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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
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      Venetian HistoryTitianVenetian Renaissance artTitian, Tiziano Vecellio
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
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      Shakespearean DramaHistory of ActingActors and actressesItalian Renaissance Drama
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
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      Gender StudiesPerformance StudiesShakespearean DramaHistory of Acting
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
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      Gender StudiesRenaissance StudiesHistory of ActingPerformances Studies
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
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      ArtGender and SexualityShakespearean DramaItalian Renaissance literature
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      Theatre StudiesRenaissance StudiesItalian Renaissance Drama
"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
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      Shakespearean DramaThomas KydEarly Modern Women´s and Gender HistorySpanish Golden Age Theater
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
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      ComedyReligious ConversionOttoman EmpireTurks
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      Theatre StudiesItalian LiteratureRenaissance literatureSiena
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
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      Theatre HistoryItalian Renaissance ArchitectureRenaissance architectureAndrea Palladio
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
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      Greek Scholia and History of ScholarshipAncient Greek Dramaturgy and Performance Aspects
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      MusicologyItalian LiteratureRenaissance literatureRenaissance Lyric Poetry
from "La Reggia", December 2015, page 2
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      Jewish StudiesRenaissance StudiesRenaissance dramaRenaissance Drama (Renaissance Studies)
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      Renaissance dramaClassical Reception StudiesEarly Modern DramaSeneca's Tragedies
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      Greek TragedyRenaissance StudiesEarly Modern ItalyClassical Reception Studies
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press Series: Renaissance History, Art & Culture This book considers some of the main adaptations of the character of Cleopatra for the Renaissance stage, travelling from Italy to England to arrive finally... more
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      Shakespeare16th Century Dramatic LiteratureEarly Modern Drama: Text and PerformanceShakespearean Drama
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
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      Gender StudiesItalian Renaissance ArtCultural AnthropologyItalian Renaissance Drama
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      Greek TragedyTheatre StudiesReception StudiesTranslation Studies
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
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Le Théâtre au miroir des langues consiste à explorer les grandes notions théâtrales au moyen d’une étude lexicologique portant sur trois aires géolinguistiques : la France, l’Espagne et l’Italie des XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Divisé en huit... more
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      Theatre HistorySurpriseRecognitionRenaissance drama
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      PoeticsShakespearean DramaEarly Modern English dramaEmbodied and Enactive Cognition
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      Classical Reception StudiesSeneca's TragediesAncient Greek DramaOedipus
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      Renaissance StudiesRenaissance dramaRenaissance literatureItalian Renaissance literature
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      Greek TragedyStoicismClassical Reception StudiesSophocles
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
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      Greek TragedyRenaissance dramaClassical receptionHamartia
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      Renaissance dramaRenaissance literatureItalian Renaissance literatureTragedy
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
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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
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      PoeticsHistory of philologyItalian Renaissance literatureAristotle's Rhetoric and Poetics
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      Italian (European History)Italian StudiesItalian Cultural StudiesItalian Literature
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
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      Italian Renaissance literatureLiterary PolemicsRenaissance FerraraArt and power
«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
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      Greek translationItalian (European History)Dante StudiesCultural Heritage
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      Renaissance dramaPlautusLudovico AriostoItalian Medieval and Renaissance Theatre and Spectacle
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