Awards

• Commended for 2022 AAIS First Book Prize Awarded by the American Association for Italian Studies 2023 (United States)

Overview

Full Product Details

9781487563448

Table of Contents

Reviews

A Sudden Frenzy is a brilliant study of a form of early Renaissance performance that bridged high and low culture, recitation and instrumental music, sacred and profane, ancient and modern, wild imagination and meticulous crafting. Coleman shows us the 'power of extemporaneity' in a place and time often characterized for its classicism and strict conventions. By doing so, he opens exciting new doors onto humanist thought and practice. - Arielle Saiber, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Bowdoin College James K. Coleman's A Sudden Frenzy exposes the often surprising commonalities between classical scholarship and 'popular' culture in the Italian Renaissance. Coleman attenuates the long-perceived boundary between the written texts of humanist scholars such as Poggio Bracciolini and Angelo Poliziano and the numerous oral and improvised performances that flanked them. The role of 'inspiration' emerges forcefully in these chapters as far more than a commonplace or metaphor for composition. - Walter Stephens, Charles S. Singleton Professor of Italian Studies, Johns Hopkins University

""James K. Coleman's A Sudden Frenzy exposes the often surprising commonalities between classical scholarship and 'popular' culture in the Italian Renaissance. Coleman attenuates the long-perceived boundary between the written texts of humanist scholars such as Poggio Bracciolini and Angelo Poliziano and the numerous oral and improvised performances that flanked them. The role of 'inspiration' emerges forcefully in these chapters as far more than a commonplace or metaphor for composition."" --Walter Stephens, Charles S. Singleton Professor of Italian Studies, Johns Hopkins University "" A Sudden Frenzy is a brilliant study of a form of early Renaissance performance that bridged high and low culture, recitation and instrumental music, sacred and profane, ancient and modern, wild imagination and meticulous crafting. Coleman shows us the 'power of extemporaneity' in a place and time often characterized for its classicism and strict conventions. By doing so, he opens exciting new doors onto humanist thought and practice."" --Arielle Saiber, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Bowdoin College

A Sudden Frenzy is a brilliant study of a form of early Renaissance performance that bridged high and low culture, recitation and instrumental music, sacred and profane, ancient and modern, wild imagination and meticulous crafting. Coleman shows us the 'power of extemporaneity' in a place and time often characterized for its classicism and strict conventions. By doing so, he opens exciting new doors onto humanist thought and practice. - Arielle Saiber, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Bowdoin College James K. Coleman's A Sudden Frenzy exposes the often surprising commonalities between classical scholarship and 'popular' culture in the Italian Renaissance. Coleman attenuates the long-perceived boundary between the written texts of humanist scholars such as Poggio Bracciolini and Angelo Poliziano and the numerous oral and improvised performances that flanked them. The role of 'inspiration' emerges forcefully in these chapters as far more than a commonplace or metaphor for composition. - Walter Stephens, Charles S. Singleton Professor of Italian Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Author Information

James K. Coleman is an assistant professor of Italian at the University of Pittsburgh.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available