Interpreting the Renaissance
Interpreting the Renaissance

Author: Manfredo Tafuri

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13: 9780300111583

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"Tafuri studies the theory and practice of Renaissance architecture, offering new and compelling readings of its various social, intellectual, and cultural contexts while providing a broad understanding of uses of representation that shaped the entire era. He synthesizes the history of architectural ideas and projects through discussions of the great centers of architectural innovation in Italy (Florence, Rome, and Venice), key patrons from the middle of the fifteenth century (Pope Nicholas V) to the early sixteenth century (Pope Leo X), and crucial figures such as Leon Battista Alberti, Filippo Brunelleschi, Lorenzo de'Medici, Raphael, Baldassare Castiglione, and Giulio Romano. Interpreting the Renaissance is an essential book for anyone interested in the architecture and culture of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy."--BOOK JACKET.

Reading the Renaissance
Reading the Renaissance

Author: Jonathan Locke Hart

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780815323556

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First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Dragoman Renaissance
The Dragoman Renaissance

Author: E. Natalie Rothman

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2021-03-15

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 1501758489

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In The Dragoman Renaissance, E. Natalie Rothman traces how Istanbul-based diplomatic translator-interpreters, known as the dragomans, systematically engaged Ottoman elites in the study of the Ottoman Empire—eventually coalescing in the discipline of Orientalism—throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Rothman challenges Eurocentric assumptions still pervasive in Renaissance studies by showing the centrality of Ottoman imperial culture to the articulation of European knowledge about the Ottomans. To do so, she draws on a dazzling array of new material from a variety of archives. By studying the sustained interactions between dragomans and Ottoman courtiers in this period, Rothman disrupts common ideas about a singular moment of "cultural encounter," as well as about a "docile" and "static" Orient, simply acted upon by extraneous imperial powers. The Dragoman Renaissance creatively uncovers how dragomans mediated Ottoman ethno-linguistic, political, and religious categories to European diplomats and scholars. Further, it shows how dragomans did not simply circulate fixed knowledge. Rather, their engagement of Ottoman imperial modes of inquiry and social reproduction shaped the discipline of Orientalism for centuries to come. Thanks to generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, through The Sustainable History Monograph Pilot, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.

Printing and Reading Italian Latin Humanism in Renaissance Europe (ca. 1470-ca. 1540)
Printing and Reading Italian Latin Humanism in Renaissance Europe (ca. 1470-ca. 1540)

Author: Alejandro Coroleu

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2014-06-02

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1443861057

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With the advent of the printing press throughout Europe in the last quarter of the fifteenth century, the key Latin texts of Italian humanism began to be published outside Italy, most of them by a small group of printers who, in most cases, worked in close collaboration with lecturers and teachers. This study provides the first comprehensive account of the dissemination of this important literary corpus in Spain, France, the Low Countries and the German-speaking world between ca. 1470 and ca. 1540. By combining an examination of book production and consumption with attention to the educational system of Renaissance Europe, this book highlights both the historical significance of the Latin literature of Italian humanism within the school and university curriculum of the time, and the impact of such a body of texts on the rising national literary traditions, in Latin and in the vernacular, of the period. Printing and Reading Italian Latin Humanism in Renaissance Europe will appeal to scholars of classical and Renaissance literature, and to anyone interested in intellectual history and in the history of education in the Renaissance. It will be of particular interest to scholars in Hispanic studies.

Faith, Gender and the Senses in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art
Faith, Gender and the Senses in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art

Author: Professor Lisa M Rafanelli

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2015-06-28

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1472444736

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Taking the Noli me tangere and Doubting Thomas episodes as a focal point, this study examines how visual representations of two of the most compelling and related Christian stories engaged with changing devotional and cultural ideals in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. By reuniting their visual examples with important, often little-known textual sources, the authors reveal a complex relationship between visual imagery, the senses, contemporary attitudes toward gender, and the shaping of belief.

Interpreting Proclus
Interpreting Proclus

Author: Stephen Gersh

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-09-15

Total Pages: 421

ISBN-13: 0521198496

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Stephen Gersch charts the influence of the late Greek philosopher Proclus from his own lifetime down to the Renaissance (500-1600 CE).

Interpretation and Meaning in the Renaissance
Interpretation and Meaning in the Renaissance

Author: Ian Maclean

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992-03-27

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780521415460

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This book examines Renaissance modes of interpretation as they arise in legal contexts, and relates them to modern debates about meaning and its determination. By placing legal hermeneutic theories in their institutional and pedagogical contexts, the author is able to give an account of Renaissance thought showing how it operates in its own terms, and in relation to the thought of the medieval period. Renaissance legal thought is also compared to modern discussions of interpretation, allowing a critical examination of its coherence and consistency.