FERRARA

fār-räˈrä, city (1991 pop. 138,015), capital of Ferrara prov., in Emilia-Romagna, N Italy. It is a rich industrial and agricultural center, located on a low-lying, marshy plain that has much reclaimed land. Manufactures include chemicals, machinery, food products, metals, and refined petroleum. In the early 13th cent. the Este family founded in Ferrara a powerful principality, and during the Renaissance commerce, learning, printing, and the arts flourished about the brilliant court. The 15th-century painters Cossa and Tura and the 16th-century writers Tosso and Ariosto lived in Ferrara, and the religious reformer Savonarola was born there (1452). The city was incorporated into the Papal States in 1558. Among Ferrara's many noteworthy buildings are Este castle (14th cent.), the cathedral (begun 1135), Schifanoia palace (14th–15th cent.), and the Palazzo del Diamanti (15th–16th cent.). The city has a university (founded 1391).

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Phaethon's Children: The Este Court and Its Culture in Early Modern Ferrara
Book by Dennis Looney, Deanna Shemek; Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005
Subjects: Este Family, Ferrara (Italy)--Civilization, Ferrara (Italy)--Intellectual Life, Ferrara (Italy)--Politics And Government, Renaissance--Italy--Ferrara
...Court and Its Culture in Early Modern Ferrara MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE TEXTS AND STUDIES...Court and Its Culture in Early Modern Ferrara edited by Dennis Looney and Deanna...court and its culture in early modern Ferrara / edited by Dennis Looney and Deanna...
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Therapeutic Ways with Words
Book by Kathleen Warden Ferrara; Oxford University Press, 1994
Subjects: Discourse Analysis, Psycholinguistics, Psychotherapists--Language, Psychotherapy Patients--Language
...Ways with Words KATHLEEN WARDEN FERRARA New York Oxford OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS...Copyright 1994 by Kathleen Warden Ferrara Published by Oxford University Press...Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ferrara, Kathleen Warden Therapeutic ways with...
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The Private Correspondence of Nicolo Machiavelli
Book by Orestes Ferrara; Johns Hopkins Press, 1929
Subjects: Machiavelli, Niccolao--1469-1527
...PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE OF NICOLO MACHIAVELLI BY ORESTES FERRARA, LL. D. Doctor of Jurisprudence, University of Naples...conquered Milan and he was on the point of subduing the Duke of Ferrara; he would have been successful in this last enterprise if...
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The Life and Times of Lucrezia Borgia
Book by Maria Bellonci, Bernard Wall, Barbara Wall; Harcourt Brace, 1953
Subjects: Borgia, Lucrezia--1480-1519, Italy--History--1492-1559
...XI War over Ferrara 279...Modena and correspondent of the Duke of Ferrara, on August 31, 'is already showing himself...who belonged to the ducal house of Ferrara, added her own almost ferocious ambitions...
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Dona Gracia of the House of Nasi
Book by Cecil Roth; Jewish Publication Society, 1977
Subjects: Jews--History--70-, Nasi, Gracia--Ca. 1510-1569
...50 IV. FERRARA 65...4. The Sephardi Synagogue at Ferrara 66 Balletti, Gli...5. Duke Ercole II of Ferrara 67 6...
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journal articles on: Ferrara  - 522 results

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Genre and Closure in the Seven Versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers: Finney ('54, '55, '78), Siegel ('56, '56), Kaufman ('78), and Ferrara ('93)
Journal article by Robert Shelton; West Virginia University Philological Papers, 2002
Subjects: Ferrara, Abel--Criticism and interpretation, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Motion picture)--Criticism and interpretation, Science fiction films--Criticism and interpretation, Science fiction movies--Criticism and interpretation
...78), Siegel (56, 56), Kaufman (78), and Ferrara (93). by Robert Shelton...and message (and costume). Lastly, Abel Ferrara sets his 1993 re-remake in the isolated...rural Alabama, just alter the Gulf War. Ferraras defarniliarizing shifts introduce the...
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Cosme Tura: The Life and Art of a Painter in Estense Ferrara
Journal article by Martha Levine Dunkelman; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 54, 2001
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Cosme Tura: The Life and Art of a Painter in Estense Ferrara (Book)--Reviews, The Gualenghi-d'Este Hours: Art and Devotion in Renaissance Ferrara (Book)--Reviews
...The Life and Art of a Painter in Estense Ferrara by MARTHA LEVINE DUNKELMAN...The Life and Art of a Painter in Estense Ferrara Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000. xvii...Hours: Art and Devotion in Renaissance Ferrara Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2000...
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Phaethon's Children: The Este Court and Its Culture in Early Modern Ferrara
Journal article by James Amelang; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 59, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Phaethon's Children: The Este Court and Its Culture in Early Modern Ferrara (Book)--Book reviews
...Court and Its Culture in Early Modern Ferrara. by James Amelang Dennis Looney...Court and Its Culture in Early Modern Ferrara. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies...vehicle by crashing into the Po River near Ferrara. This provided local humanists and artists...
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Creating Canons in Fifteenth-Century Ferrara: Angelo Decembrio's De Politia Litteraria, 1.10*
Journal article by Christopher S. Celenza; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 57, 2004
Subjects: European literature--Criticism and interpretation, European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600, Renaissance literature--Criticism and interpretation
Creating Canons in Fifteenth-Century Ferrara: Angelo Decembrios De Politia Litteraria...can see in the case of Leonello dEstes Ferrara, the civic culture of the book as represented...culture appeared vibrant and interlinked in Ferrara in the 1440s, and Prince Leonello seemed...
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The Este Monuments and Urban Development in Renaissance Ferrara
Journal article by Charles Burroughs; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 52, 1999
Subjects: Books--Reviews
...Monuments and Urban Development in Renaissance Ferrara by Charles Burroughs Charles...urbanism, the "Herculean Addition" of Ferrara, but only in terms of longer-term processes...account of the evolution of Renaissance Ferrara is based on a firm command of archival...
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Jackie Ferrara
Magazine article by Kirby Gookin; Artforum International, Vol. 33, September 1994
Subjects: Ferrara, Jackie--Exhibitions, Sculpture, Abstract--Exhibitions
Jackie Ferrara by Kirby Gookin MICHAEL...exhibition, "Wallworks Tableworks," Jackie Ferrara presented small-scale, rationalist wooden...federal or corporate funding, however, Ferraras works enable an interaction with the spectator...
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An Observer of Charms & Hurts: Dosso of Ferrara
Magazine article by Creighton Gilbert; New Criterion, Vol. 17, April 1999
Subjects: Art, Renaissance--Exhibitions, Landscape painting--Exhibitions, Luteri, Giovanni--Exhibitions, Painting, Renaissance--Exhibitions
...An observer of charms hurts: Dosso of Ferrara by Creighton Gilbert The...Dosso Dossi, Court Painter in Renaissance Ferrara" comes as a delightful surprise.(1) It...distant heroes. So the Galleria dArte in Ferrara and the Getty worked up this show with...
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The Last Moralist
Magazine article by Christopher Sharrett; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 126, November 1997
Subjects: Ferrara, Abel--Criticism and interpretation, Filmmakers--Criticism and interpretation, Movie directors--Criticism and interpretation, Movie producers (Persons)--Criticism and interpretation
...picture, "The Funeral," director Abel Ferrara has established himself as something of...moviemaker with a distinct moral vision. Ferrara has little interest in making movies about...his super-hip, acid New York pedigree, Ferraras work sustains a moral and, to some, a...
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Abject Lesson
Magazine article by Mark Van De Walle; Artforum International, Vol. 34, October 1995
Subjects: Ferrara, Abel--Works, Filmmakers--Works, Vampires--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...why now is sort of the perfect moment for Abel Ferrara to have made The Addiction. Ferrara has always been a proponent of affirmative abjection...Addiction locates itself squarely on the cusp that Ferrara flims always occupy, hovering somewhere between...
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Malice toward Nuns
Magazine article by Manohla Dargis; Artforum International, Vol. 31, March 1993
Subjects: Ferrara, Abel--Works, Filmmakers--Works, Motion pictures--Moral and ethical aspects
...nuns by Manohla Dargis Abel Ferrara takes no prisoners--not in conversation...usually associated with the cheesy material Ferrara tends to chase, whether its serial slashers...the end of Ms. .45, the breakout movie Ferrara cowrote with the films star, Zoe Lund...
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Ferrara-4183532
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), October 15, 2009
Ferrara-4183532. David Ferrara David Ferrara, 66, of Fall Creek, Wis., passed away Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009 at his home. He fought a long, hard battle with grace and dignity after complications from surgery in March 2009. Dave was born Dec...
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Madeleine Payette Ferrara of Sylvan Lake, Mundelein
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 28, 2007
Madeleine Payette Ferrara of Sylvan Lake, Mundelein. A Mass for Madeleine Payette Ferrara will be celebrated at 10 a.m. on her 92nd birthday...Genevieve Connor, and twins, Robert (Deena) Ferrara and Raymond (Mary Ellis) Ferrara; grandmother...
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Westminster's Ferrara Escapes Serious Injury
Newspaper article by John Radtke; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 9, 2007
Westminsters Ferrara Escapes Serious Injury. by John...vision of Warriors junior guard Jenni Ferrara being carried out of St. Edwards gym on...around her in prayer. But on Tuesday night, Ferrara was on the Westminster bench, albeit in...
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Mother Charged in Forcing Abortion
Newspaper article by Joyce Howard Price; The Washington Times, August 3, 2000
Subjects: Ferrara
...trimester of pregnancy. Detective Michelle Ferrara of the Lake Clarke Shores Police Department...maternal grandmother. According to Ms. Ferrara, Brittany wound up at the Aware Woman...abortion for her daughter on Tuesday. Ms. Ferrara, who interviewed Brittany, said the girl...
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Tackling the 'Third Rail'; Reform Social Security, Keep Benefits
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 21, 2005
Subjects: Ferrara, Peter
...facing this reality. Most recently, Peter Ferrara of the Institute for Policy Innovation...spending in world history." Instead, Mr. Ferrara backs a plan that would permanently guarantee...Social Security benefits in perpetuity. Mr. Ferraras plan relies on large influxes of corporate...
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encyclopedia articles on: Ferrara  - 42 results

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Ferrara-Florence, Council Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FERRARA-FLORENCE, COUNCIL OF 1438 45, second part of the 17th...schismatic (see Basel, Council of ). The chief goal at Ferrara was to end the schism of East and West; it was vigorously...years of negotiations, was opened by the papal legate at Ferrara as the legitimate successor of the Council of Basel. The...
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Ferrara
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FERRARA far-ra ra, city (1991 pop. 138,015), capital of Ferrara prov., in Emilia-Romagna, N Italy. It is a rich industrial...In the early 13th cent. the Este family founded in Ferrara a powerful principality, and during the Renaissance commerce...
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Este , Italian Noble Family
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...ta, Italian noble family, rulers of Ferrara (1240 1597) and of Modena (1288 1796...two families contending for supremacy in Ferrara. His grandson, Azzo dEste VI, 1170 1212...Mantua and Verona and fought to obtain Ferrara, but it was left for his son, Azzo dEste...
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Tura, CosmÉ
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Renaissance artist. He was a leading master of the school of Ferrara and court painter to the citys ruling Este family. Often...Annunciation and St. George Slaying the Dragon (cathedral, Ferrara); Christ on the Cross (Milan); St. Jerome (National Gall...
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Ariosto, Ludovico
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...lyric poet. As a youth he was a favorite at the court of Ferrara; later he was in the service of Ippolito I, Cardinal dEste, and from 1517 until his death served Alfonso, duke of Ferrara. He was never properly rewarded by his patrons. While in...
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