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Contributor(s): Maria Lisella

In her essay “Shades, Color and Internal Dialogues in White America,” from which the present contribution is taken, Maria Lisella takes a savvy streetwise approach to balancing feminism with political consciousness. By sifting through the nuances and politics of her own body language in what...

Bloch, Amy R., Carolyn James, and Camilla Russell, eds. The Art and Language of Power in Renaissance Florence: Essays for Alison Brown

Contributor(s): Paula C. Clarke

Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Self-Chastisement in Donne's "If poysonous mineralls"

Contributor(s): Kenneth Chong

Les principales interprétations du poème de Donne — “If poysonous mineralls” — sont divisées sur la question de savoir si le propos de ce poème est spécieux ou non. Mon avis est qu’il est effectivement spécieux, mais seulement dans la perspective où l’auteur se repent et se châtie. La stratégie...

Boccaccio tra Dante e Cino

Contributor(s): Pier Massimo Forni

Boccaccio, Baptismal Kinship, and Spiritual Incest

Contributor(s): Louis Haas

Bodily Boundaries Represented: the Petrarchan, the Burlesque and Arcimboldo's Example

Contributor(s): Maria Galli Stampino

Bodily Passions: Physiognomy and Drama in Giovan Battista Della Porta

Contributor(s): Eugenio Refini

This article explores the intersections of physiognomic knowledge and drama in the works of Neapolitan naturalist and playwright Giovan Battista Della Porta (1535–1616). It first looks at references to theatre—classical drama in particular—in Della Porta’s writings on physiognomy, thus showing...

Body Language During Classes of Italian as L2: The Voice of the Students in Canada and in Italy

Contributor(s): Giuliana Salvato

Bohn, Babette. Women Artists, Their Patrons, and Their Publics in Early Modern Bologna.

Contributor(s): Jacqueline Marie Musacchio

Bolognese ‘Orations’ between Song and Silence: The Laude of the Confraternity of Santa Maria della Morte

Contributor(s): Gioia Filocamo

The flagellant confraternity of “Santa Maria della Morte” (Saint Mary of Death) in Bologna, established in 1336, was the first institution to systematically take care of the spiritual needs of those sentenced to death. This charitable activity, highly professionalized, followed a set of...

Bolzoni, Lina et Alina Payne, éds. The Italian Renaissance in the 19th Century. Revision, Revival, and Return

Contributor(s): Patrick Thériault

Bomarzo: il santuario neoplatonico

Contributor(s): Elémire Zolla

Bonavita, Lucilla. Valentino Zeichen: un uomo, un poeta. Voci polifoniche nell’opera del poeta ‘ribelle’. Avellino: Edizioni Sinestesie, 2018.

Contributor(s): Carmine Chiodo

Books and Book-Form in Milton

Contributor(s): John K. Hale

Comment Milton voyait-il les livres, dans le sens littéral ainsi que métaphorique de «voir»? Pour lui, comme pour Goethe, les livres impliquaient plusieurs aspects de la vie; ainsi il se sert de lieux communs traditionnels mais aussi de subtilités bibliographiques, ceux-là pour s'exprimer,...

Books of 'Materia Medica' in Toronto Libraries: Herbals, Books of Simples and Compounds, Formularies, Pharmacopoeias, Etc. 300 B.C. to 1800 A. D.

2023-06-20 18:06:36 | Contributor(s): Roberta Styran, Andrew Watson

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