1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990005746490203316

Titolo

La  Corte e il Cortegiano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2 v.; 21 cm

Edizione

[Roma : Bulzoni]

Descrizione fisica

Interventi e repliche al Seminario organizzato dal Centro studi Europa delle Corti e tenuto a Casatico di Marcaria nell'ottobre del 1978.

Collana

Biblioteca del Cinquecento / 'Europa delle Corti', Centro studi sulle società di antico regime ; 8-9

Disciplina

854.5

Soggetti

Castiglione, Baldassarre. Il Cortegiano

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910467734503321

Titolo

Games and game playing in European art and literature, 16th-17th centuries / / edited by Robin O'Bryan [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2019

ISBN

90-485-4484-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cultures of play, 1300-1700

Disciplina

809.933579

Soggetti

Games in literature

Literature, Modern - 15th and 16th centuries - History and criticism

Literature, Modern - 17th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020).

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. A Passion for Games -- 1. "Mad



Chess" with a Mad Dwarf Jester -- 2. Changing Hands. Jean Desmarets, Stefano della Bella, and the Jeux de Cartes -- 3. "A game played home". The Gendered Stakes of Gambling in Shakespeare's Plays -- 4. "Now if the devil have bones,/ These dice are made of his". Dice Games on the English Stage in the Seventeenth Century -- 5. The World Upside Down. Giuseppe Maria Mitelli's Games and the Performance of Identity in the Early Modern World -- 6. "To catch the fellow, and come back again". Games of Prisoner's Base in Early Modern English Drama -- 7. Against Opposition (at Home). Middleton and Rowley's The World Tossed at Tennis as Tennis -- 8. Ordering the World. Games in the Architectural Iconography of Stirling Castle, Scotland -- 9. The Games of Philipp Hainhofer. Ludic Appreciation and Use in Early Modern Art Cabinets -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of essays examines the vogue for games and game playing as expressed in art and literature in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe. Focusing on games as a leitmotif of creative expression, these scholarly inquiries are framed as a response to two main questions: how were games used to convey special meanings in art and literature, and how did games speak to greater issues in European society? In chapters dealing with chess, playing cards, board games, dice, gambling, and outdoor and sportive games, essayists show how games were used by artists, writers, game makers and collectors, in the service of love and war, didactic and moralistic instruction, commercial enterprise, politics and diplomacy, and assertions of civic and personal identity. Offering innovative iconographical and literary interpretations, their analyses reveal how games ‘played, written about, illustrated and collected’ functioned as metaphors for a host of broader cultural issues related to gender relations and feminine power, class distinctions and status, ethical and sexual comportment, philosophical and religious ideas, and conditions of the mind.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459204703321

Autore

Ringmar Erik

Titolo

Surviving capitalism : how we learned to live with the market and remained almost human / / Erik Ringmar [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Anthem Press, , 2005

ISBN

1-283-37771-3

9786613377715

1-84331-761-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 198 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Anthem studies in development and globalization

Disciplina

306.3/42

Soggetti

Capitalism - Social aspects

Globalization - Economic aspects

Globalization - Political aspects

Social change - History

Social values

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-187) and index.

Nota di contenuto

; 1. The inevitability and inhumanity of capitalism -- ; 2. How society protects itself -- ; 3. The European idea of the home -- ; 4. The Chinese family -- ; 5. European sects, guilds and trade unions -- ; 6. Japanese business corporations -- ; 7. Personal Thais, and how they survived the boom -- ; 8. Versions of the European state -- ; 9. The state in China and Japan -- ; 10. How we survived capitalism -- ; 11. The coming crisis.

Sommario/riassunto

A fresh, funny and imaginative discourse on the nature of capitalism and how society has learned to cope with it.