An Italian Renaissance Sextet: Six Tales in Historical Context (Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library) - Softcover

Buch 1 von 37: Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library

Martines, Lauro

 
9780802086501: An Italian Renaissance Sextet: Six Tales in Historical Context (Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0802086500 ISBN 13: 9780802086501
Verlag: University of Toronto Press, 2004

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An Italian Renaissance Sextet is a collection of six tales offering a unique view of the history of Renaissance Italy, with fiction and fictional modes becoming gateways to a real, historical world. All written between 1400 and 1500 - among them a rare gem by Lorenzo the Magnificent and a famous account featuring Filippo Brunelleschi - the stories are presented here in lively translations.

As engrossing, fresh, and high-spirited as those in Boccaccio's Decameron, the tales deal with marriage, deception, rural manners, gender relations, social ambitions, adultery, homosexuality, and the demands of individual identity. Each is accompanied by an essay, in which Lauro Martines situates the story in its temporal context, transforming it into an outright historical document. The stories and essays focus mainly on people from the ordinary and middling ranks of society, as they go about their ordinary lives, under the pressure of a highly practical, conformist, pleasure-loving (but often cruel) urban society. Revealing the concerns of a searching historical work with a combined anthropological, demographic, and cultural slant, An Italian Renaissance Sextet shines a probing light on Italian Renaissance culture.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Murtha Baca’s translations include several manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci, An Italian Renaissance Sextet: Six Tales in Historical Context (edited by Lauro Martines) and Pellegrino Artusi’s Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well.


Lauro Martines is an author and independent scholar who has taught history in Los Angeles, London, and Paris. Murtha Baca is head of the Standards and Vocabulary Programs at the Getty Research Institute.

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Verlag
University of Toronto Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0802086500
ISBN 13 
9780802086501
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
288
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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Breda
4831 GR
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