The History of Siena, Ascheri

Автор: Reardon Colleen
Название: A Sociable Moment: Opera and Festive Culture in Baroque Siena
ISBN: 0190496304 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190496302
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: A Sociable Moment is the first book to examine the rise of opera in Siena during the Baroque. It focuses both on opera as a manifestation of civic self-fashioning and sociability, especially in pastoral works promoted by the expatriate Chigi family, and opera as business under the impresario Girolamo Gigli.

Автор: Mario Ascheri, Bradley Franco
Название: A History of Siena: From Its Origins to the Modern Day
ISBN: 0367253488 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367253486
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: A History of Siena provides a concise and up-to-date biography of the city, from its medieval development through to the present day, and makes Siena`s history, culture and traditions accessible to anyone studying or visiting the city.

Автор: Patrick Boucheron
Название: The Power of Images: Siena, 1338
ISBN: 150951290X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781509512904
Издательство: Wiley
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Where can the danger be lurking? Two soldiers are huddled together, one gazing up at the sky, the other darting a sideward glance. They derive a tacit reassurance from their weapons, but they are both in their different ways alone and scared. They were painted by Ambrogio Lorenzetti in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena, and they seem symptomatic of a state of emergency: the year was 1338, and the spectre of the signoria, of rule by one man, was abroad in the city, undermining the very idea of the common good.

In this book, distinguished historian Patrick Boucheron uncovers the rich social and political dimensions of the iconic 'Fresco of Good Government'. He guides the reader through Lorenzetti's divided city, where peaceful prosperity and leisure sit alongside the ever-present threats of violence, war and despotism. Lorenzetti's painting reminds us crucially that good government is not founded on the wisdom of principled or virtuous rulers. Rather, good government lies in the visible and tangible effects it has on the lives of its citizens. By subjecting it to scrutiny, we may, at least for a while, be able to hold at bay the dark seductions of tyranny.

From fourteenth-century Siena to the present, The Power of Images shows the latent dangers to democracy when our perceptions of the common good are distorted and undermined. It will appeal to students and scholars in art history, politics and the humanities, as well as to anyone interested in the nature of power.

Автор: Eisenbichler Konrad
Название: The Sword and the Pen: Women, Politics, and Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Siena
ISBN: 0268027765 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780268027766
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Описание: In "The Sword and the Pen: Women, Politics, and Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Siena," Konrad Eisenbichler analyzes the work of Sienese women poets, in particular, Aurelia Petrucci, Laudomia Forteguerri, and Virginia Salvi, during the first half of the sixteenth century up to the fall of Siena in 1555. Eisenbichler sets forth a complex and original interpretation of the experiences of these three educated noblewomen and their contributions to contemporary culture in Siena by looking at the emergence of a new lyric tradition and the sonnets they exchanged among themselves and with their male contemporaries. Through the analysis of their poems and various book dedications to them, Eisenbichler reveals the intersection of poetry, politics, and sexuality, as well as the gendered dialogue that characterized Siena`s literary environment during the late Renaissance. Eisenbichler also examines other little-known women poets and their relationship to the cultural environment of Siena, underlining the exceptional role of the city of Siena as the most important center of women`s writing in the first half of the sixteenth century in Italy, and probably in all of Europe. This innovative contribution to the field of late Renaissance and early modern Italian and women`s studies rescues from near oblivion a group of literate women who were celebrated by contemporary scholars but who have been largely ignored today, both because of a dearth of biographical information about them and because of a narrow evaluation of their poetry. Eisenbichler`s analysis and reproduction of many of their poems in Italian and modern English translation are an invaluable contribution not only to Italian cultural studies but also to women`s studies. "This is the first book to reconstruct an entire generation of women poets of Siena. It presents a timely and important contribution to the history of Italian literature and culture; among other merits it shows how women`s contribution to the literary environment of the time was not a separate enterprise. The goal of the book is not only to `recover` these protagonists of Italian literature but to show how they participated, actively and passively, in the culture of their time, and it is convincing in doing so." --Laura Giannetti, University of Miami