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Item Number: 124368
Title: New Approaches to Naples c.1500–c.1800 : The Power of Place
Author: Calaresu, Melissa ; Helen Hills (eds)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781409429432
Description: Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. 24cm., hardcover, 286pp., 38 b&w, 7 color illus. Contents: Introduction; Between exoticism and marginalization: new approaches to Naples, Melissa Calaresu and Helen Hills. Section I Disaster and Decline: Myths of modernity and the myth of the city: when the historiography of pre-modern Italy goes south, John Marino; Through a glass darkly: material holiness and the Treasury Chapel of San Gennaro in Naples, Helen Hills; Contaminating bodies: print and the 1656 plague in Naples, Rose Marie San Juan. Section II Topographies: Topographies of poetry: mapping early modern Naples, Harald Hendrix; The collection and dissemination of Neapolitan music, c.1600-c.1790, Dinko Fabris; landed identity and the Bourbon Neapolitan state: Claude-Joseph Vernet and the politics of the ‘siti reali’, Helena Hammond. Section III Exceptionality: The architecture of knowledge: science, collecting, and display in 18th-century Naples, Paola Bertucci; Collecting Neapolitans: the representation of street life in late 18th-century Naples, Melissa Calaresu; ‘Missed opportunities’ in the history of Naples, Anna Maria Rao.
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