A companion to the Renaissance in southern Italy (1350-1600) /
"A Companion to the Renaissance in Southern Italy (1350-1600) introduces for the first time readers unfamiliar with Southern Italy to different aspects of the history and culture of this vast and significant area of Europe situated at the center of the Mediterranean during the fifteenth and six...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2023]
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| Series: | Renaissance Society of America texts and studies series ;
v. 19. |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- List of maps and figures
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction / Bianca de Divitiis
- The Aragonese Kingdom of Naples in its Mediterranean context / David Abulafia
- The Kingdom of Naples from Aragonese to Spanish rule / Pierluigi Terenzi
- Demography, economy, and trade / Eleni Sakellariou
- Religion: institutions, devotion, and heresy / Pasquale Palmieri
- Linguistic spaces: use and culture / Francesco Montuori
- Mapping the Kingdom: history and geography / Bianca de Divitiis and Fulvio Lenzo
- Cities, towns, and urban districts in southern Italy / Francesco Senator
- Urban spaces and society in southern Italy / Giuliana Vitale
- Factional conflict and political struggle in southern Italian cities and towns / Francesco Storti
- Jews, conversos, and Cristiani Novelli in the Kingdom of Naples / David Abulafia
- Territorial and urban infrastructures: ports, roads, and water supply / Fulvio Lenzo
- Architectural patronage and networks / Bianca de Divitiis
- Historiography from the Aragonese Kingdom to the Spanish Viceroyalty / Fulvio Delle Donne
- Political treatises / Guido Cappelli
- Writing about cities: local history, antiquarianism, and Classical sources / Lorenzo Miletti
- Written and oral culture: oral narratives, administrative texts, vernacular historiography in southern Italy / Chiara De Caprio
- Literacy and administration in the towns of southern Italy / Francesco Senatore
- Literature and theatre / Carlo Vecce
- Philosophy in the Kingdom of Naples: the long Renaissance from Giovanni Pontano to Giambattista Vico / Guido Giglioni
- The Academies from the death of Giovanni Gioviano Pontano to the end of the sixteenth century / Antonietta Iacono
- Libraries of humanists and of the elites in southern Italy / Giancarlo Abbamonte
- Manuscript illustration in the south of the Italian Peninsula / Teresa D'Urso
- Paintings, frescoes, and cycles / Andrea Zezza
- Music and music patronage at the courts of the Kingdom / Dinko Fabris
- Kings and viceroys
- Maps
- Figures
- Glossary
- Index.