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"Melodramma," Market and Modernity: Opera in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy

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Abstract of “MELODRAMMA,” MARKET AND MODERNITY: OPERA IN LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY ITALY by MICHELA RONZANI, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2015. My dissertation “Melodramma,” Market, and ...
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2015
Contributors:
Ronzani, Michela (creator) Stewart-Steinberg, Suzanne (Director) Castiglione, Caroline (Reader) Riva, Massimo (Reader) Campana, Alessandra (Reader) Brown University. Italian Studies (sponsor)
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Italian Opera Nineteenth-Century Italy
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Angelic Devotion: Embodying Belief with Bernini's Angels on the Ponte Sant'Angelo

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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 ...
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2018
Contributors:
Whitford, Kelly (creator) Lincoln, Evelyn (Advisor) Castiglione, Caroline (Reader) Bass, Laura (Reader) Brown University. Department of History of Art and Architecture (sponsor)
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Opera Catholic Church History of Art Sculpture Baroque Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680 Italy--Rome Performance theory Ritual Pilgrims and pilgrimages City planning Ponte Sant'Angelo Castel Sant'Angelo Tordinona Public Executions Angels Guardian angels Angels in art Cult of Angels Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano Arciconfraternita della Misericordia (Rome, Italy) Processions, Religious
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Beware the "Hive of Presbytery": The Scottish Presbyterian as Folk Devil in Restoration Britain

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2018
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Campbell, Andrew Steven (creator) Timothy, Harris (Advisor) Harold, Cook (Reader) Castiglione, Caroline (Reader) Brown University. Department of History (sponsor)
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British History Ballads, Scots Ballads, English Pamphlets Scottish History Presbyterians Covenanters--Persecutions English Restoration stereotyping Stigmatization folk devil
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Doorways to the Demonic and Divine: Visions of Santa Francesca Romana and the Frescoes of Tor de'Specchi

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The noblewomen-turned-oblates who commissioned the impressive body of imagery at Tor de'Specchi were at once pious servants of God and savvy consumers of art ...
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2010
Contributors:
Scanlan, Suzanne M (creator) Lincoln, Evelyn (Director) Bonde, Sheila (Reader) Castiglione, Caroline (Reader) Brown University. History of Art and Architecture (sponsor)
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Francesca Romana demons quattrocento Rome art history pinzochere women's monasticism Visions Demonology
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Outsiders, Crisis, and the Remaking of Urban Community in Medieval France, 1348–1500

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This study compares the effects of epidemics, wars, famines, and economic upheaval on the ways that municipal authorities in late medieval France treated those groups ...
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2015
Contributors:
Boss, Adam Samuel (creator) Remensnyder, Amy (Director) Castiglione, Caroline (Reader) Nummedal, Tara (Reader) Brown University. History (sponsor)
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Late Medieval Europe Crisis Strangers & Outsiders
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Pedagogy of Catastrophe: Maria Montessori's Children at Risk

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Pedagogy of Catastrophe traces a new attitude towards childhood that developed in Italy at the beginning of the 20th century. Focusing on moments of natural ...
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2012
Contributors:
Moretti, Erica (creator) Stewart-Steinberg, Suzanne (Director) Castiglione, Caroline (Reader) Riva, Massimo (Reader) Kertzer, David (Reader) Brown University. Italian Studies (sponsor)
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Modern Italian History National Identity Motherhood
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The Letters of Bernardo Tasso (1549) with an Annotated Translation

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Abstract of "The Letters of Bernardo Tasso (1549) with an Annotated Translation" by Christine F. Andrade, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2011This is the first ...
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2011
Contributors:
Andrade, Christine Frances (creator) Oldcorn, Anthony (Director) Martinez, Ronald (Director) Castiglione, Caroline (Reader) Brown University. Italian Studies (sponsor)
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Italian Wars courtier secretary epistolography Aretino Cicero letter collections Letters Sixteenth century Renaissance Humanism Printing Courts and courtiers Princes
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Women in Arms: Gender in the Risorgimento, 1848-1861

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This dissertation recovers the experiences of women in arms by investigating their representations during the Italian Risorgimento. An analysis of their experience can illuminate the ...
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2010
Contributors:
Gennaro, Benedetta (creator) Stewart-Steinberg, Suzanne (Director) Castiglione, Caroline (Reader) Riva, Massimo (Reader) Kertzer, David (Reader) Brown University. Italian Studies (sponsor)
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Risorgimento Gender Modern History 19th Century Maria Martini della Torre Luigia Battistotti Sassi Colomba Antonietti Giuseppe Garibaldi Sex Women soldiers History, Modern
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