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Poetic Works of Helius Eobanus Hessus
Volume 3: King of Poets, 1514-1517
Inbunden, 2012
3657 kr
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Hailed as “King of Poets” by Johann Reuchlin in 1514, Eobanus Hessus (1488–1540) was eager to build on his fame with a stream of new works: “Easter Hymn,” “On True Nobility,” “On the Avoidance of Drunkenness,” “Response from His Majesty Maximilian” (answering Hutten’s “Letter from Italia”), and the …
Companion to Early Modern Hispanic Theater
Inbunden, 2014
3385 kr
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A panoramic, state-of-the-art handbook destined to chart a course for future work in the field of early modern Hispanic theater studies. It begins in the closet with an essay on Celestina as closet drama and moves out into the court to explore intersections with courtly love. An essay on the …
Companion to Vittoria Colonna
Av Abigail Brundin, Tatiana Crivelli m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
4699 kr
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Vittoria Colonna (1490-1547) was the genre-defining secular woman writer of Renaissance Italy, whose literary model helped to establish a decorous and wholly assimilated voice for women within the field of Italian literature. The Companion to Vittoria Colonna brings together an international and …
Poetic Works of Helius Eobanus Hessus
Volume 4: Between Erasmus and Luther, 1518–1524
Inbunden, 2016
4807 kr
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In this volume, Eobanus Hessus turns from passionate Erasmian into staunch defender of Luther, only to find himself caught in the no-man’s-land between the two titans. Under Erasmus’ spell, he writes "Itinerary of My Journey to Erasmus," "On the Restoration of Studies at Erfurt," epigrams against …
Purple Island
Or: The Isle of Man
Av Phineas Fletcher, Johnathan H. Pope
Inbunden, 2017
2401 kr
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Phineas Fletcher’s epic allegorical poem The Purple Island (1633) combines anatomical and devotional perspectives on the self as the poet explores the relationship between body and soul. The titular island is figured as both body and as England, thus merging religious, corporeal, devotional, and …
Companion to Cosimo I de’ Medici
Av Alessio Assonitis, Henk Th. van Veen
Inbunden, 2021
3559 kr
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Mining the rich documentary sources housed in Tuscan archives and taking advantage of the breadth and depth of scholarship produced in recent years, the seventeen essays in this Companion to Cosimo I de' Medici provide a fresh and systematic overview of the life and career of the first Grand Duke …
Companion to Celestina
Inbunden, 2017
2629 kr
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In A Companion to Celestina, Enrique Fernandez brings together twenty-three hitherto unpublished contributions on the Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea, popularly known as Celestina (c. 1499) written by leading experts who summarize, evaluate and expand on previous studies. The resulting chapters …
Companion to Erasmus
Inbunden, 2023
2413 kr
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The new Companion to Erasmus in the Renaissance Society of America’s Texts and Studies Series draws on the insights of an international team of distinguished experts whose contributions are arrayed in eleven chapters followed by a detailed chronological catalogue of Erasmus’ works and an up-to-date …
Companion to François Rabelais
Av Bernd Renner
Inbunden, 2021
3913 kr
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Winner of the 2022 SCSC Bainton Prize for Reference WorksA Companion to François Rabelais offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of the works of François Rabelais, one of the most influential writers of the Western literary tradition. A monk, medical doctor, translator and editor, …
Giovanni Aurelio Augurello (1441–1524) and Renaissance Alchemy
A Critical Edition of Chrysopoeia and Other Alchemical Poems, with an Introduction, English Translation and Commentary
Inbunden, 2019
2415 kr
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In Giovanni Aurelio Augurello (1441–1524) and Renaissance Alchemy, Matteo Soranzo offers the first in-depth study of the life and works of Augurello, Italian alchemist, poet and art connoisseur from the time of Giorgione. Analysed, annotated and translated into English for the first time, …
Companion to the Renaissance in Southern Italy (1350–1600)
Inbunden, 2023
3128 kr
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A Companion to the Renaissance in Southern Italy offers readers unfamiliar with Southern Italy an introduction to different aspects of the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century history and culture of this vast and significant area of Europe, situated at the center of the Mediterranean. Commonly regarded …
Uberto Decembrio, Four Books on the Commonwealth - De re publica libri IV
Inbunden, 2019
2022 kr
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Uberto Decembrio’s Four Books on the Commonwealth (De re publica libri IV, ca. 1420), edited and translated by Paolo Ponzù Donato, is one of the earliest examples of the reception of Plato’s Republic in the fifteenth century. The humanistic dialogue provides an illuminating insight into such themes …
Poetic Works of Helius Eobanus Hessus
Volume 5: A Veritable Proteus, 1524–1528
Inbunden, 2019
4285 kr
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As the University of Erfurt collapsed in the early 1520s, Hessus faced losing his livelihood. To cope, he imagined himself a shape-changing Proteus. Transforming first into a lawyer, then a physician, he finally became a teacher at the Nuremberg academy organized by Philip Melanchthon. Volume 5 …
Latin Poems of Manilius Cabacius Rallus of Sparta. On Longing, Fortune, and Displacement
A Critical Edition with Annotations and a Translation
Av Han Lamers, Han Lamers
Inbunden, 2023
2700 kr
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The Latin Poems of Manilius Cabacius Rallus of Sparta presents the poetic oeuvre of a forgotten poet of Renaissance Rome. A Greek by birth, Manilius Cabacius Rallus (c. 1447–c. 1523) spent most of his life far from his motherland, unable to return. Through his poems, composed in a range of metres …
Renaissance Papacy 1400–1600
Inbunden, 2025
2687 kr
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After having been weakened by the Great Western Schism, the papacy recovered its leadership position during the Renaissance. It expanded and reformed its bureaucracy, gained control over councils and cardinals, and established its authority over the Papal States and the city of Rome, which it …
Companion to the Spanish Renaissance
Häftad, 2021
1224 kr
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A Companion to the Spanish Renaissance makes a renewed case for the inclusion of Spain within broader European Renaissance movements. Its introduction, “A Renaissance for the ‘Spanish Renaissance’?” will be sure to incite polemic across a broad spectrum of academic fields. This interdisciplinary …
Poetic Works of Helius Eobanus Hessus
Volume 6: The Fruits of Autumn, 1528–1539
Inbunden, 2025
4363 kr
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This cornucopia of poetic fruits from Hessus’s autumn opens with "On the Tumults of These Times" (1528), meditating on the Peasant War and the Sack of Rome, and exhortations to Emperor Charles V to heal Germany’s traumas and defeat the Turks (1530). Next are the masterpieces, "Epicedia" (1531), …
Poetic Works of Helius Eobanus Hessus
Volume 7: Notes to Volume 6: The Fruits of Autumn
Inbunden, 2025
2863 kr
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Volume 7 is a companion to the preceding volume, The Fruits of Autumn. As such, it offers a rich trove of explanatory and philological notes on all the poetic texts presented there. Headnotes to individual sections provide information on meter and, as needed, on genre, tradition, historical and …
