A Companion to Pietro Aretino

A Companion to Pietro Aretino

Author: Marco Faini

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-08-16

Total Pages: 622

ISBN-13: 9004465197

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An interdisciplinary exploration of one of the most prolific and controversial figures of early modern Europe. This volume is comprised of seven sections, each devoted to a specific aspect Aretino’s life and works.


The Strait Gate

The Strait Gate

Author: Daniel Jütte

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2015-09-22

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 0300216408

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Exploring a chapter in the cultural history of the West not yet probed, The Strait Gate demonstrates how doors, gates, and related technologies such as the key and the lock have shaped the way we perceive and navigate the domestic and urban spaces that surround us in our everyday lives. Jütte reveals how doors have served as sites of power, exclusion, and inclusion, as well as metaphors for salvation in the course of Western history. More than any other parts of the house, doors are objects onto which we project our ideas of, and anxieties about, security, privacy, and shelter. Drawing on a wide range of archival, literary, and visual sources, as well as on research literature across various disciplines and languages, this book pays particular attention to the history of the practices that have developed over the centuries in order to handle and control doors in everyday life.