Absence and Desire in Michelangelo's Poetry: Literary Tradition and the Lesson(s) of the Manuscript

Contributor(s): Gregory L. Lucente

Acciarino, Damiano. Lettere sulle grottesche (1580–1581)

Contributor(s): Marco Piana

Acknowledgements

Contributor(s): Gabriel Niccoli

Acknowledgements

Contributor(s): Delia De Santis

Action Figures in Shakespeare’s Lucrece

Contributor(s): John Baxter

Lorsqu’à la suite d’une longue série d’apostrophes à la Nuit, la Chance, et le Temps, Lucrèce dénonce sa propre façon de se plaindre et condamne ses vaines paroles, elle utilise de nouveau l’apostrophe, transformant ainsi ses mots en action d’une façon particulière, désignée par la «figure...

Actors and Structures in Machiavelli’s Istorie Fiorentine

Contributor(s): Sverre Bagge

This article examines Machiavelli's understanding of the relationship between actors and structures in the history of Florence through a study of five selected episodes in the Istorie Fiorentine. Together, these episodes show the gradual decline of virtue in the city, from the relatively healthy...

Ad divinarum rerum cognitionem. Petrus Mosellanus and Jacobus Latomus on biblical or scholastic theology

Contributor(s): Wim François

La question de savoir comment les théologiens pouvaient arriver à une meilleure connaissance de Dieu était au cœur du débat du XVIe siècle entre théologiens catholiques et humanistes. Cet article propose une étude des différentes positions de l'humaniste de Leipzig, Petrus Mosellanus, et du...

Ad dotandum puellas virgines, pauperes et honestas: Social Needs and Confraternal Charity in Rome in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

Contributor(s): Anna Esposito

In the late fifteenth century, Roman confraternities, especially that of SS. Annunziata, provided dowries for poor but "honest" girls. This charitable work was in response to the growing needs of a relatively defenceless segment of a society that was undergoing rapid transformation. This study of...

Ada Negri: una scrittrice fascista?

Contributor(s): Patrizia Guida

Adam Ledgeway and Martin Maiden, eds. The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages

Contributor(s): Kevin B. Reynolds

Adams, Robyn, ed. and technical director. The Diplomatic Correspondence of Thomas Bodley, 1585–1597. Database

Contributor(s): Gabriella Mazzon

Additional Sources for French Politico-Religious History (1562-1646) in the University of Toronto Library

2023-06-22 19:15:15 | Contributor(s): Edmund M. Beame

Additions to the Survey of Renaissance Biological Books

2023-04-18 19:52:50 | Contributor(s): F. D. Hoeniger

Adoption, Motherhood, Domestication: The Role of the Child in Antonio Capuano’s La guerra di Mario

Contributor(s): Patrizia Bettella

The long-lasting interest for the child as vehicle of social critique in Italian cinema from Neorealism to the present leads to some reflection on the film La Guerra di Mario (2005) by Neapolitan director  Antonio Capuano. Capuano tackles the modern theme of the failed adoption of Mario, a...

Advice from a Brigantessa

Contributor(s): Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli

Africaines esclaves au Portugal: dynamiques d'exclusion, d'intégration et d'assimilation à l'époque moderne (XVe-XVIe siècles)

Contributor(s): António de Almeida Mendes

Between 1440 and 1640, from 300,000 to 350,000 African slaves were forcefully moved from sub-Saharan Africa to the Iberic Peninsula. Mostly female and young, this population was led to Portugal, to live among different cultural practices-in a society where the smallest religious, ethnic, or...

After Shylock: The "Judaiser" in England

Contributor(s): Lloyd Edward Kermode

In Elizabethan England it was common to blame the country's economic problems on some hated Other, in most cases the Jews who came to represent the stereotypical usurer. This paper investigates how two plays — William Haughton's Englishmen For My Money (1598) and John Marston's Jack Drum's...

After the Peasants’ War: Barbara (Schweikart) von Fuchstein Fights for Her Property

Contributor(s): Christopher Ocker

Historians are only beginning to appreciate fully the political and social impact of the aftermath of the German Peasants’ War. The case of Barbara (Schweikart) von Fuchstein, widow of Sebastian von Fuchstein, a Kaufbeuren lawyer suspected of Anabaptism and exiled at the end of the war, sheds...

Afterword

Contributor(s): E. Natalie Rothman

AHCT Board of Directors, project leads. Association for Hispanic Classical Theater, Inc. Other.

Contributor(s): Edward H. Friedman