A Worlde of Wordes

Florio, John; Vizmuller-Zocco, Jana

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“…In the Italian-speaking contexts on which this essay focuses, the word razza took on a mix of taxonomic and generative elements. John Florio's World of Words considered razza "a race, a kind, a broode, a stocke, a descent, a lineage, a pedigree" (Florio, 1598(Florio, , 1611. In Italian, everything that was bred had a race, and everything had been bred.…”

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“…Over the course of the sixteenth century, the Gonzaga stabled and bred various types of horses with origins in both international exchanges and local stock (Cavriani, 1909;Tonni, 2012). Using the same categories employed throughout many European courts, names for human ethnic groups or warriors were folded into popular animal names (Cooley, 2022;Florio, 1611Florio, , 1598Tonni, 2012). The barbs ("barbarous, incivall, also a Barbary horse" (Florio, 1598)), imported from North Africa (Barbary Coast), were reputed to be the fastest.…”

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“…Using the same categories employed throughout many European courts, names for human ethnic groups or warriors were folded into popular animal names (Cooley, 2022;Florio, 1611Florio, , 1598Tonni, 2012). The barbs ("barbarous, incivall, also a Barbary horse" (Florio, 1598)), imported from North Africa (Barbary Coast), were reputed to be the fastest. Jennets ("a iennet or Spanish horse"), used for riding, had long been carefully bred in Andalusia; their light bone structure was supposed to come from their Moorish ancestors, which included North African barbs.…”

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Horse racing: Unnatural selection in the renaissance

Cooley

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This article uses the renaissance culture of horse racing as a window into the practices and language of breeding, artifice, and race. The popular palio racing circuit brought local and foreign horses into Italian city centers to test their speed. Racing culture, and other formal and informal competitions related to animals incentivized the development of specialized horse breeds called razze in Italian; this term is a precursor of the modern English “race.” To make these animals, renaissance patrons and animal experts engaged in unnatural selection. Their selective breeding efforts committed more to growing than weeding, aimed to create horses as works of art, branded animals so that they would be recognizable and cemented a discourse of race that emphasized the reproductive and training work of sponsored experts. This synthetic overview meditates on the transhistorical language of breeding and the consequences of excluding animals from our historical understanding of the making of the idea of race.

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This article traces a history of disgust from the moment the word is first attested in English. It tracks the grammar of disgust and its relationship to an emerging socioaesthetics of taste in an urban scene. And it explores some of the literary texts that take disgust as their subject: Ben Jonson’s Poetaster and “On the Famous Voyage,” Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene , with reference to William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure . The largest claim is that in the early modern period a rhetorical theory of the passions that treats them as situated social events decisively shaped the forms of literary production with results that are still with us today.

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Horse racing: Unnatural selection in the renaissance

Horse racing: Unnatural selection in the renaissance

Disgust c . 1600

Milton's Earthbound Bodies: Genesis, Physics, Aesthetics

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