The Renaissance in Italy: A Social and Cultural History of the Rinascimento, by Guido Ruggiero

Margolis, Oren

doi:10.1093/ehr/cew396

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“…In the absence of strong centralized power in Italy, armed conflicts could take a number of forms. 40 The friend-foe antagonism might emerge between otherwise identical communities living in close proximity or within a city itself, and the Guelf-Ghibelline opposition could contribute to the escalation of the conflict. 41 Giovanni Villani's Nuova Cronica document some aspects of these struggles between Florence and its neighbouring cities.…”

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Images of Wartime Sexual Violence in the Chronicles of Giovanni Villani and Giovanni Sercambi*

Bokody

2021

Renaissance Studies

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Visual evidence on the perception of sexual violence from the communal period of Italy is limited. Diana Wolfthal in her groundbreaking study of medieval and early modern rape imagery showed that representations in these periods could have a critical component, and depicted these atrocities without sanitizing or eroticizing the act. This study develops on Wolfthal’s thesis by examining two sets of contemporary images from fourteenth‐century Tuscany: the Nuova Cronica of Giovanni Villani (1341–48) and the first part of Giovanni Sercambi’s Croniche (c.1400). In these works, the sack of a city appears to be the primary context of large‐scale and excessive sexual violence. In addition to their unanimous condemnatory angle, these texts and images also reveal different ideological motivations. Whereas Villani aimed at discarding the eventual charge of sexual violence against his hometown, Sercambi described the impact of mass rape on some cities. The chronicles use laconic and circumlocutory terms to report about the atrocities, which is matched with the sporadic presence of women in the imagery. In this limited visual language, the construction and destruction of city‐walls and gate may express the harm inflicted on the female bodies and, by extension, on the entire urban community.

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Section: Perceptions Of Sexual Violence In Florencementioning

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Images of Wartime Sexual Violence in the Chronicles of Giovanni Villani and Giovanni Sercambi*

Bokody

2021

Renaissance Studies

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“…By connecting this family to the biblical Magi, the Medici conveyed the impression that they were blessed by God in their rule of Florence under the guidance of Lorenzo. As Ruggiero (2015) posits, "the Magi connection was an easily recognized and powerful one; and Gozzoli represents it in a way that stresses both the family and the individuals who made it great" (p. 340). Thus, students learn a pivotal concept of the Italian Renaissance: the centrality of artistic patronage.…”

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An Analytical Approach to the Italian Renaissance through Popular TV: The case of Medici

Mariani

2020

LNH

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This article explores the educational value of using audiovisual media to enhance the learning of history and civilization in foreign language and culture classes. More specifically, it analyzes the pedagogical impact of learning about the Italian Renaissance through a television series about the Medici family, the most acclaimed patrons of the Renaissance. Focusing on the televised adaptation of this family, the article examines how media can revisit and reshape the history of this period through streaming television distribution, the important and highly popular internet-based delivery system of services such as Netflix, Hulu, HBO Go, Amazon Prime Video, YouTube TV, Sling TV, and Fubo TV. I argue that students can become conscious of the mechanisms of historical adaptation by considering their own learned perspectives, and by reshaping them through a highly dramatized and psychologically rooted narrative. Questioning students about the extent to which their understanding of the past is filtered or modified through popular culture—and about the way popular culture uses the past—leads them to think critically about historical continuity. The article pays specific attention to the two main characters in the series, entitled Medici: The Magnificent (2018): the hero, Lorenzo de’ Medici, and the villain, Jacopo Pazzi. An accurate historical and cinematic discussion of the two characters will allow me to elucidate the medium-specific potential of the TV series to teach historical facts. Drawing on a few courses I taught on Renaissance Italy, where I implemented this approach, I will demonstrate that students are not just entertained, but also actively engaged in the cognitive aspects barely to be found in written history, namely, the characters’ inner lives and struggles. The article will demonstrate that a comparison of the historical sources with their cinematic adaptation is of great pedagogical value for students.

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“…English literature began earlier than American literature, and its longer history and unique human geography have created a unique English literature [1]. Except for the earliest Anglo-Saxon period, English literature has developed complexly from the 16th century Renaissance to the 18th century Neoclassicism to the 19th century Romanticism and the more recent Modernism, showing diverse artistic characteristics [2][3][4]. Most British and American literary works are based on a certain social environment and social conditions, making many British and American literary works a "history book" reflecting the society and culture of the time [5].…”

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Studying the role of English and American literature in the dissemination of digital health concepts

Niu

2023

Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences

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This paper first analyzes the implementation of digital health education in English and American literature descriptively, based on the principles and characteristics of language art in English and American literature. Then, based on the word vector model, the CBOW model and Glove model are proposed for assigning weights to words with different occurrence frequencies, followed by linear splicing of word vectors and their additional feature vectors in sentences into final word vectors fed into the semantic analysis model, thus eliminating the phenomenon of illegal labels being predicted, improving the accuracy of semantic analysis prediction, and empirically analyzing English and American literary works under the concept of digital health analysis. The results showed that on digital health, the mean value of students’ evaluation of their mental health status in class 4 increased from 2.88 in the pre-test to 3.48 in the post-test, and the overall evaluation scores of mental health status were on an upward trend. For the model performance analysis, AvgPool’s summation and averaging of all features in the pooling domain can retain more linguistic information and reduce the training parameters to improve the model performance further. This study explores the concept of digital health in English and American literature to improve one’s cultural literacy.

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The Renaissance in Italy: A Social and Cultural History of the Rinascimento, by Guido Ruggiero

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Images of Wartime Sexual Violence in the Chronicles of Giovanni Villani and Giovanni Sercambi*

Images of Wartime Sexual Violence in the Chronicles of Giovanni Villani and Giovanni Sercambi*

An Analytical Approach to the Italian Renaissance through Popular TV: The case of Medici

Studying the role of English and American literature in the dissemination of digital health concepts

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