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Voices and Texts in Early Modern Italian Society (Hardcover)
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Voices and Texts in Early Modern Italian Society (Hardcover)
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This book studies the uses of orality in Italian society, across
all classes, from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, with an
emphasis on the interrelationships between oral communication and
the written word. The Introduction provides an overview of the
topic as a whole and links the chapters together. Part 1 concerns
public life in the states of northern, central, and southern Italy.
The chapters examine a range of performances that used the spoken
word or song: concerted shouts that expressed the feelings of the
lower classes and were then recorded in writing; the proclamation
of state policy by town criers; songs that gave news of executions;
the exercise of power relations in society as recorded in trial
records; and diplomatic orations and interactions. Part 2 centres
on private entertainments. It considers the practices of the
performance of poetry sung in social gatherings and on stage with
and without improvisation; the extent to which lyric poets
anticipated the singing of their verse and collaborated with
composers; performances of comedies given as dinner entertainments
for the governing body of republican Florence; and a reading of a
prose work in a house in Venice, subsequently made famous through a
printed account. Part 3 concerns collective religious practices.
Its chapters study sermons in their own right and in relation to
written texts, the battle to control spaces for public performance
by civic and religious authorities, and singing texts in sacred
spaces.
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