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UNINA9910790413403321 |
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Leo Domenic |
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Images, texts, and marginalia in a "Vows of the peacock" manuscript (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library MS G24) : with a complete concordance and catalogue of peacock manuscripts / / by Domenic Leo |
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Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (445 p.) |
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Library of the written word, , 1874-4834 ; ; volume 28. The manuscript world ; ; volume 5 |
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Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval |
Marginal illustrations |
Manuscripts, French - New York (State) - New York |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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The Glazier Peacock : texts, authors, and patrons -- The Glazier Peacock : artists -- The Glazier Peacock : miniatures -- The Glazier Peacock : marginalia -- The Glazier Peacock : festivities -- The Glazier Peacock : texts, images, and heresy -- The Glazier Peacock : conclusion -- Peacock cycle manuscripts : a concordance of miniatures -- Catalogue of manuscripts -- Appendix 1. Concordance of tituli -- Appendix 2. Arse-generated humor proverbial phrases -- Appendix 3. Pierart dou Tielt -- Appendix 4. Comparison table for proverbs in the marginalia -- Appendix 5. Comparison table for obscenae in the marginalia -- Bibliography -- Index of marginalia -- Color plates. |
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The "Vows of the Peacock" - written in 1312 and dedicated to Thibaut de Bar, bishop of Liège - recounts how Alexander the Great comes to the aid of a family of aristocrats threatened by Indians. The poem remained popular throughout the fourteenth century and was soon followed by two sequels. Twenty-six illuminated manuscripts constitute part of a catalogue and concordance of all Peacock manuscripts. One of the most provocative, (PML, MS G24), has twenty-two miniatures which illustrate chivalry and courtly love, as epitomized in the text. An unusually high number of scurrilous marginalia, however, surround them. An interdisciplinary exploration of iconography, reception, |
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image-text-marginalia dynamics, and context reveals their ultimate polysemy as scatological comedians and serious harbingers of sin. |
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UNINA9910953983403321 |
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Ferrazzi Cecilia <1609-1684.> |
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Autobiography of an aspiring saint / / Cecilia Ferrazzi ; transcribed, translated, and edited by Anne Jacobson Schutte |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c1996 |
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9786611125608 |
9781281125606 |
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9780226244488 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (135 pages) |
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Collana |
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Other voice in early modern Europe |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Catholics - Italy - Venice |
Women - Italy - Venice |
Inquisition - Italy - Venice - History - 17th century |
Venice (Italy) Biography |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 91-96) and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction to the Series -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Note on the Translation -- Testimony of Ferrazzi Preceding Her Autobiography -- Autobioraphy of Cecilia Ferrazzi -- Appendix 1 Persons Mentioned in the Text -- Appendix 2 Places Mentioned in the Text -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Charged by the Venetian Inquisition with the conscious and cynical feigning of holiness, Cecelia Ferrazzi (1609-1684) requested and obtained the unprecedented opportunity to defend herself through a presentation of her life story. Ferrazzi's unique inquisitorial autobiography and the transcripts of her preceding testimony, expertly transcribed and eloquently translated into English, allow us to enter an |
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unfamiliar sector of the past and hear 'another voice'-that of a humble Venetian woman who had extraordinary experiences and exhibited exceptional courage. Born in 1609 into an artisan family, Cecilia Ferrazzi wanted to become a nun. When her parents' death in the plague of 1630 made it financially impossible for her to enter the convent, she refused to marry and as a single laywoman set out in pursuit of holiness. Eventually she improvised a vocation: running houses of refuge for "girls in danger," young women at risk of being lured into prostitution. Ferrazzi's frequent visions persuaded her, as well as some clerics and acquaintances among the Venetian elite, that she was on the right track. The socially valuable service she was providing enhanced this impresssion. Not everyone, however, was convinced that she was a genuine favorite of God. In 1664 she was denounced to the Inquisition. The Inquisition convicted Ferrazzi of the pretense of sanctity. Yet her autobiographical act permits us to see in vivid detail both the opportunities and the obstacles presented to seventeenth-century women. |
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