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Caterina Cornaro – Last Queen of Cyprus and Daughter of Venice / Ultima regina di Cipro e figlia di Venezia Herausgegeben von Candida Syndikus und Sabine Rogge Anlässlich des 500. Todestages von Caterina Cornaro, Venezia- nerin und letzte Königin Zyperns, fand im September 2010 in Venedig eine internationale Tagung statt, die das Leben und Wirken dieser Königin sowie das facettenreiche Beziehungs- geflecht zwischen Venedig und Zypern im 15. und 16. Jahrhun- dert zum Thema hatte – darüber hinaus auch die Rezeption der Biographie Caterina Cornaros im 19. Jahrhundert. Der Band enthält Tagungsbeiträge von 17 renommierten Wissen- schaftlern verschiedener Fachdisziplinen (u.a. Kunstgeschichte, Geschichte, Romanistik, Musikwissenschaft). Schriften des Instituts für Interdisziplinäre Zypern-Studien, Band 9 Waxmann Verlag Münster 2013 Ca. 400 Seiten Text inkl. zahlreicher Schwarzweiß- Caterina Cornaro im Kreise ihres Hofstaates auf Abbildungen und ca. 30 Tafeln mit Farbabbildungen Gentile Bellinis Gemälde „Das Wunder der Ladenpreis voraussichtlich 49,90 € Kreuzreliquie am Ponte San Lorenzo“ (1500), Venedig, Gallerie dell‘Accademia (Detail) Inhalt • Monica Molteni, Per l’iconografia cinquecentesca di Caterina Cornaro • Candida Syndikus, Tra autenticità storica e invenzione romantica. L’immagine di Caterina Cornaro nella tradizione artistica e storico-artistica dell’Otto e Novecento • Martin Gaier, Falconetto – Palladio – Contin. Tentativi di erigere un monumento alla regina nella Repubblica di Venezia • Ursula Schädler-Saub, Indagini conoscitive per il restauro del Barco di Caterina Cornaro • Lina Bolzoni, Gli Asolani di Pietro Bembo: Un ritratto doppio della corte, dell’amore, della poesia • Rotraud von Kulessa, Gli Asolani di Pietro Bembo: Pratiche sociali e letterarie alle corte di Caterina Cornaro • Tobias Leuker, La Venere di casa Cornelia. Giovanni d’Arezzo e le sue poesie per Caterina Cornaro • Daria Perocco, Caterina e i suoi contemporanei. Annotazioni sulla presenza di Caterina Cornaro in testi a lei coevi • Benjamin Arbel, A Fresh Look at the Venetian Protectorate of Cyprus (1474–89) • Gilles Grivaud, Un règne sans fastes – Catherine Cornaro à travers les sources produites à Chypre • Catherine Otten-Froux, Les Vénitiens à Famagouste au temps de la domination génoise sur la ville • Chryssa Maltezou, Le donzelle cipriote di Caterina Cornaro dopo il ritorno della regina a Venezia • Tassos Papacostas, An Exceptional Structure in a Conventional Setting: Preliminary Observations about the Katholikon of Saint Neophytos (Paphos, Cyprus) • Lorenzo Calvelli, “[…] ma oggi dalli indivoti habitatori del paese se ne fa istalla d’asini et di porci”. L’uso dell’antico a Cipro ai tempi di Caterina Cornaro • D. Michael Metcalf, Revalidation of the currency in Venetian Cyprus.The curious episode of countermarking • Arnold Jacobshagen, Staging the Queen – French grand opéra and five operatic portraits of Caterina Cornaro • Angel Nicolaou-Konnari, Melodramatic Perceptions of History: Caterina Cornaro Goes to the Opera .

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