Bonner Mitchell
{{Short description|American literary historian}}
Marion Bonner Mitchell (28 November 1926 – 3 October 2014) was an American literary scholar specializing in French and Italian literature of the Renaissance period.
Mitchell was born in Livingston, Texas, on 28 November 1926 to parents Jewel Clarence and Verna Bonner Mitchell. He completed bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Texas at Austin before obtaining a doctorate at Ohio State University. During his studies, Mitchell received the Fulbright Scholarship in Paris. He returned to the city for military service as a railway station interpreter during the Korean War. Mitchell joined the University of Missouri faculty in 1958, was later elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and upon retirement, was granted emeritus status. He died on 3 October 2014.{{cite news |title=Marion Bonner Mitchell, Nov. 28, 1926 — Oct. 3, 2014 |url=https://www.columbiamissourian.com/obituaries/family_obituary/marion-bonner-mitchell-nov-28-1926-oct-3-2014/article_daca8b3b-0a7e-5b1f-8a33-9f4d93b4872b.html |access-date=7 July 2022 |work=Columbia Missourian |date=9 October 2014}}{{cite news |last1=Germanetti |first1=Scott |title=Retired MU professor Marion Bonner Mitchell loved traveling, teaching |url=https://www.columbiamissourian.com/obituaries/missourian_obituary/retired-mu-professor-marion-bonner-mitchell-loved-traveling-teaching/article_b9afe1ed-9f95-5610-9625-3a0b921bb3b8.html |access-date=7 July 2022 |work=Columbia Missourian |date=9 October 2014}}
Selected publications
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Minor |editor1-first=Andrew C. |editor2-last=Mitchell |editor2-first=Bonner |title=Renaissance Entertainment: Festivities for the Marriage of Cosimo I, Duke of Florence in 1539 |date=1968 |publisher=University of Missouri Press |isbn=9780826285225}}Reviews of Renaissance Entertainment include:
- {{cite journal |last1=Kaufmann |first1=Henry W. |title=Review: A Renaissance Entertainment [:] Festivities for the Marriage of Cosimo I, Duke of Florence, in 1539 by Andrew C. Minor, Bonner Mitchell |journal=Journal of the American Musicological Society |date=1969 |volume=22 |issue=3 |doi=10.2307/830751|jstor=830751 }}
- {{cite journal |last1=Corrigan |first1=Beatrice |title="A Renaissance Entertainment: Festivities for the Marriage of Cosimo I, Duke of Florence, in 1539", eds. Andrew C. Minor and Bonner Mitchell (Book Review) |journal=Italica |date=1970 |volume=47 |issue=4 |doi=10.2307/478461 |id={{ProQuest|1296525517}} |jstor=478461}}
- {{cite book |last1=Mitchell |first1=Bonner |url=https://archive.org/details/romeinhighrenais00mitc |title=Rome in the High Renaissance: The Age of Leo X |date=1973 |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |isbn=9780806110523}}Reviews of Rome in the High Renaissance include:
- {{cite journal|author1-link=Beatrice Corrigan |last1=Corrigan |first1=Beatrice |title=Reviewed Work: Rome in the High Renaissance: The Age of Leo X by Bonner Mitchell |journal=Italica |date=1975 |volume=52 |issue=1 |doi=10.2307/478415 |jstor=478415 |id={{ProQuest|1296564784}}}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Jensen |first1=De Lamar |title=Rome in the High Renaissance: The Age of Leo X Mitchell, Bonner: (The Centers of Civilization Series, Vol. 33): Norman: The University of Oklahoma Press, 166 pp., Publication Date: September 10, 1973 |journal=History: Reviews of New Books |date=1974 |volume=2 |issue=3 |page=80 |doi=10.1080/03612759.1974.9947188}}
- {{cite journal |last1=O'Malley |first1=John W. |title=Rome in the High Renaissance. The Age of Leo X. By Bonner Mitchell. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1973. xi + 171 pp. $3.50. |journal=Church History |date=June 1974 |volume=43 |issue=2 |pages=270–271 |doi=10.2307/3163960|jstor=3163960 |s2cid=162705118 }}
- {{cite book |last1=Mitchell |first1=Bonner |date=1986 |title=The Majesty Of The State: Triumphal Progresses Of Foreign Sovereigns In Renaissance Italy, 1494 1600 |publisher=Olschki |isbn=9788822234278 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/database/IBR/entry/ibr.ID361957263/html}}Reviews of The Majesty Of The State include:
- {{cite journal |last1=Trexler |first1=Richard C. |title=BONNER MITCHELL: "The Majesty of the State: Triumphal Progresses of Foreign Sovereigns in Renaissance Italy (1494-1600)" (Book Review) |journal=Italica |date=1988 |volume=65 |issue=3 |doi=10.2307/478584 |jstor=478584 |id={{ProQuest|1296542212}}}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Rosenberg |first1=Charles M. |title=Bonner Mitchell. The Majesty of the State. Triumphal Progresses of Foreign Sovereigns in Renaissance Italy (1494-1600). (Biblioteca dell'Archivum Romanicum. Series I. Storia, Letteratura, Paleografia, vol. 203.) Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1986. 8 pls. + viii + 240 pp. |journal=Renaissance Quarterly |date=1988 |volume=41 |issue=4 |pages=719–721 |doi=10.2307/2861893|jstor=2861893 |s2cid=163569435 }}
- {{cite book |last1=Mitchell |first1=Bonner |title=1598: A Year of Pageantry in Late Renaissance Ferrara |date=1990 |publisher=Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies |isbn=9780866980807}} Reviews of 1598: A Year of Pageantry in Late Renaissance Ferrara include:
- {{cite journal |last1=Branciforte |first1=Suzanne |title=Review: 1598: A Year of Pageantry in Late Renaissance Ferrara |journal=Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies |date=1994 |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=164–165 |doi=10.1177/001458589402800124|s2cid=163834802 }}
- {{cite journal |last1=Stinger |first1=Charles L. |title=MITCHELL, BONNER, ed.: "1598: A Year of Pageantry in Late Renaissance Ferrara" (Book Review) |journal=Italica |date=1991 |volume=68 |issue=4 |pages=504–505 |doi=10.2307/479350 |jstor=479350 |id={{ProQuest|1296610740}}}}
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