King of the Renaissance: Art and Politics at the Neapolitan Court of Ferrante I, 1458-1494

In the second half of the fifteenth century, King Ferrante I of Naples (r. 1458-1494) dominated the political and cultural life of the Mediterranean world. His court was home to artists, writers, musicians, and ambassadors from England to Egypt and everywhere in between. Yet, despite its historical importance, Ferrante’s court has been neglected in the scholarship. This dissertation provides a long-overdue analysis of Ferrante’s artistic patronage and attempts to explicate the king’s specific role in the process of art production at the Neapolitan court, as well as the experiences of artists employed therein. By situating Ferrante and the material culture of his court within the broader discourse of Early Modern art history for the first time, my project broadens our understanding of the function of art in Early Modern Europe. I demonstrate that, contrary to traditional assumptions, King Ferrante was a sophisticated patron of the visual arts whose political circumstances and shifting alliances were the most influential factors contributing to his artistic patronage. Unlike his father, Alfonso the Magnanimous, whose court was dominated by artists and courtiers from Spain, France, and elsewhere, Ferrante differentiated himself as a truly Neapolitan king. Yet Ferrante’s court was by no means provincial. His residence, the Castel Nuovo in Naples, became the physical embodiment of his commercial and political network, revealing the accretion of local and foreign visual vocabularies that characterizes Neapolitan visual culture.

The importance of being Alfred -- from the king of West Saxons to Nobel

The article appeared in a Festschrift devoted to a distinguished Polish linguist Professor Alfred F. Majewicz. It discusses the Christian name Alfred born by the Jubilarian in its various aspects: its Anglo-Saxon origins, etymology and popularity (past and present) in various European countries, with particular emphasis on Poland. It also presents some famous people, literary characters and pop culture heroes bearing this name.

Moriscos peninsulares, moros filipinos y el islam en el extremo oriental del imperio español: estudio y edición de la Segunda carta para la S.C.M.R. acerca de los mahometanos de las Philipinas de Melchor de Ávalos (1585)

Exposición y análisis de los argumentos que utilizó Melchor de Ávalos en la "Segunda carta para la S.C.M.R acerca de los mahometanos de las Philipinas", que dirige a Felipe II en 1585. Se concluye que son argumentos del derecho canónico que ya se utilizaron para justificar la conquista de al-Andalus primero y luego la expulsión de los moriscos. Se publica como apéndice este documento.

Vita della venerabile serva di Dio, Maria Cristina di Savoia, regina delle Due Sicilie cavata da'processi per la di lei beatificazione e canonizzazione.

Mode of access: Internet.

Descripcion del túmulo y relacion de las exequias que hizo la ciudad de Sevilla en la muerte del rey don Felipe segvndo,

"Prologo del editor" signed: Francisco de B. Palomo.

Mélanges biographiques et littéraires,

Mode of access: Internet.

La jeunesse de Catherine de Médicis;

Mode of access: Internet.

Politische Correspondenz Friedrich's des Grossen ...

Imprint varies: v. 1-35, Berlin, A. Duncker.--v. 36-39 and Ergänzungsband, Berlin, R. Hobbing.--v. 40- Leipzig, Quelle & Meyer.

Heinrich Ludewig Manger's, Königl. Preuss. Ober-Hof-Baurath und Garteninspectors, Baugeschichte von Potsdam : besonders unter der Regierung König Friedrichs des Zweiten.

1. Bd. Die Baugeschichte von den ältesten Zeiten bis 1762 -- 2. Bd. Die Baugeschichte vom Jahre 1763 bis zu 1786 -- 3. Bd. Nachrichten von den Baumeistern, Kassenverwaltern, den übrigen Vorfällen und ein Verzeichniss der verwendeten Baukosten. Register über alle drey Bände.

Über die Flugschriften Friedrich's des Grossen aus der Zeit des siebenjährigen Krieges /

Includes some text in French.

Rameses the Great; or, Egypt 3300 years ago.

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König Philipp, Sohn des Amyntas von Makedonien, und die hellenischen Staaten,

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Lettres inédites de Mme. la Mise. Du Châtelet [à Maupertuis]

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Traité des grandes opérations militaires, ou Histoire critique des guerres de Frédéric le Grand comparées au système moderne, avec un recueil des principes les plus importants de l'art de la guerre;

The atlas has caption title only: Légendes, pour l'intelligence de l'atlas des guerres de sept ans.

Nebuchadnezzar,

Mode of access: Internet.