Katharina N Piechocki
Biographic Data
| ID | 1375895 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katharina N Piechocki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katharina N |
| FAMILY NAME | Piechocki |
| SIGNATURE | PIECHOCKI K N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Written World
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Compulsive Masculinity
This essay investigates the rise of Italian-style opera in Paris through the lens of Ercole amante, an opera composed by Francesco Cavalli to a libretto by Francesco Buti for the wedding of the future French king Louis XIV and the Spanish infanta Maria Teresa in 1660. In the libretto Buti explores the blend of two distinct, and yet intertwined, preoccupations: the investment in the rise of operatic poetics as a new literary genre and the anxiety …
Das Grenzwesen Mensch, Vormoderne Naturphilosophie und Literatur im Dialog mit Postmoderner Gendertheorie
Das Grenzwesen Mensch, Vormoderne Naturphilosophie und Literatur im Dialog mit Postmoderner Gendertheorie. Marlen Bidwell-Steiner. Mimesis 65. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017. x + 320 pp. $114.99. - Volume 72 Issue 2
Renaissance ethnography and the invention of the human. New worlds, maps and monsters
In his Natural History, Pliny the Elder describes “monstrous” peoples and races such as the Sciopods (moving, with one large leg, at high speed), Blemmyiae (bearing their faces on their chests), Cy
Cartographic Translation
Organized as regional tables, Ptolemaic maps transform the natural boundaries of an incommensurate landscape into simple geometric figures that are fitted into—and sometimes correspond with—a square or trapezoid space. Caesar, whom Bruni references in his letter to Pizolpassi, had equally reduced Britain’s natural landscape to a geometric form when he wrote that “the natural shape of the island is triangular, and one side lies opposite to Gaul.”2…
Transnational Mobilities in Early Modern Theater
Transnational Mobilities in Early Modern Theater. Robert Henke and Eric Nicholson, eds. Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. xvi + 304 pp. $109.95. - Volume 69 Issue 1
James Gardner (trans.), Girolamo Fracastoro, Latin Poetry
I drammi musicali di Giovanni Faustini per Francesco Cavalli
Nicola Badolato. I drammi musicali di Giovanni Faustini per Francesco Cavalli. Historiae Musicae Cultores 122. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2012. 532 pp. €55. ISBN: 978–88–222–61366–6. - Volume 66 Issue 4
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I drammi musicali di Giovanni Faustini per Francesco Cavalli
Nicola Badolato. I drammi musicali di Giovanni Faustini per Francesco Cavalli. Historiae Musicae Cultores 122. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2012. 532 pp. €55. ISBN: 978–88–222–61366–6. - Volume 66 Issue 4
Transnational Mobilities in Early Modern Theater
Transnational Mobilities in Early Modern Theater. Robert Henke and Eric Nicholson, eds. Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. xvi + 304 pp. $109.95. - Volume 69 Issue 1
James Gardner (trans.), Girolamo Fracastoro, Latin Poetry
Renaissance ethnography and the invention of the human. New worlds, maps and monsters
In his Natural History, Pliny the Elder describes “monstrous” peoples and races such as the Sciopods (moving, with one large leg, at high speed), Blemmyiae (bearing their faces on their chests), Cy
Cartographic Translation
Organized as regional tables, Ptolemaic maps transform the natural boundaries of an incommensurate landscape into simple geometric figures that are fitted into—and sometimes correspond with—a square or trapezoid space. Caesar, whom Bruni references in his letter to Pizolpassi, had equally reduced Britain’s natural landscape to a geometric form when he wrote that “the natural shape of the island is triangular, and one side lies opposite to Gaul.”2…
Das Grenzwesen Mensch, Vormoderne Naturphilosophie und Literatur im Dialog mit Postmoderner Gendertheorie
Das Grenzwesen Mensch, Vormoderne Naturphilosophie und Literatur im Dialog mit Postmoderner Gendertheorie. Marlen Bidwell-Steiner. Mimesis 65. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017. x + 320 pp. $114.99. - Volume 72 Issue 2
Compulsive Masculinity
This essay investigates the rise of Italian-style opera in Paris through the lens of Ercole amante, an opera composed by Francesco Cavalli to a libretto by Francesco Buti for the wedding of the future French king Louis XIV and the Spanish infanta Maria Teresa in 1660. In the libretto Buti explores the blend of two distinct, and yet intertwined, preoccupations: the investment in the rise of operatic poetics as a new literary genre and the anxiety …
The Written World
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
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