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  • Pope Paul III and the Cultural Politics of Reform

    1534-1549

    de Bryan Cussen ...
    Series series Renaissance History, Art and Culture
    When Paul III was elected in 1534, hopes arose across Christendom that this pope would at last reform and reunite the Church. During his fifteen-year reign, though, Paul's engagement with reform was complex and contentious. A work of cultural history, this book explores how cultural narratives of honour and tradition, including how honour played out in politics, significantly constrained Pope Paul ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

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  • The Prince

    de Niccol� Machiavelli, Maurizio Viroli ...
    Traducido por Peter Bondanella ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Based upon Machiavelli's first-hand experience as an emissary of the Florentine Republic to the courts of Europe, The Prince analyses the usually violent means by which men seize, retain, and lose political power. This fluent new translation is accompanied by comprehensive notes and an introduction that dispels some of the myths associated with Machiavelli, and considers the true purpose of The ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • Renaissance Woman

    The Life of Vittoria Colonna

    de Ramie Targoff ...
    A biography of Vittoria Colonna, confidante of Michelangelo, scion of one of the most powerful families of her era, and a pivotal figure in the Italian RenaissanceRamie Targoff's Renaissance Woman tells of the most remarkable woman of the Italian Renaissance: Vittoria Colonna, Marchesa of Pescara. Vittoria has long been celebrated by scholars of Michelangelo as the artist's best friend—the two of ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Renaissance Popes: Culture, Power, and the Making of the Borgia Myth

    de Gerard Noel ...
    Between the years of 1447 (Nicholas V) and 1572 (Pius V) Rome was transformed from a ruined Medieval city. The Vatican became the official home of the church and the worlds largest bureaucracy, a spectacular new Basilica of St Peters took 100 years to build and Michelangelo changed the course of art history with his Sistine Chapel. So vast and expensive was this cultural explosion that a new ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • The Universities of the Italian Renaissance

    de Paul F. Grendler ...
    A "magisterial [and] elegantly written" study of Renaissance Italy's remarkable accomplishments in higher education and academic research ( Choice).Winner of the Howard R. Marraro Prize for Italian History from the American Historical AssociationSelected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title of the YearItalian Renaissance universities were Europe's intellectual leaders in humanistic ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Sleepwalking into a New World

    The Emergence of Italian City Communes in the Twelfth Century

    de Chris Wickham ...
    Series series The Lawrence Stone Lectures
    "A fresh look into how communes in the mid-12th century successfully prepared Italian power structures for the cultural significance they would later have." — Publishers WeeklyAmid the disintegration of the Kingdom of Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a new form of collective government—the commune—arose in the cities of northern and central Italy. Sleepwalking into a New World takes a ... Leer más

    $23.09 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Forbidden Knowledge

    Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy

    de Hannah Marcus ...
    "Wonderful . . . offers and provokes meditation on the timeless nature of censorship, its practices, its intentions and . . . its (unintended) outcomes." — Times Higher EducationForbidden Knowledge explores the censorship of medical books from their proliferation in print through the prohibitions placed on them during the Counter-Reformation. How and why did books banned in Italy in the sixteenth ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Poor and the Perfect

    The Rise of Learning in the Franciscan Order, 1209–1310

    de Neslihan Şenocak ...
    One of the enduring ironies of medieval history is the fact that a group of Italian lay penitents, begging in sackcloths, led by a man who called himself simple and ignorant, turned in a short time into a very popular and respectable order, featuring cardinals and university professors among its ranks. Within a century of its foundation, the Order of Friars Minor could claim hundreds of permanent ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy

    de Jacob Burckhardt ...
    THIS work bears the title of an essay in the strictest sense of the word. No one is more conscious than the writer with what limited means and strength he has addressed himself to a task so arduous. And even if he could look with greater confidence upon his own researches, he would hardly thereby feel more assured of the approval of competent judges. To each eye, perhaps, the outlines of a given ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Deaths of the Popes: Comprehensive Accounts, Including Funerals, Burial Places and Epitaphs

    Comprehensive Accounts, Including Funerals, Burial Places and Epitaphs

    de Wendy J. Reardon ...
    The traditions associated with a pope's death have changed from when they were buried in the catacombs of Rome. Various ceremonies, rites and rituals developed over time, but a formal procedure was not initiated until the early 1300s and even then was not always strictly followed. This comprehensive reference book provides information on the deaths, funerals and burial places of each pope and ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning

    de Nancy G. Siraisi ...
    Series series Cultures Of Knowledge In The Early Modern World
    A path-breaking work at last available in paper, History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning is Nancy G. Siraisi’s examination of the intersections of medically trained authors and history from 1450 to 1650. Rather than studying medicine and history as separate traditions, Siraisi calls attention to their mutual interaction in the rapidly changing world of Renaissance erudition. ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Historians and Historiography in the Italian Renaissance

    de Eric Cochrane ...
    Second edition. A comprehensive survey of historical literature produced in Italy during the Renaissance; a major contribution which discusses hundreds of authors who wrote in Latin or Italian in all parts of Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD