The Inaudible Music of the Renaissance: From Marsilio Ficino to Robert Fludd

Contributor(s): Roseen H. Giles

This article revaluates the significance of musical treatises written by the Ficinian physician Robert Fludd (1574–1637). By reconsidering the implications of Fludd’s interpretation of Marsilio Ficino’s musical philosophy, I propose that his “reconstruction” of the Renaissance outlook in the...

The Infernal Present: Auden's Use of Inferno III in "The Chimeras"

Contributor(s): James F. G. Weldon

The Influence of Milan on the Development of the Lombard Koiné in Fifteenth-Century Italy: the Letters of Elisabetta of Pavia

Contributor(s): Josh Brown

The main tendency characterizing the development of language in Lombardy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries is the formation of a koiné. The extent to which Milan influenced the Lombard koiné is the subject of ongoing debate. On the one hand, scholars suggest that Milan provided a...

The Influence of Theatre in Rosso's Deposition

Contributor(s): Marie Paulette Kaskinen

The Italian-Canadian Internment: The Case of the Mascioli Brothers of Timmins, Ontario

Contributor(s): Jessica Leonora Whitehead

The Janus-Face of Early Modern Literary Studies: Negotiating the Boundaries of Interactivity in an Electronic Journal for the Humanities

2022-06-13 19:42:35 | Contributor(s): Paul Dyck, Ray Siemens, Jennifer Lewin, Joanne Woolway Grenfell | https://doi.org/10.25547/PDHM-SN61

Literary Studies

The Jellinek Collection at the Alcoholic Research Foundations

2023-04-20 19:44:54 | Contributor(s): Natalie Zemon Davis

The Jesuit-Guaraní Confraternity in the Spanish Missions of South America (1609–1767): A Global Religious Organization for the Colonial Integration of Amerindians

Contributor(s): Kazuhisa Takeda

This article explores the vertical aspects of the Jesuit confraternity system in the thirty community towns under Span­ish rule (1609−1767) designated as “Missions” or “Reductions” in the Río de la Plata region of South America. The principal docu­ments analyzed are the cartas anuas, the annual...

The Lady of Sorrows: Music, Devotion, and Politics in the Burgundian Netherlands

Contributor(s): Peter Jeffery

The Law of Criminal Procedure in The Contention between Liberality and Prodigality

2023-06-27 18:09:26 | Contributor(s): William Dean

The Letters of Bernardino Pino da Cagli: Christian Humanism in the Late Renaissance

2023-06-20 17:59:06 | Contributor(s): Walter J. Temelini

The London Stage Database

Contributor(s): Renae Satterley

This is a review of The London Stage Database.

The Lost Plays Database

2023-05-11 18:52:23 | Contributor(s): Paul Brown

This is a review of the Lost Plays Database. 

The Lost World of Italian American Radicalism. An Assessment

Contributor(s): Angelo Principe

The Lover’s Body: The Somatogenesis of Love in Renaissance Medical Treatises

Contributor(s): Donald Beecher

The Many Facets of Domestic Life in Licia Cantons Almond Wine and Fertility

Contributor(s): Giulia De Gasperi

The Meaning of «ἑνὶ ὀνόματι» in the Sectio canonis

2023-09-06 23:10:18 | Contributor(s): Fabio Acerbi | https://doi.org/10.25547/TQ0P-NH29

interpretations of the expression

The Meaning of «ἑνὶ ὀνόματι» in the Sectio canonis

2023-05-18 22:28:06 | Contributor(s): Fabio Acerbi

A new interpretation is proposed of the crucial expression «ἑνὶ ὀνόματι» (“in one name”) as applied to ratios of the musical concords in the preface of the Sectio canonis ascribed to Euclid. A link is also established with the name of one of the irrational lines introduced by Euclid in Elements...

The Medici Archive Project

Contributor(s): Colin Rose

This is a review of The Medici Archive Project.

The Merchant and the Sacred: Artifice and Realism in Decameron I.1

Contributor(s): Susanna Barsella

By investigating the first novella of the Decameron from the perspective of the sacred this article questions the notion of realism as privileged key to the interpretation of Boccaccio’s style, poetics, and even philosophy in his major work. Although with different nuances of definition, realism...