The eloquent body : dance and humanist culture in fifteenth-century Italy / Jennifer Nevile.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nevile, Jennifer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance--Social aspects--Italy--History--15th century.

Dance.

Humanism--Italy--History--15th century.

Humanism.

Dance--Italy--History--15th century.

History.

Dance--Social aspects.

Italy.

Physical Description:

x, 247 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2004]

Summary:

The Eloquent Body offers a history and analysis of court dancing during the Renaissance, within the context of Italian Humanism. Each chapter addresses different philosophical, social, or intellectual aspects of dance during the fifteenth century. Some topics include issues of economic class, education, and power; relating dance treatises to the ideals of Humanism and the meaning of the arts; ideas of the body as they relate to elegance, nobility, and ethics; the intellectual history of dance based on contemporaneous readings of Pythagoras and Plato; and a comparison of geometric dance structures to geometric order in Humanist architecture.

Contents:

Introduction

Dance and society

The dance treatises and humanist ideals

Eloquent movement

eloquent prose

Dance and the intellect

Order and virtue

Conclusion

Appendix 1, transcription and translation of MS from Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Magl. VII 1121, f. 63r-69v / Giovanni Carsaniga

Appendix 2, the use of mensuration signs as proportion signs in the dance treatises

Appendix 3, floor track and music of Anello, la Ingrata, Pizochara, and Verçeppe.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-240) and index.

ISBN:

0253344530

OCLC:

54374507