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Revealing the importance of Jewish preachers in the ghettos of 16th-century Italy, this title demonstrates how these men served as a bridge between the ghetto and the Christian world outside, between old and new conventions, and between elite and popular modes of thought.
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An exploration of time and space, rumors and silence, colors, tastes, and ideas that recreates the richness of Jewish life in Renaissance Italy. It points out that Jews... Læs mere
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Claudio Monteverdi was the first important composer of opera. This work examines the composer's celebrated final works - "Il ritorno d'Ulisse" and... Læs mere
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Drawing upon a complex web of early modern sources and ancient texts, this study is a treatment of women, gender and sexuality in 17th-century opera. It explores the operatic manifestations of female chastity, power, transvestism, androgyny and desire.
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Makes use of archival sources to reexamine the Roman Catholic Church's policy, from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, of... Læs mere
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Chronicles the lives of a group of fishermen from Ghana who took the long and dangerous journey to Southern Italy... Læs mere
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Columbus is the first star in a constellation of European adventurers whose right to claim and conquer each land mass... Læs mere
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On May 20, 1347, Cola di Rienzo overthrew without violence the turbulent rule of Rome's noble families and the pope. This is a biography of the firebrand whose exploits have enlivened the work of poets, composers and dramatists, as well as historians.
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Contradicting the traditional views that Benito Perez Galdos, one of Spain's greatest modern novelists, was a champion of the emancipated new woman, this study argues that his views actually reinforced the conservative model of frugal, virtuous womanhood - the angel of the house.
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Reconstructs the Barcelona disputation from the Christian and Jewish sources and sets it in its historical context, emphasizing... Læs mere