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The eloquent body : dance and humanist culture in fifteenth-century Italy / Jennifer Nevile.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: x, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0253344530
  • 9780253344533
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.48460945
LOC classification:
  • GV1588.6 .N48 2004
Contents:
1. Dance and society -- 2. The dance treatises and humanist ideals -- 3. Eloquent movement - eloquent prose -- 4. Dance and the intellect -- 5. Order and virtue -- App. 1. Transcription and translation of MS from Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Magl. VII 1121, f. 63r-69v / Giovanni Carsaniga -- App. 2. The use of mensuration signs as proportion signs in the dance treatises -- App. 3. Floor track and music of Anello, Ingrata, Pizochara, and Verceppe.
Review: "The Eloquent Body offers a history and analysis of court dancing during the Renaissance, within the context of Italian Humanism. Each chapter addresses different philosophical, social, or intellectual aspects of dance during the fifteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-240) and index.

1. Dance and society -- 2. The dance treatises and humanist ideals -- 3. Eloquent movement - eloquent prose -- 4. Dance and the intellect -- 5. Order and virtue -- App. 1. Transcription and translation of MS from Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Magl. VII 1121, f. 63r-69v / Giovanni Carsaniga -- App. 2. The use of mensuration signs as proportion signs in the dance treatises -- App. 3. Floor track and music of Anello, Ingrata, Pizochara, and Verceppe.

"The Eloquent Body offers a history and analysis of court dancing during the Renaissance, within the context of Italian Humanism. Each chapter addresses different philosophical, social, or intellectual aspects of dance during the fifteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.

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