<p>This volume contains translations, into contemporary English, of novellas by Salernitano, Da Porto, Bandello, and Boaistuau that were forerunners to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. These translations are preceded by an introduction that traces the evolution of the tale of the two Veronese lovers.Tommaso Guardati (circa 1410-1475), more commonly known as Masuccio Salernitano, wrote the Novellino, a collection of fifty short stories, under the patronage of Roberto Sanseverino, prince of Salerno, which was published posthumously in 1476. Luigi Da Porto (1485-1529), a soldier in the Venetian army and friend of the literary theorist and poet Pietro Bembo, is the author of letters valuable as historical documents, of poems, and of one novella. Matteo Bandello (1485-1561), born in Castelnuovo in Lombardy, abandoned the Dominican order in favour of court life that enabled him to write encomiastic poetry, Petrarchan verse, and his major literary work: a collection of 214 novellas from which Shakespeare derived Twelfth Night, Much Ado about Nothing, and Romeo and Juliet. Pierre Boaistuau (circa 1517-1566), born into the middle class of Nantes, is perhaps best known as the publisher of the first edition of the Heptaméron of Marguerite de Navarre as well as being the adapter, into French, of six Bandello novellas, published under the title Histoires tragiques.</p>

Romeo and Juliet before Shakespeare: Four Early Stories of Star-Crossed Love (Renaissance and Reformation Texts in Translation, No. 8)

History

Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.)

Bandello, Matteo

Prunster, Nicole

Boaistuau

Europe

Centre for Reformation & Renaissance Studies

The Premodern Teenager: Youth in Society, 1150-1650

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

<p>This book carefully dissects and contextualizes a vast (6.12 metre x 2.58 metre) seventeenth-century panorama of Constantinople that is not only an exceptional representation of the city, but also an elaborate piece of anti-Ottoman propaganda designed by the Franciscan friar Niccolò Guidalotto da Mondavio. It depicts Constantinople as seen from across the Golden Horn in Galata, throwing new light on both the city and the relationships between the rival Venetian Republic and the Ottoman Empire. It trumpets the unalloyed Christian zeal of Fra Guidalotto and serves as a fascinating example of visual crusade propaganda against the Ottomans. As such, the panorama is a source of cultural clash, a confrontation point between Venice and the Ottoman Empire.</p>

Crusade Propaganda in Word and Image in Early Modern Italy: Niccolò Guidalottos' Panorama of Constantinople

Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby

This volume celebrates the considerable contributions of Edward Muir to the history of Renaissance Italy and early modern Europe. In keeping with Muir's signature interdisciplinary approach to history, the fifteen essays in this volume include contributions on the ritual dimensions of early modern politics, religion, literature, and art and range from the Venetian and Florentine capitals of Renaissance high culture to Germany, Spain, the Low Countries, and China. Janus-faced, like all good historians, the volume looks forward and back, combining distinguished senior scholars and new voices with venerable debates and new fields. In doing so, the collection testifies to the vibrancy, vitality, and significance of early modern studies today and the degree to which Muir's scholarship over the past thirty years has powerfully fueled the field's dynamism.

Rituals of Politics and Culture in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honour of Edward Muir

CRRS

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