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Italian Gems

 
 

Suggested reading and resources

The names of authors who are speakers at
Italian Gems are indicated in bold type.


Ariosto, M. Ludovico, Orlando Furioso.

Castiglione, Baldesare, The Courtier,  trans. By L. E. Opkycke (Dover, NY 2003).

Dosso’s Fate  Getty Museum Exhibition catalog. 1999.

Findlen, Paula, Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy (Berkeley: UC Press, 1994); The Daughters of Galileo: Knowledge and Desire at the End of the Scientific Revolution (Berkeley, UC Press, 1998); and Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science and Art in Early Modern Europe (New York: Routledge, 2001).

Harrison, Robert, The Body of Beatrice (Johns Hopkins University Press,1988).

Martines, Lauro,  Power and Imagination: City-States in Renaissance Italy. (Alfred A. Knopf, 1979) 236.

Humfrey, Peter et al.,  Dosso Dossi Court Painter in Renaissance Ferrara (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY).

Shemek, Deanna,  Ladies Errant: Wayward Women and Social Order in Early Modern Italy
(Duke University Press, 1998) Italian trans. forthcoming from Edizioni Tre Lune
“Of Women, Knights, Arms, and Love: The Orlando Furioso and Ariosto’s Querelle des Femmes.”  MLN 104.1 (1989): 68-97.

Simon, Kate,  A Renaissance Tapestry: The Gonzaga of Mantua, (Harper & Row, NY, 1988).

Starn, Randoph,  Arts of Power: Three Halls of State in Italy 1300- 1600 (with Loren Partridge). (Berkeley: UC Press, 1992).

Newcomb, Anthony,  The Madrigal in Ferrara 1579-97; Complete Works of Luzzasco
Luzzaschi
(editor).

Partridge, Loren Art of Renaissance Rome: 1400-1600 (Penguin USA, 1996); Michelangelo the Last Judgment: A Glorious Restoration (Abradale/Abrams, 2000).

Rabb, Theodore K.,  Origins of the Modern West : Essays and Sources in Renaissance & Early Modern European History (Princeton University Press, 1993); Renaissance Lives (Basic Books, 2000).

Schiff, Bennett, “Dosso Dossi: A Renaissance Artist Comes to Light”, Smithsonian, January, 1999.

Vasari,  Lives of the Artists 1550—many editions.

Woods-Marsden, Joanna, Renaissance Self Portraiture: The Visual Construction of Identity and the Social Status of the Artist. (Yale University Press, 1998).




 
     
 
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