Title & Author:

Italy in the Baroque : selected readings / edited and translated by Brendan Dooley.

Publication:

New York : Garland Pub., 1995.

Description:

ix, 689 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:
Selected Italian texts written between 1583 and 1704 translated into English by Brendan Dooley.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 629-678) and index.
1. Free Inquiry and the Accademia dei Lincei (1616) / Federico Cesi -- 2. On the Sense of Things (1604) / Tommaso Campanella -- 3. Thoughts (1583-91) / Paolo Sarpi -- 4. The Assayer (1623) / Galileo Galilei -- 5. Letter to Galileo (1625) / Mario Guiducci -- 6. Physical and Astronomical Observations (1660-7) / The Accademia del Cimento -- 7. Physico-Mathematical Thoughts (1667) / Geminiano Montanari -- 8. Experiments on the Generation of Insects (1668) / Francesco Redi -- 9. Opinion on the Origin and Progress of Medicine (1681) / Leonardo Di Capua -- 10. History of the Interdict (1624) / Paolo Sarpi -- 11. Memoirs of the Plague in Florence (1613-48) / Giovanni Baldinucci -- 12. The War of Mantua and Montferrat (1638) / Pier Giovanni Capriata -- 13. The Neapolitan Revolution (1647) / Alessandro Giraffi -- 14. Life of Caravaggio (1672) / Giovanni Pietro Bellori -- 15. Life of Bernini (1682) / Filippo Baldinucci -- 16. Reports from Parnassus (1605-13) / Traiano Boccalini.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0815312180
9780815312185

Subject:

Civilization, Baroque Italy Sources.
Civilisation baroque Italie Sources.
Civilization.
Civilization, Baroque.
Cultuur.
Politieke situatie.
Art baroque Italie.
Italy Civilization 1559-1789 Sources.
Italy Civilization 1559-1789 Translations into English.
Italie Civilisation 1559-1789 Sources.
Italy.
Italie Civilisation 1559-1789.
Italy History, 1494-1796

Form/genre:

Sources.

Added entries:

Dooley, Brendan Maurice, 1953-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 107042
Call No.: DG447.I86 (ID:94-B267)
Status: Available