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Utilité et diversité du «romanzo»: Giraldi Cinzio et le contexte français

Article | Contributor(s): Mawy Bouchard

Great epic theories of the Renaissance, mainly inspired by Aristotelian poetics, do not deal with the most widely spread narrative practice of the sixteenth century. The first theoretician of the novel (“romanzo”), Giraldi Cinzio, whose “pre-aristotelian” conception might seem a little backward,...

Utopia and the Enclosing of Dramatic Landscapes

Article | Contributor(s): Régis Augustus Bars Closel

This article focuses on the enclosing of the land as depicted in More’s Utopia (1516); the anonymous domestic tragedy, Arden of Faversham (1589); and the Carolinian play, A Jovial Crew (1641), by Richard Brome. It discusses how the relationship between the multiple resulting changes in...

Utopia’s Moorish Inspiration: Thomas More’s Reading of Ibn Ṭufayl

Article | Contributor(s): Daniel Regnier

A promising but neglected precedent for Thomas More’s Utopia is to be found in Ibn Ṭufayl’s Ibn Ḥayy Yaqẓān. This twelfth-century Andalusian philosophical novel describing the self-education and enlightenment of a feral child on an island, while certainly a precedent for the European...

Utz Richsner as Ideologue of the Schilling Uprising in Augsburg, 1524

Article | Contributor(s): Robert J. Bast

The 1524 uprising of evangelical artisans in Augsburg on behalf of the Franciscan preacher Johann Schilling counts as a turning point of the Reformation movement in that city. Relying on chronicles, government reports, and interrogation records, previous scholarship—none better than Jörg Rogge’s—...

Valentina Sturli. Estremi occidenti. Frontiere del contemporaneo in Walter Siti e Michel Houellebecq

Article | Contributor(s): Marco Malvestio

Valentine de Saint-Point, Ricciotto Canudo, F. T. Marinetti: Eroticism, Violence and Feminism from Prewar Paris to Colonial Cairo

Article | Contributor(s): Lucia Re

Valerio Magrelli's Clecsografie: klecks, image, projection

Article | Contributor(s): Pasquale Verdicchio

Valois, Marguerite de. Correspondance (1569–1614), éd. Éliane Viennot

Article | Contributor(s): Marie Barral-Baron

Variétés bibliographiques

Article | Contributor(s): Hélène Cazes

VaSto

Article | Contributor(s): Andrew Vidali

This is a review of the VaSto (VArchi, STOria fiorentina edizione digitale) project.

Velázquez’s Democritus: Global Disillusion and the Critical Hermeneutics of a Smile

Article | Contributor(s): Jimena Berzal de Dios

Velázquez’s Democritus (ca. 1630) presents a unique encounter: not only are there few depictions in which the Greek philosopher appears with a sphere that shows an actual map, but Velázquez used a court jester as a model for Democritus, thus placing the philosopher within a courtly space. When we...

Venerable Tradition or Reprehensible Luxury? A Scandal about Processional Display in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco

Article | Contributor(s): Gabriele Köster

A conflict within the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in 1540 concerning the display for the annual procession of Corpus Domini shows clearly that in those years of religious discussion and reformation many members of the scuole grandi were seized by the same wish for religious renewal as...

Veneti in Canada. A cura di Gianpaolo Romano. Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2011.

2023-05-25 19:35:27 | Article | Contributor(s): Lucilla Bonavita

Venice, the Hinge of Europe, 1081-1797

Article | Contributor(s): E. Lee

Ventra, Stefania. L’Accademia di San Luca nella Roma del secondo Seicento. Artisti, opere, strategie culturali.

Article | Contributor(s): Samantha J. C. Hughes-Johnson

Venturi, Francesco, ed. Self-Commentary in Early Modern European Literature, 1400–1700

Article | Contributor(s): William J. Kennedy

Verina R. Jones, ed. and trans. Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel. From Arcadia to Revolution: The Neapolitan Monitor and Other Writings

Article | Contributor(s): Antonio Mileo

Veronica Vegna. Donne, mafia e cinema. Una prospettiva interdisciplinare

Article | Contributor(s): Wanda Balzano