Tales Of Firenzuola, Benedictine Monk Of Vallombrosa, Sixteenth Century (1889)

Religion & Spirituality

Firenzuola, Agnolo

Christian Books & Bibles

Kessinger Publishing

First published in 1548, On the Beauty of Women purports to record two conversations shared by a young gentleman, Celso, and four ladies of the upper bourgeoisie in the vicinity of Florence. One afternoon Celso and the ladies consider universal beauty. On a subsequent evening, they attempt to fashion a composite picture of perfect beauty by combining the beautiful features of women they know. The standards of beauty established in the garden give way to the artistic, creative imagination of the human spirit, and the group's movement from garden to hall seems to echo the dialogue's movement from Nature to Art, from divinely to humanly created beauty.
Konrad Eisenbichler and Jacqueline Murray have provided the first translation into English of Firenzuola's dialogue since the nineteenth century. In their introduction, they argue that Firenzuola's work presents a useful point of entry into the society and values of the mid-sixteenth century. In its discussion of beauty, the dialogue reveals the intersection of Neoplantonic philosophy and mathematically based artistic theory, both inherited from classical antiquity. Indeed, Firenzuola's treatise has been assessed as one of the most significant expositions of Renaissance aesthetics.

On the Beauty of Women

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

University of Pennsylvania Press

Firenzuola, Agnolo, Eisenbichler, Konrad, Murray, Jacquel

The Tales of Firenzuola present in English translation the ten extant stories of this collection, which are delightful, humorous and realistic pictures of secular, urban life in Tuscany during the Renaissance. The Tales are probably the most popular of Agnolo Firenzuola's prose works. On one side they continued in the popular story-telling tradition of Boccaccio and on the other side the Tales contain the seeds of the developing Italian novel of the sixteenth century. They reflect the worldly realism of the town rather than the elevated idealism of the court. Full of sex, money, revenge and anti-clericalism, they draw a humorous, entertaining, bawdy and realistic picture of Florence and neighboring Tuscany in the early sixteenth century. With witty style and fast-paced narration the Tales are a bridge in literary history from the medieval tales to the picaresque novel. Translated from Italian.

Tales of Firenzuola

Literary

Italica Press, Inc.

Delle Opere di m. Agnolo Firenzuola Fiorentno

Apuleius

Fantini, Pier Luigi

History

BiblioLife

Delle Opere Di M. Agnolo Firenzuola Fiorentno

Tales of Firenzuola, Benedictine Monk of Vallombrosa

Apulejo, Dell' Asino D'Oro (1781) (Italian Edition)

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

Opere Di Messer Agnolo Firenzuola ... (English and Italian Edition)

Manni, Domenico Maria

Nabu Press

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