Juliana Schiesari. Beasts and Beauties: Animals, Gender, and Domestication in the Italian Renaissance. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. xii + 158 pp. index. illus. bibl. $45. ISBN: 978–0–8020–9922–8.

2010 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 1285-1287
Author(s):  
Nathalie Hester
Keyword(s):  
Italian Renaissance ◽  
University Of Toronto

Italian Renaissance Plays in the University of Toronto Library: Supplement III

1974 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 512-532
Author(s):  
Beatrice Corrigan
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Italian Renaissance ◽  
Valuable Source ◽  
Passion Plays ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
The Third ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The University

The Editorial Board of Renaissance Quarterly is most kindly continuing its tradition in Renaissance News by allowing me to publish the third supplement to the Catalogue of Italian Plays 1500-1700 in theUniversity of Toronto Library (University of Toronto Press, 1961). Previous supplements appeared in RN16 (1963), 298-307, and 19 (1966), 219-228. The plays listed below illustrate a wide range of theatrical tastes, from Latin and Italian passion plays, medieval in tradition, to the later dominant vogue for musical dramas. In editions of the latter it became customary early in the seventeenth century to record architects, costumers, and performers, so that the printed plays are a valuable source for stage history. Scenery for four of these dramas was designed by Ferdinando and Francesco Galli di Bibbiena, then at the outset of their careers.

Jacob Burckhardt's Social and Political Thought

2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 220-221
Author(s):  
John R. Hinde
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Italian Renaissance ◽  
University Of Toronto

Jacob Burckhardt's Social and Political Thought, Richard Sigurdson, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004, xii, pp. 279.Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897) has long been recognized as one of the most important historians of the nineteenth century. His principal works, The Age of Constantine the Great (1852) and The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860), and his posthumous Greek Cultural History (1902) and Reflections on History (1905), remain in print and continue to be read and studied with profit today. Indeed, the questions raised in his study of the Italian Renaissance still define how historians interpret this field of history.

Italian Renaissance Plays in the University of Toronto Library

1966 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-228
Author(s):  
Beatrice Corrigan
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Italian Renaissance ◽  
Commedia Dell'arte ◽  
Italian Translation ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Dramatic Form ◽  
The University

Since 1963, when I published in Renaissance News (XVI,4, 298-307) a supplement to my Catalogue of Italian Plays, 1500-1700 in the University of Toronto Library (University of Toronto Press, 1961), the collection has been enriched by some fifty plays. Particularly interesting are the first Italian translation of Aristophanes; a group of the musical plays whose vogue grew steadily during the seventeenth century; and a couple of examples, Italian and Latin, of the other new musico-dramatic form of the period, the oratorio. Noteworthy also is Benetti's Scherno di Giove, a curious blending of mythology and commedia dell'arte which survived in the ‘classical’ burlesques of the Victorian theatre.

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