Benedetto Varchi. On the birth of artefacts. Architecture, Alchemie and power in the late-renaissance Florence.
Devlieger, Lionel / Verschaffel, Bart en van Eck, Caroline (promotoren). - ID: 15318
Proefschrift ingediend tot het behalen van de graad van Doctor in de Toegepaste Wetenschappen: Architectuur. Vakgroep Architectuur & Stedenbouw. Voorzitter: prof. dr. Bart Verschaffel. Faculteit Ingenieurswetenschappen. Academiejaar 2004-2005. CONTENT: 1) Varchi's early years. From fuoruscito to cortegiano. 2) Benedetto Varchi Lecturer at the Fiorentina. 3) Benedetto Varchi and the Biological Roots of Concetti. 4) Love and pleasure. The nature of the drive for generation. 5) Physiocracy, or the Rule of Nature. 6) Ducal Alchemy. 7) Passing down Virtu. 8) Benvenuto Cellini. The recalcitrant agent. Appendix I: Benedetto Varchi' published Fiorentina lectures. Appendix II: Varchi's naturalist friends.
Softcover, x+[4]+vi+331pp.,16x24cm., illustr. in b/w., in accaptable / good condition (covers with traces of use, spine folded).
16x24cm
331 pp.
Universiteit Gent 2005 Gent