The Processional Sculpture of Penitential Confraternities in Early Modern Seville
2023-06-02 19:27:41 | Contributor(s): Susan Verdi Webster
The Programming Historian
Contributor(s): Rachel White
This is a review of the Programming Historian.
The public plate in the transnational city: Tensions among food procurement, global trade and local legislation
2025-03-19 22:03:33 | Contributor(s): Jennifer Sumner, Hayley Lapalme | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i1.268
Local food systems are crucial to sustainability, and one of the most effective ways to develop them is to harness the buying power of large public institutions, such as hospitals and universities. Steering public funds toward local food systems, however, is not as easy as it might...
The Public Sermon: Paul's Cross and the culture of persuasion in England, 1534-1570
Contributor(s): W. J. Torrance Kirby
La tribune en plein air située dans l’enceinte de la cathédrale St-Paul de Londres, et connue sous le nom de la «croix de Paul», compte parmi les plus importants lieux publics de l'Angleterre de la Renaissance. Dans une société où le sermon était le vecteur principal d'éducation des adultes, de...
The Publisher Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, Female Readers, and the Debate about Women in Sixteenth-Century Italy
Contributor(s): Androniki Dialeti
Cet article examine les stratégies de publication que l'éditeur vénitien du XVIe siècle, Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari et ses collaborateurs, ont appliquées dans le but d'attirer le lectorat féminin pour des ouvrages impliqués dans la controverse dite «querelle des femmes», des ouvrages de Giovanni...
The Question of Esoteric Writing in Machiavelli’s Works
Contributor(s): Rasoul Namazi
The question addressed by this article is whether esotericism or secret teachings exist in Machiavelli’s writings. This question has been a major point of contention between the commentators of Machiavelli, with many denying the existence of esoteric teaching in the Machiavellian corpus. This...
The Quill Pen in a Funeral Oration: Clément Marot Appropriates the Ancient Genre
Contributor(s): Irina Dzero
Cet article examine comment Clément Marot s’approprie le genre du discours funèbre. L’auteur y montre que sa Deploration de Florimond Robertet et son Eglogue sur Louise de Savoie n’obéissent pas aux modèles classiques et chrétiens du discours funèbre. Le poète crée plutôt une combinaison...
The Raison d'architecture and Architectural Theory in Early Sixteenth-Century France
Contributor(s): Sandra Richards
Cet article analyse le premier traité d’architecture écrit en français, La Raison d’architecture antique, extraicte de Vitruve (Paris, 1537), un opuscule sur la question des ordres classiques. Malgré son immense popularité au milieu du XVIe siècle, on lui a consacré peu d’études, sans doute en...
The Reader Defied: Text as Adversary in Calvino's Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore
Contributor(s): Mary Jo Muratore
The Reception & Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550–1700
2023-05-11 21:23:08 | Contributor(s): Marie-France Guénette
This is a review of The Reception & Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550–1700.
The Reception of Correggio’s Two Altarpieces for Modena in Their Confraternity Settings
Contributor(s): Alyssa A. Abraham
The Reception of Erasmus’ Adages in Sixteenth-Century England
Contributor(s): Erika Rummel
The Adages of Erasmus, a collection of more than 4,000 classical proverbs, was a bestseller in its time. The book was valued both for its usefulness in Latin composition and its witty asides on contemporary society. The dissemination of the Adages in England is of special significance because the...
The Reception of Fernando de Roja’s Celestina in Italy: A Polyphonic Discourse
Contributor(s): Enrica Maria Ferrara
La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas was published in Spain for the first time in 1499 as a comedy, and as a tragicomedy in 1502. The first Italian translation of the play was published in Rome in 1506 and gave birth to a parallel and complementary textual tradition on which the reception and...
The Recipes Project—Food, Magic, Art, Science, and Medicine
2023-05-11 22:02:10 | Contributor(s): Jessica Marie Otis
This is a review of The Recipes Project—Food, Magic, Art, Science, and Medicine.
The Recusant Print Network Project (Beta)
2023-05-11 22:12:34 | Contributor(s): Eilish Gregory
This is a review of The Recusant Print Network Project (Beta).
The Reformation of Death in Italy and England, circa 1550
Contributor(s): M. A. Overell
La présente étude comparative traite des pratiques et des attentes des premiers Protestants à l'égard du lit de mort. L'histoire populaire italienne de la mort de Francesco Spiera en 1548, qui servait de propagande, est comparée avec des textes contemporains de la réforme anglaise. Les prières...
The Relationship between Fraternities and the Government in Spain during the XVIIIth Century. A Research Project
Contributor(s): Inmaculada Arias de Saavedra, Miguel Luis López Muñoz
The Relief Scandal In Montreal's Italian Community and Its Political Background: Fascio, Consulate and the Roman Catholic Parish of the Church of the Madonna della Difesa, October 1932-July 1933
Contributor(s): Angelo Principe
The following essay is divided into three inter-woven parts. The first deals with the ravage of the Great Depression in Canada; the second explores the Canadian clerical and secular establishment's view of fascism and its local Italian proponents; the last part unravels the cozy collaboration in...
The Religious Poetry of Michelangelo: The Mystical Sublimation
Contributor(s): Konrad Eisenbichler
The Renaissance in Toronto: Early Modern Italian Books in the Collections of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
Contributor(s): Antonio Ricci
The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto has significant holdings of books printed in Italy during the Renaissance. These volumes cover a wide variety of disciplines and represent a major resource for scholars of literature, philosophy, science, and print culture. The...
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