Phaethon's Children: The Este Court and Its Culture in Early Modern Ferrara

Edited by Dennis Looney (University of Pittsburgh) and Deanna Shemek (University of California, Santa Cruz)
2005 | 484 + xii pp. | 18 ills. | Hardcover | 6 x 9 in | 978-0-86698-329-7 | MRTS 286
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Phaethon’s Children: The Este Court and Its Culture in Early Modern Ferrara brings together essays that range across numerous disciplines to examine Ferrarese cultural production from approximately 1400 to 1598. Over these two centuries, the Estense city developed cultural practices, visual arts, music, and literature that bear a distinct Ferrarese imprint. This volume explores the range of materials that beckons researchers to Ferrara in the fields of literary studies, history, the history of visual arts and culture, musicology, anthropology, women’s studies, ethnic and religious studies, theater and performance history, and other specializations, materials that have played a primary role in the cultural and political history of Italy as well as Ferrara.

Table of Contents

  • Albert Russell Ascoli

  • Jane Bestor

  • Robert Bonfil

  • Riccardo Bruscagli

  • Louise George Clubb

  • Anthony Colantuono

  • Trevor Dean

  • Diane Ghirardo

  • Werner Gundersheimer

  • Lewis Lockwood

  • Dennis Looney

  • David Quint

  • Deanna Shemek

  • Janet Levarie Smarr

  • Richard M. Tristano