The Italian Academies 1525-1700: Networks of Culture, Innovation and Dissent (Legenda)

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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
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Notes on the Contributors
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Introduction
PART I: ACADEMIES AND THE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT
	1 Defining the Place of Academies in Florentine Culture and Politics
	2 Pro- and anti-Medici? Political Ambivalence and Social Integration in the Accademia degli Alterati (Florence, 1569–c. 1625)
	3 Accademie senesi: tramonto e alba di una respublica litteraria
	4 Reforming Theatre in Farnese Parma: The Case of the Accademia degli Innominati (1574–1608)
	5 The Accademia della Fucina: Culture and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Messina
PART II: ACADEMIES AND RELIGION IN COUNTER-REFORMATION CULTURE
	6 The Accademia della Virtù and Religious Dissent
	7 A Ghost Academy between Venice and Brescia: Philosophical Scepticism and Religious Heterodoxy in the Accademia dei Dubbiosi
	8 Between Church, University and Academies: Paolo Beni in Padua, 1599–1623
PART III: ORGANISATION, CONFIGURATION AND MEMBERSHIP
	9 Members, Muses, Mascots: Women and Italian Academies
	10 The Accademia di San Luca between Educational and Religious Reform
	11 ‘Nec longum tempus’: l’Accademia dei Gelati tra XVI e XVII secolo (1588–1614)
	12 Italian Academies and their ‘Facebooks’
PART IV: LITERATURE AND THE ARTS : EXPERIMENTATION, INNOVATION AND PRODUCTION
	13 Accademia come palestra e come tribuna: Girolamo Ruscelli sdegnato, ardente, dubbioso, fratteggiano
	14 L’Accademia Palermitana degli Accesi: un esempio di petrarchismo nel tardo Cinquecento
	15 Da Francesco Petrarca a Giovan Battista Marino: l’Accademia degli Insensati di Perugia (1561–1608)
	16 Bronzino e l’Accademia Fiorentina
	17 La poesia funebre all’Accademia Olimpica di Vicenza
	18 Dee, imperatrici, cortigiane: la natura della donna nei romanzi degli Incogniti (Venezia)
APPENDIX: A NEW RESOURCE FOR THE ITALIAN ACADEMIES ‘Accademie siciliane 1400–1701’: Una nuova bancadati bio-bibliografica
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Index