Italian Renaissance Drama
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Nicolò Aurelio, figlio di un funzionario del governo veneziano, seguì le orme del padre fino a raggiungere la più alta carica istituzionale cui poteva ambire un veneziano non appartenente alla nobiltà : quella di Cancelliere Grande. La... more
The epigraph that launches Pamela Allen Brown's book is the startling rhetorical question posed by Hieronimo, the protagonist of Thomas Kyd's blockbuster The Spanish Tragedy (ca. 1580s), as he is casting his climactic play-within-a-play... more
where she responds to a crux of Milton scholarship: the tension between militarism and quietism in this poem. Here she cannily notes how the seeming contradictions of Paradise Regained harmonize with larger patterns in Milton's society... more
where she responds to a crux of Milton scholarship: the tension between militarism and quietism in this poem. Here she cannily notes how the seeming contradictions of Paradise Regained harmonize with larger patterns in Milton's society... more
Little entreaty shall serve me, Hieronimo, For I must needs be employed in your play.-Bel-imperia, The Spanish Tragedy Thomas Kyd casts Bel-imperia as a star player in The Spanish Tragedy. She drives the plot forward, flirting ardently in... more
"For what's a play without a woman in it?" The mad Hieronymo's question in The Spanish Tragedy prompts Bel-Imperia to play her part to the hilt: she has two dead lovers to avenge, and slays her enemy onstage, in a brilliant tour de force... more
Conversion was a very pressing issue in early modern Europe. Christians often converted out of opportunism rather than belief, though declaring to having converted only outwardly to save themselves. In the same period, the Turkish ‘other’... more
Teatro Olimpico w Vicenzy. W hołdzie architekturze teatrów antycznych w renesansie niezlasztuka.net/podroze/teatro-olimpico-vicenza/ Teatro Olimpico był ostatnim ze zrealizowanych projektów znakomitego architekta Andrea Palladia, a... more
Among the surviving plays of Sophocles, Ajax is undoubtedly one of the most difficult to analyse in its scenic and dramaturgical traits, especially with regard to the way the suicide of the hero was performed. Beginning with an analysis... more
Following an interpretation overtly stated in the Middle Ages and Renaissance and supported by anthropological and behavioral research, I interpret the male and female figures in major Italian Renaissance comedies and paintings according... more
The city as a theater. Festivals and processions in Italian cities and courts, between the fourth and sixteenth centuries. On the occasion of the second centenary of the birth of Jacob Burckhardt (Basel 1818-1897). Ephemeral... more
The city as a theater. Festivals and processions in Italian cities and courts, between the fourth and sixteenth centuries. On the occasion of the second centenary of the birth of Jacob Burckhardt (Basel 1818-1897) Ephemeral... more
Project of Accademia Filarmonica di Verona, Conservatorio Statale di Musica di Verona and Fondazione Cariverona. The project aims to study and publish in a diplomatic edition (with summaries, essays and chronology) the documents produced... more
In the context of the feverish rediscovery of Aristotle’s Poetics, the Italian Renaissance saw a tremendous transformation, both in aesthetic forms and in poetological discourses. This renewal overlapped with the re-invention of drama... more
L'articolo si propone di analizzare, attraverso sondaggi più qualitativi che quantitativi, le varie strategie di riuso dei Fragmenta e dei Trionfi attuate da Lodovico Dolce nelle tragedie scritte dal 1543 al 1557. La relazione... more
«Storia di una recensione» Questa recensione mi era stata proposta dal comitato scientifico della rivista "Albertiana". Mentre stavo per consegnare il lavoro alla redazione, sono stata invitata a prepararne una versione ridotta per la... more