Italian renaissance festivals and their European influence /

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Imprint:Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, c1992.
Description:xiii, 346 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1356648
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Other authors / contributors:Mulryne, J. R.
Shewring, Margaret
ISBN:0773496084
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • A. Festivals: Theory and Practice. 1. Theatre Performances at Italian Renaissance Festivals: Multi-Media Spectacles or Gesamtkunstwerke? / Gunter Berghaus. 2. Staging an Intermedio: Practical Advice from Florence circa 1630 / Roger Savage
  • B. Festivals in Italy. 3. Cavallerie a Ferrara 1561-1570 / Alessandro Marcigliano. 4. Feste Veneziane Cinquecentesche / Lina Urban. 5. Theatre as Festival: The Staging of Aretino's Talanta (1542) and the Influence of Vasari / Christopher Cairns. 6. Entertainments for the Marriages of the Princesses of Savoy in 1608 / Jessica Gordon
  • C. Festivals in German-Speaking Lands and the Italian Influence. 7. The Diaries of Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria: Commedia dell'Arte at the Wedding Festivals of Florence (1565) and Munich (1568) / M.A. Katritzky. 8. Marriage Entertainments in the Palatinate for Princess Elizabeth Stuart and the Elector Palatine / J.R. Mulryne. 9. From Italy to Versailles via Bavaria: the Munich Applausi of 1662 and Les Plaisirs de l'Isle Enchantee / Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly
  • D. Festivals in France and the Italian Influence. 10. Italian Participation in French Court Ballet, Comedie-ballet and Opera, 1581-1674 / H. Gaston Hall. 11. Les 'Feste Teatrali' de Mantoue et de Florence en 1608 et leurs metamorphoses sur la scene Francaise / Marie-Claude Canova-Green. 12. De l'Entree de Cesar a Rome a l'Entree des Rois de France dans leurs Bonnes Villes / Josephe Jacquiot
  • E. Festivals in Denmark and England and the Italian Influence. 13. Ben Jonson and the Italian Festival Books / John Peacock. 14. Splendour at the Danish Court: the Coronation of Christian IV / Olav Lausund. 15. The Limitations of Festival: Christian IV's State Visit to England in 1606 / H. Neville Davies.