Impresa Index
Impresa Index

Author: Mason Tung

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13:

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During the Renaissance, European royalties and noblemen and their wives bore imprese to express their aspirations as marks of distinction. Cosimo de' Medici, for example, had nine, whereas Rudolf II had sixteen imprese. An impresa (French devise, English device) consisted of a motto, a picture, and an explication in either verse or prose in which the bearer was named and his intention explained by both the word and the image. Collections of imprese were printed to preserve the marks of nobility (similar to heraldry) and became patterns for painters and artisans who put pictures on paintings, frescoes, and tapestries, even on ceiling and floor tiles. Using this Index, a tourist may find a phoenix on a tapestry to be the impresa of Alienor of Austria, Queen of France, on page 89 of a collection by Claude Paradin. Paradin's Devises heroiques, like a few other collections (by Giovio, Simeoni, Pittoni, Ruscelli, Contile, Camilli, Cappacio, Bargagli, and Typotius), has no index of any kind, making serious study of its imprese difficult. Some do have indices, but these do not meet the standards of modern research. translations, pictures, significance, bearers, and subjects, along with cross-references to standard handbooks of Valeriano's Hieroglyphica (1602), Picinelli's Mondus symbolicus (1694), and Henkel and Schone's Handbuch zur Sinnbildkunst des XVI. und XVII. Jahrhunderts (Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 1967, 1976, 1996). The Handbuch has become an indispensable tool in emblematic studies; it covers 40 emblem books with references to imprese from all ten collections indexed here. But without an impresa index of its own, it cannot identify an emblem by an impresa it has referenced. Appendix C of this Index, with references both from imprese to emblem books and from emblems to impresa books, will boost the usefulness of both research tools. This Index will be useful to impresa and emblem scholars, art and cultural historians, and even inquisitive tourists.

Adolfo Bioy Casares
Adolfo Bioy Casares

Author: Karl Posso

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2012-11-15

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1783165499

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Best known as Jorge Luis Borges’s right-hand man, Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914−1999) was, in his own right, an inventive writer of considerable skill. His works, often dismissed summarily as fantastic fiction, are now ripe for reassessment. This volume looks at Bioy’s extensive oeuvre which offers many surprising reflections on the twentieth century’s cultural, social and political transformations, both in Argentina and farther afield. Topics covered include Bioy’s meditations on isolation and logic, and his enduring fascination with the impact of photography on all artistic representation.

The International Emblem
The International Emblem

Author: Simon McKeown

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2010-02-19

Total Pages: 630

ISBN-13: 1443820067

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The emblem, a Renaissance literary genre which combined text and image, conveyed erudition, admonishment, propaganda, and piety with unparalleled concision and economy. It arose out of humanist circles in the early sixteenth century and quickly became established as a staple tool in religious, political, and social discourses across the major European languages. In recent years the emblem has come to be regarded by scholars working in all areas of the humanities and cultural studies as an interdisciplinary matrix of extraordinary utility in gaining insights into the mentalities and preoccupations of the early modern era. Within its apparently slender frame, the emblem embraces questions of foremost philological, semiotic, and iconographical importance, and encompasses ideas and assumptions of exceedingly far range and reach. This collection of essays attests to the pervasiveness of the emblem, both within Renaissance and Baroque Europe, and in those parts of the wider world where European influence came to bear. It seeks to follow the development of the emblem from its beginnings in various forms of bimedial artefact, from early illustrated books and hieroglyphs, to medals and ancient coins; we then witness its deployment as a propagandistic tool in the temporal and confessional disputes of Europe. Thereafter, the emblem appears in non-European contexts, emerging as a place of cultural exchange as it became assimilated within indigenous visual traditions. The latter parts of the book concentrate on the often subliminal role emblems played in diverse literary texts, as well as their ongoing vitality in praxis or in the burgeoning area of emblem scholarship within early modern studies.

The Italian Emblem
The Italian Emblem

Author: Donato Mansueto

Publisher: Librairie Droz

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780852618325

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The Italian Emblem: A Collection of Essays is the twelfth in the series 'Glasgow Emblem Studies'. This volume is linked to a project for the study and digitization of Italian emblem books held in the Stirling Maxwell Collection (Glasgow), financed by the Sixth EU Framework Programme for activities in the field of research. It aims at exploring the history, forms, themes of the Italian emblem tradition, with particular attention to sixteenth-century emblem books and their open, multifaceted, and metamorphic nature. To capture this nature, the volume includes contributions from different disciplines, ranging from literature to history of art and political philosophy, supplied by the following distinguished scholars: Guido Arbizzoni (University of Urbino 'Carlo Bo'), Monica Calabritto (Hunter College, CUNY), Giuseppe Cascione (University of Bari), Sonia Maffei (University of Bergamo), Anna Maranini (University of Bologna), Liana de Girolami Cheney (University of Massachusetts Lowell), Silvia Volterrani (CTL-Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa). French text.

Data Analysis and Classification
Data Analysis and Classification

Author: Francesco Palumbo

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-03-14

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 3642037399

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The volume provides results from the latest methodological developments in data analysis and classification and highlights new emerging subjects within the field. It contains articles about statistical models, classification, cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling, multivariate analysis, latent variables, knowledge extraction from temporal data, financial and economic applications, and missing values. Papers cover both theoretical and empirical aspects.

The Dealer Development Book
The Dealer Development Book

Author: Domenico Cocomile

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2011-11-20

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 1470926091

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This operating guide is aimed at sales directors, sales managers, dealer development managers, entrepreneurs who need support in the organization of their distribution networks, and also consultants who require applied tools for the management of a retail business. The book, offering a structured framework for developing and controlling a dealer sales network, is the result of industry-specific technical studies and, above all, the experience gained in the field during my career at CNH (Case New Holland) as a dealer development manager. It also includes many practical examples, charts and, whenever possible, benchmarks relevant to the Construction Equipment industry. Hence, some of the contents of this book are specifically related to the above-mentioned industry, but the whole methodology is obviously applicable to Agriculture, Truck and Automotive sectors too.

Literary Research and the British Renaissance and Early Modern Period
Literary Research and the British Renaissance and Early Modern Period

Author: Jennifer Bowers

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2010-04-13

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 0810874288

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This guide provides the best practices and reference resources, both print and electronic, that can be used in conducting research on literature of the British Renaissance and Early Modern Period. This volume seeks to address specific research characteristics integral to studying the period, including a more inclusive canon and the predominance of Shakespeare.

Transforming Urban Waterfronts
Transforming Urban Waterfronts

Author: Gene Desfor

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-10-04

Total Pages: 427

ISBN-13: 1136897712

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In port cities around the world, waterfront development projects have been hailed both as spaces of promise and as crucial territorial wedges in twenty-first century competitive growth strategies. Frequently, these mega-projects have been intended to transform derelict docklands into communities of hope with sustainable urban economies—economies intended to both compete in and support globally-networked hierarchies of cities. This collection engages with major theoretical debates and empirical findings on the ways waterfronts transform and have been transformed in port-cities in North and South America, Europe, the Caribbean. It is organized around the themes of fixities (built environments, institutional and regulatory structures, and cultural practices) and flows (information, labor, capital, energy, and knowledge), which are key categories for understanding processes of change. By focusing on these fixities and flows, the contributors to this volume develop new insights for understanding both historical and current cases of change on urban waterfronts, those special areas of cities where land and water meet. As such, it will be a valuable resource for teaching faculty, students, and any audience interested in a broad scope of issues within the field of urban studies.