The Sounds of Milan, 1585-1650 by Robert L. Kendrick

The Sounds of Milan, 1585-1650

During this e-book, a follow-up to his 1996 monograph Celestial Sirens, Robert Kendrick examines the cultural contexts of tune in early-modern Milan. This booklet describes the church buildings and palaces that served as functionality areas in Milan, analyzes the ability buildings within the urban, discusses the devotional rites of the Milanese, and explores the connections between urban politics, city-scape, and track.

Androids and Intelligent Networks in Early Modern Literature and Culture: Artificial Slaves (Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)

This booklet explores the production and use of artificially made humanoid servants and servant networks through fictional and non-fictional scientists of the early smooth interval. starting with an research of the roots of synthetic servants, humanoids, and automata from previous instances, LaGrandeur lines how those literary representations coincide with a surging curiosity in automata and experimentation, and the way they mix with the paranormal technology that preceded the empirical period.

Canines in Cervantes and Velázquez: An Animal Studies Reading of Early Modern Spain (New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies)

The examine of the production of dogs breeds in early sleek Europe, particularly Spain, illustrates different constructs opposed to which notions of human id have been cast. This publication is the 1st complete background of early sleek Spanish canines and it evaluates how of Spain’s such a lot celebrated and canonical cultural figures of this era, the artist Diego Velázquez and the writer Miguel de Cervantes, notably query humankind’s sixteenth-century anthropocentric self-fashioning.

Milton’s Italy: Anglo-Italian Literature, Travel, and Connections in Seventeenth-Century England (Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)

This e-book joins a turning out to be pattern towards transnational literary reports and revives a venerable culture of Anglo-Italian scholarship centering on John Milton. Correcting misperceptions that experience decreased the overseas dimensions of his existence and paintings, it commonly surveys Milton’s Italianate stories, travels, poetics, politics, and non secular convictions.