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Among the topics are Salmacis, Hermaphrodite, and the inversion of gender: allegorical interpretations and pictorial representations of an Ovidian myth; lamenting, dancing, praising: the multilayered presence of nymphs in Florentine elegiac poetry of the Quattrocento; Renaissance nymphs as intermediaries in early modern German territorial politics; the medialilty of the nymph in the cultured context of Pirro Visconti's villa at Lainate; and our white ladies on the graves: historicizations of nymphs in early modern antiquarianism.

"Alberti e la nuova direzione dell'umanesimo rinascimentale" is a general analysis of the new direction in Quattrocento humanism inaugurated by Alberti, especially the ability to appreciate texts of every type, including technical treatises, works of humor, and books by 'bad' writers that are nevertheless useful for the wisdom they contain.

2 at Galleria Quattrocento in Bonifacio Global City.

In a field as extraordinarily fecund as Quattrocento Florence, the role of women as patrons of art has been notably absent from the historiography.

This volume, Part D, of the Backpack edition begins with chapter 14 and page 400, and covers late Medieval Italy, late Medieval and early Renaissance northern Europe, Quattrocento Italy, mannerism in Cinquecento Italy, high Renaissance and mannerism in northern Europe and Spain, the Baroque in Italy and Spain, and the Baroque in northern Europe.

La ricostruzione storica dell'eta degli incunaboli si arricchisce con la pubblicazione di quest'antologia di sette scritti composti negli ultimi decenni del Quattrocento, aventi come oggetto l'esaltazione e--soprattutto--la demonizzazione della stampa (novita la cui scoperta si puo porre idealmente in sintonia con un altro cambiamento epocale di cui s'intravede oggi l'inizio, grazie alia diffusione dell'e-book).

Also successful at the Showcase meeting, QUATTROCENTO looks good in the opening Irish Times Amateur Riders' Handicap Chase (1.15), while, after Channel 4's cameras have gone off air, REVE DE SIVOLA can land the concluding Steel Plate And Sections Novices' Chase (4.05).

RoddyOwenjoint owner wit h Paul Fullager of Quattrocento, trained by Peter Bowen at Haverfordwest, and which won the amateur riders' race at Cheltenham last Friday had plenty to smile about as he backed the horse during the morning of the race at odds of 25-1, 20-1 and 18-1.Well ridden by leading Irish amateur rider Michael Fogarty, the French-bred Quattrocento was returned at odds of 14-1.

Silver Prelude (3.40 Lingfield, nap), Master Of The Hall (2.05 Newbury, nb), Wymott (1.40 Newcastle), Quattrocento (2.15 Newcastle).

NAOMI MATTHEW: 1.10 Quwetwo (nb), 1.40 Wymott, 2.15 Quattrocento, 2.50 Toulouse Express, 3.25 Instant Shot, 4.00 Bogside Theatre