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Author: Robert Black
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 871
ISBN-13: 9004158537
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScholarship on pre-university education in Italy before 1500 has been dominated by studies of individual towns or by general syntheses; this work offers not only an archival study of a region but also attempts to discern crucial local variations.
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jonathan Davies
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-10-25
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9004477594
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book makes a substantial contribution to the study of Florentine history. It answers an important but hitherto unresolved question: why did the Florentine Republic keep a university in its capital city between 1385 and 1473 rather than follow the example of other Italian states in maintaining a university in a subject town? Based on a wide range of newly-found sources, it discloses that the University owed its survival to the support of the Florentine elite, especially the Medici family and its followers. It reveals systematically the close ties between the University and major developments in the social, economic, political, ecclesiastical, and cultural life of Florence and Florentine Tuscany. The appendices fill some of the greatest gaps in our knowledge of the University, identifying administrators, students, examiners, and teachers.
Author: William J. Connell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780521548007
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of the best recent research on the Republic of Florence in Tuscany during the Renaissance.
Author: Richard T. Lindholm
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2017-01-02
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1783086378
DOWNLOAD EBOOKQuantitative Studies of the Renaissance Florentine Economy and Society is a collection of nine quantitative studies probing aspects of Renaissance Florentine economy and society. The collection, organized by topic, source material and analysis methods, discusses risk and return, specifically the population’s responses to the plague and also the measurement of interest rates. The work analyzes the population’s wealth distribution, the impact of taxes and subsidies on art and architecture, the level of neighborhood segregation and the accumulation of wealth. Additionally, this study assesses the competitiveness of Florentine markets and the level of monopoly power, the nature of women’s work and the impact of business risk on the organization of industrial production.
Author: Angela Dressen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-09-02
Total Pages: 731
ISBN-13: 1108918328
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScholars have traditionally viewed the Italian Renaissance artist as a gifted, but poorly educated craftsman whose complex and demanding works were created with the assistance of a more educated advisor. These assumptions are, in part, based on research that has focused primarily on the artist's social rank and workshop training. In this volume, Angela Dressen explores the range of educational opportunities that were available to the Italian Renaissance artist. Considering artistic formation within the history of education, Dressen focuses on the training of highly skilled, average artists, revealing a general level of learning that was much more substantial than has been assumed. She emphasizes the role of mediators who had a particular interest in augmenting artists' knowledge, and highlights how artists used Latin and vernacular texts to gain additional knowledge that they avidly sought. Dressen's volume brings new insights into a topic at the intersection of early modern intellectual, educational, and art history.
Author: Nicolino Applauso
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2019-11-13
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 1498567797
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDante's Comedy and the Ethics of Invective in Medieval Italy proposes a new approach to invective and comic poetry in Italy during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and opens the way for an innovative understanding of Dante’s masterpiece. The Middle Ages in Italy offer a wealth of vernacular poetic invectives—polemical verses aimed at blaming specific wrongdoings of an individual, group, city or institution— that are both understudied and rarely juxtaposed. No study has yet provided a scholarly examination of the connection between this medieval invective tradition, and its elements of humor, derision, and reprehension in Dante’s Comedy. This book argues that these comic texts are rooted in and actively engaged with the social, political, and religious conflicts of their time. Political invective has a dynamic ethical orientation that is mediated by a humor that disarms excessive hostility against its individual targets, providing an opening for dialogue. While exploring medieval comic poems by Rustico Filippi (from Florence), Cecco Angiolieri (from Siena), and Folgore da San Gimignano, this study unveils new biographical data about these poets retrieved from Italian state archives (most of these data are published here in English for the very first time), and ultimately shows what the medieval invective tradition can add to our understanding of Dante’s Comedy.
Author: Wolfgang Lutz
Publisher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Published: 2017-07-14
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 1928357369
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"e;This scholarly yet highly accessible volume by two renowned experts shows why education is under threat, and what should be done to counter this. The authors mobilise a fascinating array of compelling historical and current evidence which demonstrates the centrality of education to the creation of flourishing societies and show the dire consequences of its neglect. Anyone interested in education and development should read this book."e; - Professor Ian Goldin, University of Oxford
Author: Jonathan Davies
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-08-16
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9004464867
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTen essays by eminent scholars in Renaissance studies to celebrate the work of Robert Black. These essays analyze education, humanism, political thought, printing, and the visual arts during this key period in their development.
