any boundaries between reality and self-representation? Because the self represented is the product of a process of selection and choice, in many ways to represent the self is, often simultaneously, to create the self and negate the self. What, then, becomes of the self once it is represented? Because the process of self-representation cumulates in a tangible result and given that any representation of the self is necessarily a construct which aims to render visible or knowable in concrete form the unseen and unknown, self-representation is vulnerable to assessments of its naturalness or artificiality, its honesty or deceit. Many issues affect the author or artist’s self-representation, both as process and form: the medium through which the self will be represented, the motivation for representing oneself, and the role of the audience, to name only a few relevant factors. This book explores the multifaceted nature of self-representation in relation to culture from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance up to contemporary Italian, American and Australian culture with reference to concepts and questions connected to literature, poetry, philosophy, theology, history, ethnicity studies, gender studies, and visual arts.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443815888

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The Court and Its Critics

The Court and Its Critics

A Life Devoted to Plutarch: Philology, Philosophy, and Reception

A Life Devoted to Plutarch: Philology, Philosophy, and Reception

The Law and Comedy

The Law and Comedy

Right-Wing Women

Right-Wing Women

The Court and Its Critics

The Court and Its Critics

About Face

About Face

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