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  • The Venetian Qur'an

    A Renaissance Companion to Islam

    par Pier Mattia Tommasino ...
    Traduit par Sylvia Notini ...
    Collections series Material Texts
    An anonymous book appeared in Venice in 1547 titled L'Alcorano di Macometto, and, according to the title page, it contained "the doctrine, life, customs, and laws [of Mohammed] . . . newly translated from Arabic into the Italian language." Were this true, L'Alcorano di Macometto would have been the first printed direct translation of the Qur'an in a European vernacular language. The truth, however ... En savoir plus

    $72.79 CAD

  • The Venetian Qur'an

    A Renaissance Companion to Islam

    par Pier Mattia Tommasino ...
    Traduit par Sylvia Notini ...
    Collections series Material Texts
    An anonymous book appeared in Venice in 1547 titled L'Alcorano di Macometto, and, according to the title page, it contained "the doctrine, life, customs, and laws [of Mohammed] . . . newly translated from Arabic into the Italian language." Were this true, L'Alcorano di Macometto would have been the first printed direct translation of the Qur'an in a European vernacular language. The truth, however ... En savoir plus

    $91.19 CAD

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  • Dante Encyclopedia

    Modifié par 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... ... En savoir plus

    $147.02 CAD

  • Forbidden Knowledge

    Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Giuliano de' Medici

    Machiavelli's Prince in Life and Art

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $32.79 CAD

  • Galileo's Idol

    Gianfrancesco Sagredo & the Politics of Knowledge

    par Nick Wilding ...
    Galileo's Idol offers a vivid depiction of Galileo's friend, student, and patron, Gianfrancesco Sagredo (1571–1620). Sagredo's life, which has never before been studied in depth, brings to light the inextricable relationship between the production, distribution, and reception of political information and scientific knowledge.Nick Wilding uses as wide a variety of sources as possible—paintings, ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $23.99 CAD Maintenant $19.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Making of Measure and the Promise of Sameness

    par Emanuele Lugli ...
    An interdisciplinary history of standardized measurements.Measurement is all around us—from the circumference of a pizza to the square footage of an apartment, from the length of a newborn baby to the number of miles between neighboring towns. Whether inches or miles, centimeters or kilometers, measures of distance stand at the very foundation of everything we do, so much so that we take them for ... En savoir plus

    $25.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Dante and Islam

    par Jan M. Ziolkowski ...
    Collections series Dante's World: Historicizing Literary Cultures of the Due and Trecento
    Dante put Muhammad in one of the lowest circles of Hell. At the same time, the medieval Christian poet placed several Islamic philosophers much more honorably in Limbo. Furthermore, it has long been suggested that for much of the basic framework of the Divine Comedy Dante was indebted to apocryphal traditions about a “night journey” taken by Muhammad.Dante scholars have increasingly returned to ... En savoir plus

    $38.39 CAD

  • Historians and Historiography in the Italian Renaissance

    par 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. ... En savoir plus

    $25.29 CAD

  • Conversion to Catholicism in Early Modern Italy

    par Peter A. Mazur ...
    Collections series Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World
    In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, conversion took on a new importance within the Catholic world, as its leaders faced the challenge of expanding the church's reach to new peoples and continents while at the same time reinforcing its authority in the Old World. Based on new archival research, this book details the extraordinary stories of converts who embraced a new religious identity in ... En savoir plus

    $89.31 CAD

  • Being a Jesuit in Renaissance Italy

    Biographical Writing in the Early Global Age

    par Camilla Russell ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $56.09 CAD

  • The Making of Christian Malta

    From the Early Middle Ages to 1530

    par Anthony Luttrell ...
    Collections series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2002: Dr Luttrell's work has helped change our understanding of the history of the small islands of Malta and Gozo, providing a more coherent story of the ways in which, during the Middle Ages, a small isolated Muslim community was converted into a more prosperous outpost of Roman Christianity with a unique cultural mixture of Arabic speech and European ... En savoir plus

    $107.17 CAD