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The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance : Skeptics, Libertines, and Opera.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Bernard Berenson Lectures on the Italian Renaissance SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (192 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674041264
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Culture Wars of the Late RenaissanceDDC classification:
  • 945/.3107
LOC classification:
  • DG675
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Skeptics Galileo's telescope andcremonini's headache -- 2. The Libertines The celestial divorce -- 3. The Librettists Poppea in the opera box -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: Muir explores an era of cultural innovation that promoted free inquiry in the face of philosophical and theological orthodoxy, advocated libertine morals, critiqued the tyranny of aristocratic fathers over their daughters, and expanded the theatrical potential of grand opera. In so doing, he reveals the distinguished past of today's culture wars.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Skeptics Galileo's telescope andcremonini's headache -- 2. The Libertines The celestial divorce -- 3. The Librettists Poppea in the opera box -- Notes -- Index.

Muir explores an era of cultural innovation that promoted free inquiry in the face of philosophical and theological orthodoxy, advocated libertine morals, critiqued the tyranny of aristocratic fathers over their daughters, and expanded the theatrical potential of grand opera. In so doing, he reveals the distinguished past of today's culture wars.

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