An edited collection edited by Luca Degl'Innocenti, Brian Richardson, and Chiara Sbordoni
The articles in this issue study the uses and importance of orality in a range of contexts: the sung performance of poems in the piazza, language varieties on stage, the presentation of women’s speech in literary works, spoken and sung... more
The articles in this issue study the uses and importance of orality in a range of contexts: the sung performance of poems in the piazza, language varieties on stage, the presentation of women’s speech in literary works, spoken and sung devotions, and preaching in the age of the Counter-Reformation.
The essays derive from a project, funded by the European Research Council, on Oral Culture, Manuscript and Print in Early Modern Italy.
The essays derive from a project, funded by the European Research Council, on Oral Culture, Manuscript and Print in Early Modern Italy.
Research Interests: Religion, Improvisation, Censorship, Women's Studies, Comedy, and 46 moreItalian Studies, Performance Studies, Book History, Renaissance Studies, Gesture, Orality-Literacy Studies, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Reformation Studies, Lutheranism, Preaching, Inquisition, Prayer, Political communication, Italian Literature, Memory Studies, Italian Renaissance Art, Early Modern Italy, Italian Renaissance literature, Artists' Writings, Orality, Social Class, Translation, History of music, Censorship of literary and popular culture texts, Renaissance Lyric Poetry, Leonardo da Vinci, Early Modern Sermons, Early Modern print culture, Plautus, Meditation, Lauda, Chivalric literature, Italian Poetry, Street Performers, Oral Poetry, Cantari, Counter-Reformation, Pietro Aretino, Confraternities studies, Affectation, Canterino, Invocation, Verse Narrative, Street Singers, Niccolò Zoppino, and L'Altissimo (Cristoforo Fiorentino)
The articles in this issue study the uses and importance of orality in a range of contexts: the sung performance of poems in the piazza, language varieties on stage, the presentation of women’s speech in literary works, spoken and sung... more
The articles in this issue study the uses and importance of orality in a range of contexts: the sung performance of poems in the piazza, language varieties on stage, the presentation of women’s speech in literary works, spoken and sung devotions, and preaching in the age of the Counter-Reformation.
The essays derive from a project, funded by the European Research Council, on "Oral Culture, Manuscript and Print in Early Modern Italy".
The essays derive from a project, funded by the European Research Council, on "Oral Culture, Manuscript and Print in Early Modern Italy".