Urban Preoccupations. Mental and Material Landscapes

Sommario: Notes on Contributors. Introduction: Urban Preoccupations. Part I: the City and Difference: T. Cave, Locking the Citadel: Duckburg, Augsburg, Utopia; J. Thon, The Public Sphere of the City: Nils Thomasson's Journey of Learning, 1625-1633, Melanchthon and Rembrandt - Rostock and Leiden; R. Wilson, While Rome Burns: Marlowe and the Art of Arson; L. J. Hvinden-Haug, Roros Bergstad: A Private Mining Town in the Seventeenth Century; G. Brown, Urbanization and the Eastern Renaissance: A Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Vision of Constantinople; R. Eriksen, Insula est Melita: Marlowe's Urban Comedy and the Poetics of Predation; P. Sivefors, "This citty-sodoming trade": The Ovidian Authorial Persona in Thomas Nashe's Christ's Tears over Jerusalem. Part 2: The City and Representation: K. Kolrud, The House of Savoy, the Holy Shroud and the City of Turin; F. Forsgren, Topomimesis: The 'Gerusalemme' at San Vivaldo; P. Davies, Representing Siena: An Image of the City as Ex-Voto Model; K. Sellevold, Paraphrasing Utopia for French Readers; U. Langas, City Seductions: Consumer Culture and New Designs of Desire in the 1880s; A. G. Lombnaes, Heaven and Hell: Constant Changes in the Metaphysics of the City. Index of Names.