La Chiesa Nella Citt
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Invisible City
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Author : Helen Hills
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2004-01-25
Invisible City written by Helen Hills and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-25 with Architecture categories.
More than any other European city, Baroque Naples was dominated by convents. Behind their imposing facades and highly decorated churches, the convents of Naples housed the daughters of the city's most exclusive families, women who, despite their cloistered existence, were formidable players in the city's power structure. Invisible City vividly portrays the religious world of seventeenth-century Naples, a city of familial and internecine rivalries, of religious devotion and intense urban politics, of towering structures built to house the virgin daughters of the aristocracy. Helen Hills demonstrates how the architecture of the convents and the nuns' bodies they housed existed both in parallel and in opposition to one another. She discusses these women as subjects of enclosure, as religious women, and as art patrons, but also as powerful agents whose influence extended beyond the convent walls. Though often ensconced in convents owing to their families' economic circumstances, many of these young women were able to extend their influence as a result of the role convents played both in urban life and in art patronage. The convents were rich and powerful organizations, riven with feuds and prey to the ambitions of viceregal and elite groups, which their thick walls could not exclude. Even today, Neapolitan convents figure prominently in the city's fabric. In analyzing the architecture of these august institutions, Helen Hills skillfully reads conventual architecture as a metaphor for the body of the aristocratic virgin nun, mapping out the dialectic between flesh and stone.
Honoring God And The City
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Author : Jonathan Glixon
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2008-06-01
Honoring God And The City written by Jonathan Glixon and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-01 with Music categories.
This is the first detailed history of musical activities at Venetian lay confraternities. Based on over two decades of research in Venetian archives, the book traces musical practices from the origins of the earliest confraternities in the mid-thirteenth century through their suppression under the French and Austrian governments of Venice in the early nineteenth century. The first section of the book treats the scuole grandi, the largest and most important of the Venetian confraternities, and the only ones to maintain musical establishments for long periods. The second portion of the book is concerned with the scuole piccole, the numerous less-important confraternities, sometimes as many as 300 of which were active simultaneously, located in churches throughout Venice. Appendices include an attempt to reconstruct a calendar of musical events at all Venetian confraternities in the early eighteenth century, demonstrating the vital role they played in the cultural and ceremonial life of this great city.
Londra
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: EDT srl
Release Date : 2012
Londra written by and has been published by EDT srl this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Travel categories.
A Great And Wretched City
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Author : Mark Jurdjevic
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2014-03-10
A Great And Wretched City written by Mark Jurdjevic and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-10 with History categories.
Like many inhabitants of booming metropolises, Machiavelli alternated between love and hate for his native city. He often wrote scathing remarks about Florentine political myopia, corruption, and servitude, but also wrote about Florence with pride, patriotism, and confident hope of better times. Despite the alternating tones of sarcasm and despair he used to describe Florentine affairs, Machiavelli provided a stubbornly persistent sense that his city had all the materials and potential necessary for a wholesale, triumphant, and epochal political renewal. As he memorably put it, Florence was "truly a great and wretched city." Mark Jurdjevic focuses on the Florentine dimension of Machiavelli's political thought, revealing new aspects of his republican convictions. Through The Prince, Discourses, correspondence, and, most substantially, Florentine Histories, Jurdjevic examines Machiavelli's political career and relationships to the republic and the Medici. He shows that significant and as yet unrecognized aspects of Machiavelli's political thought were distinctly Florentine in inspiration, content, and purpose. From a new perspective and armed with new arguments, A Great and Wretched City reengages the venerable debate about Machiavelli's relationship to Renaissance republicanism. Dispelling the myth that Florentine politics offered Machiavelli only negative lessons, Jurdjevic argues that his contempt for the city's shortcomings was a direct function of his considerable estimation of its unrealized political potential.
Venice Lion City
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Author : Garry Wills
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2002-09-03
Venice Lion City written by Garry Wills and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-03 with History categories.
Now in paperback, Wills's acclaimed book presents a new way of relating the history of the city through its art and, in turn, illuminates the art through the city's history. Illustrated with more than 130 works of art, 30 in full color.
City Of Saints
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Author : Maya Maskarinec
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2018-04-10
City Of Saints written by Maya Maskarinec and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-10 with History categories.
City of Saints explores how Byzantine Rome naturalized saints from throughout the Mediterranean world to build a new sacred topography. As a result, an exhausted city with a limited Christian presence metamorphosed into the spiritual center of Western Christianity.
Venice S Most Loyal City
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Author : Stephen D. Bowd
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2010-11
Venice S Most Loyal City written by Stephen D. Bowd and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11 with History categories.
This innovative microhistory of a fascinating yet neglected city shows how its loyalty to Venice was tested by military attack, economic downturn, and demographic collapse. Despite these trials, Brescia experienced cultural revival and political transformation, which Bowd uses to explain state formation in a powerful region of Renaissance Italy.
City And Countryside In Late Medieval And Renaissance Italy
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Author : Trevor Dean
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 1990-07-01
City And Countryside In Late Medieval And Renaissance Italy written by Trevor Dean and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-07-01 with History categories.
This book brings together challenging new essays from some of the leaders in Italian scholarship in three countries, to show the range of work that is currently being done not only on Florence but also on Naples, Ferrara and Lucca and on the relationship between cities and countryside.
Chromatius Of Aquileia And The Making Of A Christian City
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Author : Robert McEachnie
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-07-06
Chromatius Of Aquileia And The Making Of A Christian City written by Robert McEachnie and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-06 with History categories.
Chromatius of Aquileia and the Making of a Christian City examines how the increasing authority of institutionalized churches changed late antique urban environments. Aquileia, the third largest city in Italy during late antiquity, presents a case study in the transformation of elite Roman practices in relation to the urban environment. Through the archaeological remains, the sermons of the city’s bishop, Chromatius, and the artwork and epigraphic evidence in the sacred buildings, the city and its inhabitants leave insights into a reshaping of the urban environment and its institutions which occurred at the beginning of the 5th century. The words of the bishop attacking heretics and Jews presaged a shift in patronage by rich donors from the city as a whole to only the Christian church. The city, both as an ideal and a physical reality, changed with the growing dominance of the Church, creating a Christian city.
Jewish Inscriptions Of Western Europe Volume 1 Italy Excluding The City Of Rome Spain And Gaul
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Author : David Noy
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-03-07
Jewish Inscriptions Of Western Europe Volume 1 Italy Excluding The City Of Rome Spain And Gaul written by David Noy and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-07 with History categories.
The first readily-accessible and completely up to date survey of the Jewish inscriptions of Western Europe.