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Alessandra Scala
Alessandra Scala (1475–1506) was a Florentine humanist and scholar of Latin and Greek in the late fifteenth century. Biography Alessandra Scala was the fifth daughter of the chancellor of Florence at the time, Bartolomeo Scala, and was born in 1475. Scala was taught in part by her father and Angelo Poliziano, and also studied Ancient Greek under Janus Lascaris and Demetrios Chalkokondyles. In 1493, Scala participated in a Florentine performance of Sophocles's ''Electra'' as Electra, and was highly praised for her acting in a letter from Poliziano to Cassandra Fedele. She also corresponded with Fedele in Latin about marriage and scholarship between 1492 and 1493, and replied to love poems written in Greek that Poliziano sent her around 1493. Poliziano's praise of Scala's dramatic performance and his poetry addressed to her have been interpreted differently by scholars. While Pesenti views Poliziano as expressing genuine if unrealizable affection, more recently Feng and Jardine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florence
Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico anno 2013, datISTAT/ref> Florence was a centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of that era. It is considered by many academics to have been the birthplace of the Renaissance, becoming a major artistic, cultural, commercial, political, economic and financial center. During this time, Florence rose to a position of enormous influence in Italy, Europe, and beyond. Its turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful Medici family and numerous religious and republican revolutions. From 1865 to 1871 the city served as the capital of the Kingdom of Italy (established in 1861). The Florentine dialect forms the base of Standard Italian and it became the language of culture throughout Ital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
