Table of Contents

1 Defining the Place of Academies in Florentine Culture and Politics 2 Pro- and anti-Medici? Political Ambivalence and Social Integration in the Accademia degli Alterati (Florence, 1569–c. 1625) 3 Accademie senesi: tramonto e alba di una respublica litteraria 4 Reforming Theatre in Farnese Parma: The Case of the Accademia degli Innominati (1574–1608) 5 The Accademia della Fucina: Culture and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Messina 6 The Accademia della Virtu and Religious Dissent 7 A Ghost Academy between Venice and Brescia: Philosophical Scepticism and Religious Heterodoxy in the Accademia dei Dubbiosi 8 Between Church, University and Academies: Paolo Beni in Padua, 1599–1623 9 Members, Muses, Mascots: Women and Italian Academies 10 The Accademia di San Luca between Educational and Religious Reform 11 ‘Nec longum tempus’: l’Accademia dei Gelati tra xvi e xvii secolo (1588–1614) 12 Italian Academies and their ‘Facebooks’ 13 Accademia come palestra e come tribuna: Girolamo Ruscelli sdegnato, ardente, dubbioso, fratteggiano 14 L ’Accademia Palermitana degli Accesi: un esempio di petrarchismo nel tardo Cinquecento 15 Da Francesco Petrarca a Giovan Battista Marino: l’Accademia degli Insensati di Perugia (1561–1608) 16 Bronzino e l’Accademia Fiorentina 17 L a poesia funebre all’Accademia Olimpica di Vicenza 18 Dee, imperatrici, cortigiane: la natura della donna nei romanzi degli Incogniti (Venezia)

About the Author

Jane Everson is Professor of Italian Literature in the School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Denis V. Reidy is Head of the Italian and Modern Greek Collections at the British Library.

Lisa Sampson is Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and European Studies at the University of Reading.