Sperone Speroni was among the leading literary figures in Renaissance Italy, renowned as a theorist, essayist and author of dialogues (on love, discord, the dignity of women, and language), some of which led to problems with the Inquisition. His drama Canace (1542) gave rise to a polemic that resonated beyond his native country due to its controversial topic: incest. The ill-fated lovers (and siblings) Canace and Macareus are discovered by their father, Aeolus, king of the winds, who wreaks terrible vengeance on them-not realizing that Venus is the instigator of their love for each other. With a plot derived from Ovid and dramatic elements taken from Seneca, the tragedy of Canace raises questions about the problem of incest and its role in the debate regarding nature versus culture, a controversial topic that is still current. Elio Brancaforte is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, Tulane University. A comparatist, his interests include translation, cultural exchange, early modern travel literature and drama, and the history of cartography. Currently he is working on a project that examines how Safavid Iran was represented in word and image in six different European travel accounts.

Canace

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Speroni, Sperone

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Carleton Renaissance plays in Translation Series, with translation, Introduction, and Notes by Donald Beecher and Massimo Ciavolella. Second Edition.

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Lorca: Tragedia Y Mito (Ottawa Hispanic Studies)

Feal, Carlos

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De Vega, Lope

TESTAFERRI, A., ED.: DONNA. WOMEN IN ITALIAN CULTURE . OTTAWA, ONTARIO, 1989, 316 p. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

Donna Women in Italian Culture (University of Toronto Italian Studies 7) (English and Italian Edition)

History & Criticism

Comparative Critical Approaches to Renaissance Comedy (Carleton Renaissance Plays in Translation)

Beecher, Donald

Nicolas of Cusa (1401-1464) was a theologian, philosopher, Canon lawyer, and Church reformer. Born in Kues, Germany, and educated in Italy and Germany, Cusanus stands on the border between medieval scholasticism and Renaissance philosophy. Although he is deeply influenced by medieval writers including Albert the Great, Ramon Lull, and Meister Eckhart, he eschews the scholastic method of composition, often preferring the dialogue form favored by the humanists. Cusanus dedicates his philosophical writings to the exploration of the limits of the mind in its pursuit of absolute truth. The lack of proportion between the limits of human reason and the infinity of absolute truth means that man can only have an approximate knowledge of God and the eternal truths that exist in the divine mind. Recognizing the limits of reason stimulated Cusanus to develop a new philosophical analysis of mind that depends heavily in grasping the superior power of the human intellect over that of reason. The intuitive power of the intellect allows man to step over the limits of calculative reason and by employing a method Cusanus called "learning ignorance" to develop a new logic of infinity. This new way of thinking, often expressed in mathematical symbols and analogies, is designed to develop human insight into the infinity of God.

The Layman on Wisdom and the Mind (Renaissance Reformation Texts in Translation)

History

Nicholas of Cusa

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The Marescalco (Carleton Renaissance Plays in Translation)

ARETINO, PIETRO

HALKHOREE, P. R. K.: SOCIAL AND LITERARY SATIRE IN THE COMEDIES OF TIRSO DE MOLINA. OTTAWA, ONTARIO, 1989, 293 p. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

Social and Literary Satire in the Comedies of Tirso De Molina (Ottawa Hispanic Studies)

Halkhoree, P. R. K.

Ruano De LA Haza, Jose M.

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Courtesy books have a special relationship to the age that produces them. By attempting to codify manners, styles, ideals and values of a society, they reveal the principles and presuppositions that shape and animate their world. Galateo does this brilliantly. It reflects the personal experience, wisdom, disappointments, and ambitions of its clerical but worldly-wise author as well as the fundamental values of his age. And, given that his age was that of the transformation from the High Renaissance in Italy to the world of the Counter-Reformation, and that Della Casa was an important actor in the events of his time, the lessons are particularly valuable and worth considering. Archbishop Giovanni Della Casa (1503-1556) was an influential Vatican diplomat, papal nuncio to Venice, and instrumental in the establishment of the Venetian Inquisition and in its 1549 Index of Prohibited Books. He was also an accomplished poet, an arbiter of taste, and the most influential writer on social practice of his time. His book, Galateo, has in fact provided the modern Italian term for good manners: ânot to know the galateoâ is to have no manners at all!

Galateo: A Renaissance Treatise on Manners (Renaissance and Reformation Texts in Translation, 3)

Giovanni, Della Casa

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