Baroque Naples by Jeanne Chenault Porter

Baroque Naples by Jeanne Chenault Porter

Baroque Naples presents documents on the history, culture, and art of the city during its golden age of prestige and prosperity under the Spanish Hapsburgs and Bourbons. Texts cover the history of the city and kingdom, contemporary travel guides, descriptions of the city's art, architecture and classical inheritance, its literature, music and theater. There are also chapters that offer texts by the famed Neapolitan economists, legal thinkers and philosophers of the age; a survey of religious thought, and of the Neapolitan contribution to the natural sciences. The selections are preceded by brief introductions to the writers and the ideas presented in the texts. Sixty-nine selections include Enrico Bacco, John Evelyn, Salvator Rosa, Luigi Vanvitelli, the Neapolitan Marinisti, Pietro Trapassi (Metastasio), Giovanni Battista Della Porta, Antonio Serra, Giuseppe Palmieri, Gaetano Filangieri, Tommaso Campanella, Giambattista Vico, Fynes Moryson and many others. The volume also includes brief biographies and chronologies. 60 illustrations, 3 maps, introduction, bibliography, index.

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ISBN 13	9780934977524
ISBN 10	0934977526
Titel	Baroque Naples
Autor	Jeanne Chenault Porter
Serie	A Documentary History Of Naples
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Italica Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1999-12-31
Seitenanzahl	302
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