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  • The Khan’s Pifferi

    Reading about the Musics of Asia in Late Fifteenth-Century Italy

    by Tim Shephard, Chenxi Xiao ...
    This volume explores what Italian readers of the 1480s and 1490s could learn about Asian music through the expanding medium of print. Drawing on ten travel books printed in Italy before 1501, reporting the experiences of pilgrims, merchants, diplomats, adventurers, and an enslaved individual, the authors examine how musical practices in the Levant, Turkey, Persia, India, and China were described ... Read more

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  • The Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps

    by Benjamin B. Olshin ...
    What's the truth behind the travels of Marco Polo? "A fascinating tale about maps, history and exploration."— Times Literary Supplement (UK)In the thirteenth century, Italian merchant and explorer Marco Polo traveled from Venice to the far reaches of Asia, a journey he chronicled in a narrative titled Il Milione, later known as The Travels of Marco Polo. While Polo's writings would go on to ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Renaissance Woman

    The Life of Vittoria Colonna

    by 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 ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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  • The Medieval Invention of Travel

    by Shayne Aaron Legassie ...
    Over the course of the Middle Ages, the economies of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa became more closely integrated, fostering the international and intercontinental journeys of merchants, pilgrims, diplomats, missionaries, and adventurers. During a time in history when travel was often difficult, expensive, and fraught with danger, these wayfarers composed accounts of their experiences in ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The World Map, 1300–1492

    The Persistence of Tradition and Transformation

    by Evelyn Edson ...
    A history of the development of world maps during the later medieval period in the centuries leading up to Columbus's journey.In the two centuries before Columbus, mapmaking was transformed. The World Map, 1300–1492 investigates this important, transitional period of mapmaking. Beginning with a 1436 atlas of ten maps produced by Venetian Andrea Bianco, Evelyn Edson uses maps of the fourteenth and ... Read more

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  • Brokering Empire

    Trans-Imperial Subjects between Venice and Istanbul

    by E. Natalie Rothman ...
    In Brokering Empire**, E. Natalie Rothman explores the intersecting worlds of those who regularly traversed the early modern Venetian-Ottoman frontier, including colonial migrants, redeemed slaves, merchants, commercial brokers, religious converts, and diplomatic interpreters.** In their sustained interactions across linguistic, religious, and political lines these trans-imperial subjects helped ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Giuliano de' Medici

    Machiavelli's Prince in Life and Art

    by 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 ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Engineering the Eternal City

    Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome

    by Pamela O. Long ...
    Between the catastrophic flood of the Tiber River in 1557 and the death of the "engineering pope" Sixtus V in 1590, the city of Rome was transformed by intense activity involving building construction and engineering projects of all kinds. Using hundreds of archival documents and primary sources, Engineering the Eternal City explores the processes and people involved in these infrastructure ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Printing a Mediterranean World

    Florence, Constantinople, and the Renaissance of Geography

    by Sean Roberts ...
    Series Book 7 - I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
    In 1482, the Florentine humanist and statesman Francesco Berlinghieri produced the Geographia, a book of over one hundred folio leaves describing the world in Italian verse, inspired by the ancient Greek geography of Ptolemy. The poem, divided into seven books (one for each day of the week the author “travels” the known world), is interleaved with lavishly engraved maps to accompany readers on ... Read more

    $70.39 CAD

  • The Mythological Origins of Renaissance Florence

    The City as New Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem

    by Irina Chernetsky ...
    In this book, Irina Chernetsky examines how humanists, patrons, and artists promoted Florence as the reincarnation of the great cities of pagan and Christian antiquity – Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem. The architectural image of an ideal Florence was discussed in chronicles and histories, poetry and prose, and treatises on art and religious sermons. It was also portrayed in paintings, sculpture, and ... Read more

    $102.39 CAD

  • India in the Italian Renaissance

    Visions of a Contemporary Pagan World 1300-1600

    by Meera Juncu ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Early Modern History
    India in the Italian Renaissance provides a systematic, chronological survey of early Italian representations of India and Indians from the late medieval period to the end of the 16th century, and their resonance within the cultural context of Renaissance Italy. The study focuses in particular on Italian attitudes towards the inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent and questions how Renaissance ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Being a Jesuit in Renaissance Italy

    Biographical Writing in the Early Global Age

    by Camilla Russell ...
    Series series I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history
    A new history illuminates the Society of Jesus in its first century from the perspective of those who knew it best: the early Jesuits themselves.The Society of Jesus was established in 1540. In the century that followed, thousands sought to become Jesuits and pursue vocations in religious service, teaching, and missions. Drawing on scores of unpublished biographical documents housed at the Roman ... Read more

    $56.09 CAD