This dissertation studies the philosophical implications and formal repercussions of melancholy in Spanish poetry at the turn of the seventeenth century, along with the constructions …
George Ticknor (1791-1871) was an instrumental figure in establishing a scholarly reputation for the United States in the early to mid nineteenth century. His writings …
In 1667, Gian Lorenzo Bernini—the most celebrated Italian artist of his day—received a papal commission to design ten marble angels carrying the relics of the …
While scholars have examined at length the so-called "Celestina Cycle," or works inspired by La Celestina, they have not compared the parallel reception of this …
This dissertation examines how pictorial printmaking in Rome promoted cultural and artistic networks connecting Italy and the Spanish Empire in the second-half of the sixteenth …
Translatio Hierosolymae: The Rhetoric of Jerusalem in Early Modern Spain locates Jerusalem at the heart of a series of social practices and discourses through which …
This dissertation offers the first paradigmatic study of Latin poetry written in colonial Latin America in the style of Virgil. The aim of this project …
