{"title":"Emanuele Lugli","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEmanuele Lugli\u003c\/strong\u003e explores intricate dynamics of Renaissance culture with a focus on the intersection of desire, art, and societal norms. His works delve into historical narratives that reveal the subtle violences and tensions underlying cultural expressions in early modern Florence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect a rich analysis of historical and artistic themes, where measurement, representation, and the pursuit of uniformity are thoughtfully examined. Lugli's scholarship invites reflection on the complexities of human experience through the lens of \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHistory\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-making-of-measure-and-the-promise-of-sameness-by-emanuele-lugli-9780226820002","title":"The Making of Measure and the Promise of Sameness","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Making of Measure and the Promise of Sameness\u003c\/em\u003e is an interdisciplinary history of standardised measurements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMeasurement is all around us—from the circumference of a pizza to the square footage of an apartment, from the length of a newborn baby to the number of miles between neighbouring towns. Whether inches or miles, centimetres or kilometres, measures of distance stand at the very foundation of everything we do, so much so that we take them for granted. Yet, this has not always been the case.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book reaches back to medieval Italy to speak of a time when measurements were displayed in the open, showing how such a deceptively simple innovation triggered a chain of cultural transformations whose consequences are visible today on a global scale. Drawing from literary works and frescoes, architectural surveys, and legal compilations, Emanuele Lugli offers a history of material practices widely overlooked by historians. He argues that the public display of measurements in Italy’s newly formed city republics not only laid the foundation for now centuries-old practices of making, but also helped to legitimise local governments and shore up church power, buttressing fantasies of exactitude and certainty that linger to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis ambitious, truly interdisciplinary book explains how measurements, rather than being mere descriptors of the real, themselves work as powerful molds of ideas, affecting our notions of what we consider similar, accurate, and truthful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000793776364,"sku":"9780226820002","price":66.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/20428303482268.jpg?v=1763305503"},{"product_id":"knots-or-the-violence-of-desire-in-renaissance-florence-by-emanuele-lugli-9780226822518","title":"Knots, or the Violence of Desire in Renaissance Florence","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn interdisciplinary study of hair through the art, philosophy, and science of fifteenth-century Florence.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this innovative cultural history, hair is the portal through which Emanuele Lugli accesses the cultural production of Lorenzo il Magnifico’s Florence. Lugli reflects on the ways writers, doctors, and artists expressed religious prejudices, health beliefs, and gender and class subjugation through alluring works of art, in medical and political writings, and in poetry. He considers what may have compelled Sandro Botticelli, the young Leonardo da Vinci, and dozens of their contemporaries to obsess over braids, knots, and hairdos by examining their engagement with scientific, philosophical, and theological practices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy studying hundreds of fifteenth-century documents that engage with hair, Lugli foregrounds hair’s association to death and gathers insights about human life at a time when Renaissance thinkers redefined what it meant to be human and to be alive. Lugli uncovers overlooked perceptions of hair when it came to be identified as a potential vector for liberating culture, and he corrects a centuries-old prejudice that sees hair as a trivial subject, relegated to passing fashion or the decorative. He shows hair, instead, to be at the heart of Florentine culture, whose inherent violence Lugli reveals by prompting questions about the entanglement of politics and desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461128995052,"sku":"9780226822518","price":66.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780226822518-knots-or-the-violence-of-desire-in-renaissance-florence.jpg?v=1774958579"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/emanuele-lugli.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}