Gianni Guastella

Word of Mouth

Fama and Its Personifications in Art and Literature from Ancient Rome to the Middle Ages

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Produktbeschreibung

Word of Mouth offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the evolving personifications of the ancient concept of fama in ancient and medieval literature and in European figurative art between the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 458
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9780198724292
• ISBN-10: 0198724292
• Artikelnr.: 47871042

Autorenporträt

Gianni Guastella is Professor of Latin Language and Literature at the University of Siena. His research interests focus mainly on Roman theatre and its reception in the culture of the medieval and Renaissance periods. He has published widely on topics ranging from the theatre of Plautus, Archaic Latin metre, and the reception of Apuleius, to family relationships in the Roman world, including authored monographs on Terence's comedies and Seneca's tragedies, an edited volume on the rediscovery of classical theatre in the Modern period, and commentaries on two of Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
0: Introduction
0.1 Hendrik Goltzius, Fame and Virtue (1586)
0.2 Prosopon/persona
0.3 Forms of Fama
1: Flying Information
1.1 Movement in Space
1.2 Winged bodies, divine messengers
1.3 Epea pteroenta: the flight of the word
1.4 'Ce télégraphe est un mystère social'
1.5 An uncertain point of departure, no destination
1.6 Mysterious testimonies
2: Lat. Fama
2.1 Fama a fando dicta
3: True and False
3.1 In court
3.2 A rumoribus, contra rumores
3.3 Fama, nomen incerti
4: Producers and Performers of Rumour
4.1 Modern theories on rumour and gossip
4.2 The multimedia transmission of information
4.3 The instability of rumours
4.4 Fama and rumor
5: Authority
5.1 Auctor
5.2 Believing someone s words
5.3 A curious messenger
6: Giving Rumour a Body
6.1 Homer, Hesiod
6.2 The cult of Pheme
6.3 Fama embodied
6.4 Fama disembodied
7: Beyond Death
7.1 Fama and gloria: Cicero, Boethius, Augustine
7.2 'Vana Gloria', 'Gloria Mondana'
7.3 'Passan vostri trionfi e vostre pompe': Petrarch and glory
8: Giving Glory a Body
8.1 Figures without iconographic models: Glory and Vainglory
8.2 The first images of modern Fama : the Glory of illustrious men
8.3 The image of Worldly Glory
8.4 From the Triumph of Gloria del popol mondano to the Triumphus Fame
8.5 A composite triumphal scenario
9: Contaminations
9.1 Figurative contaminations
9.2 Integrating Rumour and Glory
10: Chaucer, House of Fame
10.1 A pagan majesty
10.2 Fame and Fortune: a capricious judgment
10.3 Where tidings are born
10.4 A playful fictional universe
11: Conclusion
Bibliographical References
Index