Italy in the age of the renaissance

Italy in the Age of the Renaissance

The twelve essays in this volume, each written by a leading specialist, present an accessible and comprehensive introduction to Italian Renaissance so

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Music in the Age of the Renaissance

A richly detailed portrait of the music and surrounding culture in one of history's most creative eras.

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Murder in Renaissance Italy

This invaluable collection explores the many faces of murder and its cultural presences across the Italian peninsula in the Renaissance. Dealing with

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Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

This title was Burckhardt's major contribution to cultural history and was first published in 1860. The work covers the period from the birth of Dante

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Renaissance in Italy

This book offers a rich and exciting new way of thinking about the Italian Renaissance. Guido Ruggiero's work is based on archival research and new in

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Singing to the Lyre in Renaissance Italy

Vernacular poetry in Renaissance Italy was typically created and disseminated by improvising singer-poets. This is the first comprehensive study of ca

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Renaissance Magic and the Return of the Golden Age

For all their pride in seeing this world clearly, the thinkers and artists of the English Renaissance were also fascinated by magic and the occult. Th

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Short History of Renaissance Italy

The fifteen chapters move briskly from the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West through the growth of the Italian city-states, where, in the crucible

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Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy

James Hankins offers the first full-length study of Francesco PatriziÂ’s life and thought. A key but largely forgotten Renaissance thinker, Patrizi wr

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Cosmopolitan Italy in the Age of Nations

The essays in this volume make the case that the age of nations had a profound impact on Italian history and contributed to the creation of an Italian

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Pontormo and the Art of Devotion in Renaissance Italy

Through its examination of the religious paintings by Pontormo, this book offers a new way to understand the fraught relationship between artistic inn

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Oxford History of the Renaissance

The story of the 'long Renaissance' for a new generation—from Giotto and Dante in thirteenth-century Italy, to the English literary Renaissance in th

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Making the Renaissance Man

An investigation of representations and ideals of manhood in the courts of fifteenth-century Italy.

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Art in Renaissance Italy 1350-1500

The Italian Renaissance is a pivotal episode in the history of Western culture. This book discusses a range of works from across Italy, examines the i

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Being a Jesuit in Renaissance Italy

Founded in 1540, the Society of Jesus was instantly popular, attracting thousands of candidates in its first century. Camilla Russell looks to the liv

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Imagery and Politics of Sexual Violence in Early Renaissance Italy

This book is the first comprehensive study of rape in Italian painting at the dawn of the Renaissance. It examines depictions of sexual violence in re

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Italy

This new edition of Italy: A Short History presents a clear and concise account of the principal developments in Italian history from the Ice Age to t

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Renaissance Cities

A luxurious and definitive exploration of how and why the Renaissance flourished in Italy for two centuries.

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Oxford Illustrated History of the Renaissance

The story of the 'long Renaissance' for a new generation from Giotto and Dante in thirteenth-century Italy to the English literary Renaissance in the

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Italian Renaissance

The Renaissance (14th-17th C) was a pivotal period in the development of Western art, and Italy was its crucible. With fascinating insights and lush r

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Angelica's Book and the World of Reading in Late Renaissance Italy

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Tuscany in the Age of Empire

The Renaissance was also the beginning of the Age of Empires, yet the Grand Duchy of Tuscany failed to secure overseas colonies. How did Tuscany retai

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Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici and the Crisis of Renaissance Italy

This life of Lorenzo the Magnificent's eldest son provides a portrait of an aspiring Renaissance ruler, and explains the crisis in Italy that caused h

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Avalon Hill desková hra Axis a Allies WWI 1914 english

Experience Axis a Allies in the setting of World War I with the familiar, time-tested A a A rules adapted to let players control the armies of 1914.The Central Powers of Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire are aligned against the great alliance of France, the British Empire, the Russian Empire, Italy and the United States on a new game board ext...

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Out of Italy

The Italian Renaissance in Europe and beyond

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History of the Jews in Early Modern Italy

Challenging traditional historiographical approaches, this book offers a new history of Italian Jews in the Early Modern age.

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The Golden Age - The Spanish Empire of Charles V - Thomas Hugh

Anotace: Beginning with the return of the remnants of Magellan`s circumnavigation in 1522 and ending with Charles` death in 1558, the author brings to life the periods of the Renaissance, revealing how the Spaniards were able to conquer Guatemala, Yucatan, Columbia, Venezuela, Peru and Chile and why Cabeza de Vaca walked from Florida to Mexico.

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Artistic Theory in Italy 1450-1600

This work seeks to broaden the comprehension of the student of Italian Renaissance painting by concentrating not on the works of art themselves, but o

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Field of Glory II: Age of Belisarius

Age of Belisarius expands Field of Glory II forwards from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD to 600 AD, a period when the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) army transformed itself from a mainly infantry force to a cavalry army in response to the threats it faced. You can be part of the flowering of the new “barbarian” kingdoms that replaced the Roman Empir...

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Parks of the 21st Century

We are in the midst of a worldwide golden age of park creation, and featured here are powerfully telling examples at the forefront of this renaissance

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Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition

Celebrating its first year of delighting millions of global players, the award-winning and best-selling strategy franchise continues with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition, putting you at the center of even more epic historical battles that shaped the world. Featuring both familiar and innovative new ways to expand your empire in vast landscapes with stunning 4K visu...

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Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition (PC)

Celebrating its first year of delighting millions of global players, the award-winning and best-selling strategy franchise continues with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition, putting you at the center of even more epic historical battles that shaped the world.Featuring both familiar and innovative new ways to expand your empire in vast landscapes with stunning 4K visua...

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Field of Glory II: Age of Belisarius (PC)

Age of Belisarius expands Field of Glory II forwards from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD to 600 AD, a period when the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) army transformed itself from a mainly infantry force to a cavalry army in response to the threats it faced.You can be part of the flowering of the new “barbarian” kingdoms that replaced the Roma...

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Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy

An introduction to Italian painting in the 15th century, and the social history behind it. The book covers the structure of the picture trade and its economic basis through contracts, letters and accounts. The author also illustrates how art history can be used to give insights into social history, by showing how the visual skills and activities of daily life can be relat...

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The Universe In A Nutshell - Stephen W. Hawking

Anotace: Stephen Hawking`s A Brief History of Time was a publishing phenomenon. Translated into thirty languages, it has sold over nine million copies worldwide. It continues to captivate and inspire new readers every year. When it was first published in 1988 the ideas discussed in it were at the cutting edge of what was then known about the universe. In the intervening ...

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British Museum: Find Tom in Time, Michelangelo´s Italy - Burke Fatti (Kathi)

Anotace: A brilliantly fun search-and-find puzzle book for children from 6+, developed in consultation with the British Museum.Tom`s not only lost in time, he`s lost his cat, too! Can you find Tom and his naughty cat, Digby, across the pages? Packed with detailed artwork, fascinating renaissance Florence facts and over 100 other things to find - from an apprentice workin...

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British Museum: Find Tom in Time, Michelangelo´s Italy - Fatti (Kathi) Burke

<p>A brilliantly fun search-and-find puzzle book for children from 6+, developed in consultation with the British Museum. Tom's not only lost in time, he's lost his cat, too! Can you find Tom and his naughty cat, Digby, across the pages? Packed with detailed artwork, fascinating renaissance Florence facts and over 100 other things to find - from an apprentice worki...

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Rule the Waves 3

Build Your Navy, from pre-Dreadnoughts to Aircraft Carriers and Missile Cruisers! Rule the Waves 3 is a simulation of naval ship design and construction, fleet management and naval warfare from 1890 to 1970 and will place you in the role of 'Grand Admiral' of a navy from the time when steam and iron dominated warship design up to the missile age. Rule the Waves 3 will let...

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Supernatural : Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind - Hancock Graham

Anotace: "Supernatural: of or relating to things that cannot be explained according to natural laws."Less than 50,000 years ago mankind had no art, no religion, no sophisticated symbolism, no innovative thinking. Then, in a dramatic and electrifying change, described by scientists as "the greatest riddle in human history", all the skills and qualities that we value most ...

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Rule the Waves 3 (PC)

Build Your Navy, from pre-Dreadnoughts to Aircraft Carriers and Missile Cruisers!Rule the Waves 3 is a simulation of naval ship design and construction, fleet management and naval warfare from 1890 to 1970 and will place you in the role of 'Grand Admiral' of a navy from the time when steam and iron dominated warship design up to the missile age. Rule the Waves 3...

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In Fortune's Theater

This innovative cultural history of financial risk-taking in Renaissance Italy explores the rich interchanges between mercantile and intellectual cult

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Rome in Triumph, Volume 1

Biondo Flavio was a pioneering figure in the Renaissance discovery of antiquity and popularized the term Middle Age to describe the period between the

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The Marriage Portrait - Maggie O’Farrellová

<p>The author of Hamnet—New York Times best seller and National Book Critics Circle Award winner—brings the world of Renaissance Italy to jewel-bright life in this unforgettable fictional portrait of the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici as she makes her way in a troubled court. "O’Farrell pulls out little threads of historical detail to weave this...

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Eat, Pray, Love: 'One Woman''s Search for Everything Across Italy, India & Indonesia' (0747589356)

Kniha - autor Elizabeth Gilbert, 350 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time...

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Cold War American Exhibitions of Italian Art and Design

Enriching the existing scholarship on this important exhibition, Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today (1950-53), this book shows the dynamic

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Empire Of Things - Trentmann Frank

Anotace: Magnificent ... groundbreaking ... a triumph` Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads`A masterpiece, a delight to read ... a rare and beautiful thing` Gerard DeGroot, The TimesWhat we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spending, we are treated more as consumers than workers, and even public services are presented...

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Empire Of Things - Frank Trentmann

<p>Magnificent ... groundbreaking ... a triumph' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'A masterpiece, a delight to read ... a rare and beautiful thing' Gerard DeGroot, The TimesWhat we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spending, we are treated more as consumers than workers, and even public services are presented ...

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American Barber in Prague - Kraig Casebier

<p>Growing up in Kentucky, Kraig Casebier never really imagined a career other than barbering. Hair care has a long tradition in his family. However, fate did not grant him a stable career tied to one place. Health problems, crazy ideas and a love of travel - all of this eventually mixed into a remarkable, adventurous story that took him from the American South to t...

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Listri. Cabinet of Curiosities - Antonio Paolucci

<p>Cabinets of curiosities fascinated people of the 16th and 17th centuries. From crocodiles, minerals, and corals to paintings, ivory trophies, measuring instruments, and incredible automata, it was a glimpse into a world full of natural wonders and treasures that aimed to reflect the order of the universe. This magnificent volume takes us through the world’s most ...

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Communication and Conflict

The first overall study of diplomacy in Early Renaissance Italy for 60 years, explaining how Italian diplomacy came to play such a central role in the

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Revenger's Tragedy

The Revenger's Tragedy is a famous Elizabethan tragedy set in a dissolute Renaissance court in Italy, a maelstrom of vice and intrigue. In this new ed

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Maiolica Before Raphael

Maiolica before the age of Raphael examines the origin of Italian maiolica and its evolution from c. 1350 up until 1500, a period which engendered some of the most rapid and exciting innovations in all ceramic art, before maiolica's better known heyday in the High Renaissance.

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Michelangelo - Štěpán Neuwirth

<p>Italian-born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475–1564) was a tormented, prodigiously talented, and God-fearing Renaissance man. His manifold achievements in painting, sculpture, architecture, poetry, and engineering combined body, spirit, and God into visionary masterpieces that changed art history forever. Famed biographer Giorgio Vasari considered ...

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Sir Philip Sidney (Oxford World´s Classics New Edition) - Sidney Philip

Anotace: This authoritative edition brings together a unique combination of Sidney`s poetry and prose--all the major writing, complemented by letters and elegies--that reveals the essence of his work and thinking. Born in 1554, Sir Philip Sidney was hailed as the perfect Renaissance patron, soldier, lover, and courtier, but it was only after his untimely death at the ag...

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Women I Think About at Night

In The Women I Think About at Night, Mia Kankimäki blends travelogue, memoir, and biography as she recounts her enchanting travels in Japan, Kenya, and Italy while retracing the steps of ten remarkable female pioneers from history. What can a forty-something childless woman do? Bored with her life and feeling stuck, Mia Kankimäki leaves her job, sells her apartment, and d...

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Frankenstein - Shelley Mary

Anotace: A stunning new clothbound edition of Mary Shelley`s infamous work of horror fiction, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the designObsessed by creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material ...

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Frankenstein

Nominated as one of America s best-loved novels by PBS s The Great American ReadA stunning new clothbound edition of Mary Shelley's infamous work of horror fiction, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design Obsessed by creating...

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Youth - Paolo Sorrentino

<p>The novelisation of Youth (La Giovinezza) - an original film by Paolo Sorrentino, starring Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel and Rachel Weisz In a luxury spa hotel in the Swiss Alps, octogenarian friends Fred Ballinger and Mick Boyle look back on their eventful and successful lives as composer and film director, surrounded by a host of colourful and eccentric fellow g...

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