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This volume discusses the reception of Leonardo¿s artistic, theoretical and scientific work from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. It also examines the roles of collectors, intellectuals and artists in Britain in the transmission and transformation of his legacy. At stake is what role, or rather roles, Leonardo played in British art, aesthetics and scientific thought.Leonardo da Vinci¿s legacy in Britain has remained largely overshadow...

Giovanni Bastianini (1830-1868) was a Florentine sculptor whose creationsanswered to the growing demand for Renaissance and Renaissance-like works ofart during the second half of the 19th century. Arguably the most infamous andgifted imitator/faker of Italian Renaissance sculpture, he became a subject of greatcontroversy during his lifetime that continues to this day.This book examines Bastianini¿s total oeuvre, exploring the differencesbetwee...

The three books of Heron¿s Mechanics contain the first systematic theory of simple andcompound machines in the history of science, and many other remarkable mattersabout theoretical and practical mechanics, including three interesting unknowntheories by Archimedes. This treatise began to circulate among Western researchersthrough an Arabic manuscript discovered by Camille Carra de Vaux, who publishedit together with a French translation in 189...

This book, consisting of nine essays on the causes, on the figures involved and on the consequences of the decree, sheds light on various philosophical, theological, political and cultural aspects of the discussions that arose around the ¿temerity¿ of Copernicanism and that eventually led to its prohibition by the Church. These chapters form a mosaic whose pieces contribute to completing the picture outlined by other studies, while also adding...

The volume publishes the proceedings of the international conference held at the Ambrosiana Library in Milan in 2015. The essays provide an informed presentation of the new research centered on the figure of the great humanist and publisher Aldus Manutius. The fourteen interdisciplinary contributions by European and American authors offer a rich overview of the research trends of Aldine studies developed by scholars in recent decades. They inc...

The book offers an in-depth examination of the production, distribution, and use, from the late fifteenth century to the present, of the 74 editions ofBooks of Hours printed in Italy in the fifteenth century, 198 copies of whichhave survived. They are today in 82 libraries in 16 countries in Europe andNorth America. Special attention is paid to the transmission of the texts inprint, their stemma editionum, the cycle of illustrations, and the i...

Edizione annotata delle lettere ricevute in Italia dall'Abate Gomes Eanes, prelato portoghese a capo del Monastero di Santa Maria di Firenze (Badia Fiorentina) fra il 1419 e il 1439. I testi permettono di ricostruire nel dettaglio molte attività dell'abate e la sua comunicazione assidua con donne e uomini da diverse regioni d'Europa. Il volume include uno studio introduttivo proponendo una sintesi sulla vita e sulla carriera di Gomes Eanes, nu...

The success of Orlando furioso in Italian musical theatre is vast andcomplex. This book examines the main phases of the circulation and influenceof Orlando furioso on the seventeenth-century music scene by reconstructingan overall historical and critical profile, but also through the recovery andphilologically verified transcription of about forty dramatic texts derivedfrom Ariosto¿s main narrative currents.

Montale, the Modernist explores the historical contingencies and the scientific andphilosophical ideas that influenced the composition of Montale¿s poetry, offeringnew readings of, among others, ¿Non chiederci la parola¿, ¿Arsenio¿, ¿L¿alluvione¿ and¿Dialogo¿. Framing Montale alongside such figures as Eliot, Pound, Svevo, Larbaudand Joyce, the book explores the celebrated peculiarities of his poems as modernistinnovations, allowing a comprehen...

In Thinking About Liberty: An Historian¿s Approach, the eminent historian QuentinSkinner traces a path in the history of ideas that involves different ways of thinkingabout liberty ¿ a central concept in social and political thought in today¿s Westerndemocracies ¿ that are different from the usual liberal expectation. The definition offreedom as the absence of interference (by external agencies or by the self ), thoughwidespread, was by no mea...

From the bells in Tosca and the birdcalls in Madame Butterfly to the horns and sirensin Il tabarro and the music box melodies that inspired Turandot, Puccini¿s operas relyto an unprecedented degree on realistic and seemingly unmediated acoustic objects.Focusing on this pervasive if little discussed aspect of the composer¿s art, Puccini¿sSoundscapes uses the twin categories of sound and realism to rethink the shape ofPuccini¿s career, and to of...

What is the object of knowledge in literary studies? What is the relation between the academic study of literature and the public sphere? Terence Cave addresses these and other questions about the discipline as a human activity by inserting it into a wider interdisciplinary frame that is at once flexible and respectful of its special character ¿ a cognitive approach to the study of literature. Cave spent five years exploring this approach in a...

This volume records the discussions held during the international seminar organized in November 2014 in Pisa by the Italian National Research Council (CNR) at the Institute for Computational Linguistics (ILC), Pisa, as part of the European Resaerch Council project ¿Greek into Arabic, Philosophical Concepts and Linguistic Bridges¿. Generally, it advances the idea that the analysis and translation of texts, especially ancient ones, with the aid ...

Of Moon and Land, Ice and Strand encompasses the four elements constituting theprincipal directions of Lambeck¿s research over the past five decades: the Moon andartificial satellites, the Earth¿s surface, crust and deep interior, the ice sheets of thegeologically recent past, and aspects of the oceans and the coastal zones. In thislecture, Lambeck shows us what can be learnt from the analysis of past sea-leveldata, for example complementing g...

Cosa pensavano di denaro e ricchezza gli italiani nel Rinascimento? In quest'opera pubblicata per la prima volta nel 1940, Gino Barbieri traccia l'evoluzione della mentalità economica italiana attraverso l'analisi degli scritti di teologi, uomini di legge e di commercio. Dall'analisi emergono stupefacenti somiglianze tra l'uso dei mezzi finanziari di allora e quelli odierni, che rendono particolarmente attuale la ripubblicazione del saggio.

Styling the biography of a major composer as a chronological series oforiginal documents accompanied by ample commentaries, an idea pioneeredin O.E. Deutsch¿s Documentary Biography of Handel (1955), has the advantageof revealing with clarity and accuracy the true foundations of our biographicalknowledge of him. Micky White¿s new account of Antonio Vivaldi¿s life, whichuses not only well-known documents but also ones newly discovered by her and...