Universities were among the most consequential institutions of the later middle ages, but in their formative years their success was threatened by the vehement critiques …
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 Modernity: …
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 …
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, reflecting …
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 …
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 …
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 translation …
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 …
