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Reform before the Reformation: Vincenzo Querini and the Religious Renaissance in Italy

By: Stephen David Bowd

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Reform before the Reformation: Vincenzo Querini and the Religious Renaissance in Italy

By: Stephen David Bowd

An important aspect of the Italian Renaissance was church reform. This book examines the nature of that reform - especially in Venice, Florence and Rome - as viewed through the unpublished manuscripts of a Venetian nobleman who became a Camaldolese hermit: Vincenzo Querini (1478-1514). This book sets Querini's personal journey to reform in the context of Venetian society, as well as against the backdrop of political crisis, cultural revival, and monastic renaissance in Italy generally. Querini's attempt to reform himself, the Roman Catholic Church, and the whole of Christendom are of interest to historians seeking to revise the chronology of early modern church reform since he employed a range of scriptural, humanist, conciliar, monastic, and mystical methods that had medieval antecedents but were also imitated by reformers after the Reformation.

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BRILL

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9004475729

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9789004475724

Renaissance Mass Murder

Civilians and Soldiers During the Italian Wars

By: Stephen D. Bowd

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Renaissance Mass Murder

Civilians and Soldiers During the Italian Wars

By: Stephen D. Bowd

Renaissance Mass Murder explores the devastating impact of war on the men and women of the Renaissance. In contrast to the picture of balance and harmony usually associated with the Renaissance, it uncovers in forensic detail a world in which sacks of Italian cities and massacres of civilians at the hands of French, German, Spanish, Swiss, and Italian troops were regular occurrences. The arguments presented are based on a wealth of evidence - histories and chronicles, poetry and paintings, sculpture and other objects - which together provide a new and startling history of sixteenth-century Italy and a social history of the Italian Wars. It outlines how massacres happened, how princes, soldiers, lawyers, and writers justified and explained such events, and how they were represented in contemporary culture. On this basis, Renaissance Mass Murder reconstructs the terrifying individual experiences of civilians in the face of war and in doing so offers a story of human tragedy which redresses the balance of the history of the Italian Wars, and of Renaissance warfare, in favour of the civilian and away from the din of battle. This volume also places mass murder in a broader historical context and challenges claims that such violence was unusual or in decline in early modern Europe. Finally, it shows that women often suffered disproportionately from this violence and that immunity for them, as for their children, was often partially developed or poorly respected.

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303

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Oxford University Press

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0192568787

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9780192568786

Venice's Most Loyal City

Civic Identity in Renaissance Brescia

By: Stephen D. Bowd

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Venice's Most Loyal City

Civic Identity in Renaissance Brescia

By: Stephen D. Bowd

By the second decade of the fifteenth century Venice had established an empire in Italy extending from its lagoon base to the lakes, mountains, and valleys of the northwestern part of the peninsula. The wealthiest and most populous part of this empire was the city of Brescia which, together with its surrounding territory, lay in a key frontier zone between the politically powerful Milanese and the economically important Germans. Venetian governance there involved political compromise and some sensitivity to local concerns, and Brescians forged their distinctive civic identity alongside a strong Venetian cultural presence. Based on archival, artistic, and architectural evidence, Stephen Bowd presents an innovative microhistory of a fascinating, yet historically neglected city. He shows how Brescian loyalty to Venice was repeatedly tested by a succession of disasters: assault by Milanese forces, economic downturn, demographic collapse, and occupation by French and Spanish armies intent on dismembering the Venetian empire. In spite of all these troubles the city experienced a cultural revival and a dramatic political transformation under Venetian rule, which Bowd describes and uses to illuminate the process of state formation in one of the most powerful regions of Renaissance Italy.

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375

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Harvard University Press

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0674060563

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9780674060562

The Endless Periphery

Toward a Geopolitics of Art in Lorenzo Lotto's Italy

By: Stephen J. Campbell

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The Endless Periphery

Toward a Geopolitics of Art in Lorenzo Lotto's Italy

By: Stephen J. Campbell

While the masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance are usually associated with Italy’s historical seats of power, some of the era’s most characteristic works are to be found in places other than Florence, Rome, and Venice. They are the product of the diversity of regions and cultures that makes up the country. In Endless Periphery, Stephen J. Campbell examines a range of iconic works in order to unlock a rich series of local references in Renaissance art that include regional rulers, patron saints, and miracles, demonstrating, for example, that the works of Titian spoke to beholders differently in Naples, Brescia, or Milan than in his native Venice. More than a series of regional microhistories, Endless Periphery tracks the geographic mobility of Italian Renaissance art and artists, revealing a series of exchanges between artists and their patrons, as well as the power dynamics that fueled these exchanges. A counter history of one of the greatest epochs of art production, this richly illustrated book will bring new insight to our understanding of classic works of Italian art.

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374

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University of Chicago Press

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022648159X

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9780226481593

Australia's Megafires

Biodiversity Impacts and Lessons from 2019-2020

By: Stephen van Leeuwen,Brendan A. Wintle,John C.Z. Woinarski,Libby Rumpff,Sarah M. Legge

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Australia's Megafires

Biodiversity Impacts and Lessons from 2019-2020

By: Stephen van Leeuwen,Brendan A. Wintle,John C.Z. Woinarski,Libby Rumpff,Sarah M. Legge

The Australian wildfires of 2019–20 (Black Summer) were devastating and unprecedented. These megafires burnt more than 10 million hectares, mostly of forests in southern and eastern Australia. Many of the fires were uncontrollable. These megafires affected many of Australia’s most important conservation areas and severely impacted threatened species and ecological communities. They were a consequence of climate change – and offered a glimpse of how this is likely to continue to affect our future. Australia’s Megafires includes contributions by more than 200 researchers and managers with direct involvement in the management and conservation of the biodiversity affected by the Black Summer wildfires. It provides a comprehensive review of the impacts of these fires on all components of biodiversity, and on Indigenous cultural values. These fires also triggered an extraordinary and highly collaborative response by governments, NGOs, Indigenous groups, scientists, landholders and others, seeking to recover the fire-affected species and environments – to restore Country. This book documents that response. It draws lessons that should be heeded to sustain that recovery and to be better prepared for the inevitable future comparable catastrophes. Such lessons are of global relevance, for wildfires increasingly threaten biodiversity and livelihoods across the globe.

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CSIRO PUBLISHING

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1486316654

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9781486316656

Managing Corporate Communication

A Cross-Cultural Approach

By: Rossella Gambetti,Stephen Quigley

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Managing Corporate Communication

A Cross-Cultural Approach

By: Rossella Gambetti,Stephen Quigley

Corporate communication is an increasingly powerful strategic tool for connecting with a company's stakeholders. This book features contributions from leading international academics, combining a strong theoretical grounding and the latest research with a practical, managerial focus. Ideal for students and practitioners of corporate communications.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137292571

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9781137292575

The Sonnet

By: Stephen Regan

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The Sonnet

By: Stephen Regan

The Sonnet provides a comprehensive study of one of the oldest and most popular forms of poetry, widely used by Shakespeare, Milton and Wordsworth, and still used today by poets such as Seamus Heaney, Tony Harrison and Carol Ann Duffy. This book traces the development of the sonnet from its origins in medieval Italy to its widespread acceptance in modern Britain, Ireland and America. It shows how the sonnet emerges from the aristocratic courtly centres of Renaissance Europe and gradually becomes the chosen form of radical political poets such as Milton. The book draws on detailed critical analysis of some of the best-known sonnets written in English to explain how the sonnet functions as a poetic form, and it argues that the flexibility and versatility of the sonnet have given it a special place in literary history and tradition.

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Oxford University Press

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0192893076

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9780192893079

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Reform before the Reformation: Vincenzo Querini and the Religious Renaissance in Italy

Reform before the Reformation: Vincenzo Querini and the Religious Renaissance in Italy

Renaissance Mass Murder

Renaissance Mass Murder

Venice's Most Loyal City

Venice's Most Loyal City

The Endless Periphery

The Endless Periphery

Australia's Megafires

Australia's Megafires

Managing Corporate Communication

Managing Corporate Communication

The Sonnet

The Sonnet

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