Memory and Performance. Classical Reception in Early Modern Festivals

Francesca Bortoletti, Giovanna Di Martino, Eugenio Refini – Preface
Francesca Bortoletti, Eugenio Refini –Introduction. Ephemeral Renaissance. Myth and Drama in Renaissance Festivals and Performing Rituals Daniela Sacco – The Performativity of the Classical According to Warburg: Pathosformeln and Memory in Renaissance Festivals
Claudio Passera – The Glory of Rome Comes Back to Life. Real and Ephemeral Triumphal Arches for a Renaissance Wedding. Rimini 1475
Sergio Costola – Lucrezia Borgia’s Triumphal Chariot: Notes on Performance Documentation
Raimondo Guarino – Nympha loci: Gardens, Statues and Poetry in Early Renaissance Rome
Jan Bažant – Pompa in Honorem Ferdinandi, 1558 Benedetta Colasanti – A Rediscovery of Antiquity. Traces of Ancient Mechanics in the Staging of the Opening Perfomance of the Farnese Theatre in Parma (1628)
Edmund Thomas – Bernini’s Two Theatres and the Trauma of Classical Reception 
Maria Czepiel – “Como la luz de la fe te falte”: the Privileging of the Christian over the Pagan in Calderón’s El divino Orfeo (1634) 
Borja Franco Llopis, IvÁn Rega Castro – Representations of the Battle of the Giants: an Early Modern Anti-Islamic Allegory Deployed by the Hispanic Monarchy 

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