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  • Vita di Niccolò Machiavelli fiorentino

    de Simone Testa, Marco De Luca ...
    In un giorno di gennaio del 1527 Machiavelli, vicino al termine della vita, accoglie in casa sua un frate. Tra un bicchiere di vino e una fetta di formaggio, le domande dell’ospite forniscono la miccia per i flashback che illustrano la vita movimentata dell’ex segretario fiorentino. Machiavelli racconta le sue missioni diplomatiche, l’incontro con Cesare Borgia, la creazione della milizia ... Leer más

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  • Liberty, Irreverence, and the Place of Women in Early Modern Italian Culture: Essays in Honour of Letizia Panizza

    Edición de Stephen Clucas, Simone Testa ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book brings together essays from a range of disciplines within Early Modern Italian Studies, which focus on research areas pioneered by the prestigious Italianist, Letizia Panizza. The essays cover numerous themes, mirroring Panizza's broad scholarly interests, and refusal of artificial disciplinary separations. Contributions come from the fields of women's history, cultural history, ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD

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  • Reading Dante

    From Here to Eternity

    de Prue Shaw ...
    The best and most eloquent introduction to Dante for our time.Prue Shaw is one of the world's foremost authorities on Dante. Written with the general reader in mind, Reading Dante brings her knowledge to bear in an accessible yet expert introduction to his great poem.This is far more than an exegesis of Dante’s three-part Commedia. Shaw communicates the imaginative power, the linguistic skill and ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Honest Courtesan

    Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice

    de Margaret F. Rosenthal ...
    The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to make of the cortigiana onesta—the honest courtesan who recast virtue as intellectual integrity and offered wit and refinement in return for patronage and a place in public life? Veronica Franco (1546-1591) was such a woman, a writer and citizen of Venice, ... Leer más

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  • 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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  • Florence Under Siege

    Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City

    de John Henderson ...
    A vivid recreation of how the governors and governed of early seventeenth-century Florence confronted, suffered, and survived a major epidemic of plaguePlague remains the paradigm against which reactions to many epidemics are often judged. Here, John Henderson examines how a major city fought, suffered, and survived the impact of plague. Going beyond traditional oppositions between rich and poor, ... Leer más

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  • Dante Encyclopedia

    Edición de Richard Lansing ...
    Available for the first time in paperback, this essential resource presents a systematic introduction to Dante's life and works, his cultural context and intellectual legacy.The only such work available in English, this Encyclopedia:brings together contemporary theories on Dante, summarizing them in clear and vivid proseprovides in-depth discussions of the Divine Comedy, looki... ... Leer más

    $106.99 USD

  • Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court

    Music and the Circulation of Power

    de Suzanne G. Cusick ...
    A "priceless" study of the life and career of the Renaissance-era Italian who was the first woman to have composed an opera ( Gender & History)."Extraordinary in its breadth, its detail, its insight, and its worth to all participants in early music…. Its contribution is not limited to the musical world, however, as Cusick's remarkable command and analysis of her material…has immense value for ... Leer más

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  • Giuliano de' Medici

    Machiavelli's Prince in Life and Art

    de Josephine Jungic ...
    Most modern historians perpetuate the myth that Giuliano de' Medici (1479-1516), son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, was nothing more than an inconsequential, womanizing hedonist with little inclination or ability for politics. In the first sustained biography of this misrepresented figure, Josephine Jungic re-evaluates Giuliano’s life and shows that his infamous reputation was exaggerated by Medici ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Petrarch

    A Critical Guide to the Complete Works

    Edición de Victoria Kirkham, Armando Maggi ...
    Although Francesco Petrarca (1304–74) is best known today for cementing the sonnet's place in literary history, he was also a philosopher, historian, orator, and one of the foremost classical scholars of his age. Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works is the only comprehensive, single-volume source to which anyone—scholar, student, or general reader—can turn for information on each of ... Leer más

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  • The Medici Women

    Gender and Power in Renaissance Florence

    de Natalie R. Tomas ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    The Medici Women is a study of the women of the famous Medici family of Florence in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Natalie Tomas examines critically the changing contribution of the women in the Medici family to the eventual success of the Medici regime and their exercise of power within it; and contributes to our historical understanding of how women were able to wield power in late ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Forbidden Fashions

    Invisible Luxuries in Early Venetian Convents

    de Isabella Campagnol Fabretti ...
    Form-fitting dresses, silk veils, earrings, furs, high-heeled shoes, make-up, and dyed, flowing hair. It is difficult for a contemporary person to reconcile these elegant clothes and accessories with the image of cloistered nuns. For many of the some thousand nuns in early modern Venice, however, these fashions were the norm. Often locked in convents without any religious calling—simply to save ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD