Milan and Lombardy in the Renaissance
Subtitle: essays in cultural history
By: Cynthia M. Pyle ; presentation by Paolo Bongrani.
Series: Testi e studi.; nuova ser., 1
Publisher: La Fenice
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Roma
Language: eng; mul
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Renaissance -- Italy -- Milan.; Renaissance -- Italy -- Lombardy.; Milan (Italy) -- Civilization -- To 1535.; Lombardy (Italy) -- Civilization -- To 1535.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

CONTENTS (with English translations, where necessary):
Presentazione di Paolo Bongrani (Presentation by Paolo Bongrani) p. IX
Preface p. XIII
List of Illustrations p. XVII
Acknowledgements p. XIX

Part I. Introduction
Chapter I. Literary and Intellectual Currents in the Sforza Court (1450-1535) p. 3

Part II. Pier Candido Decembrio and Lombard Humanism
Chapter II. Pier Candido Decembrio and Rome: His Hand and the Vatican
Manuscript of his Treatise on Natural History (MS Urb. lat. 276) p. 31
Chapter III. Harvard MS Richardson 23: A ʹPendantʹ to Vatican MS Urb. lat. 276
and a Significant Exemplar for P. C. Decembrioʹs Opuscula Historica p. 45

Part III. Court and Culture in Quattrocento Milan
Chapter IV. Towards the Biography of Gaspar Ambrogio Visconti p. 59
Appendix I: Contemporary and Near-Contemporary Homonyms
Appendix II: Letter and Epigram by Giovanni II Tolentino Addressed to
Gaspare Visconti
Chapter V. Neoplatonic Currents and Gaspare Viscontiʹs Fragmentum
(MS Triv. 1093) p. 83
Chapter VI. Per la biografia di Baldassare Taccone
(Toward the Biography of B. T.) p. 95
Appendice: Lettere di Giovanni II Tolentino a Baldassare Taccone, con qualche
epigramma (edizione del 1512)
Chapter VII. Una relazione sconosciuta delle nozze di Isabella dʹAragona con
Giangaleazzo Sforza nel febbraio 1489: Giovanni II Tolentino a
Baldassare Taccone
(An Unknown Report on the Wedding of Isabella dʹA. and Giangaleazzo
S., Feb. 1489: Giovanni II T. to B. T.) p. 127

Part IV. Theater as Mirror in Northern Italian Culture
Chapter VIII. The Birth of Vernacular Comedy: Gaspare Viscontiʹs Pasithea p. 139
Appendix: Comparisons of V.ʹs Pasithea with the Cantare di Pirramo e Tisbe
Chapter IX. Il neoplatonismo e le favole mitologiche del tardo Quattrocento settentrionale: per unʹiconologia
del teatro
(Neoplatonism and the favole mitologiche of late Quattrocento
Northern Italy: Towards an Iconology of Theater) p. 151
Chapter X. Three Renaissance Womenʹs Soliloquies Written by Men p. 183
Appendix I: From Giraldi Cinzioʹs Orbecche, II, 4
Appendix II: From Agrippa, De nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus

Part V. Conclusion: Milan and Beyond
Chapter XI. Democritus and Heracleitus: An Excursus on the Cover of this Book p. 203

Indices: Index of Names; Index of Mythological and Fictional Characters;
Index of Manuscripts pp. 225-247