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  • The Transition in Europe between XVII and XVIII centuries.

    Perspectives and case studies

    by AA. VV. ...
    The period of transition between seventeenth and eighteenth century (1680-1720), culminated in the Spanish Succession War, represents an age of great changes all over the Continent; in the Italian mainland, centuries-old Spanish government came to an end and a new era began. This book, that collects benefits of an international workshop hold at Università Cattolica in Milan in 2013, wants ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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    Miracles and Politics in a Secular Age

    by Sergio Luzzatto ...
    Translated by Frederika Randall ...
    Winner of the Cundill History PrizeThe first historical appraisal of the astonishing life and times of a controversial twentieth-century saint.Padre Pio is one of the world's most beloved holy figures, more popular in Italy than the Virgin Mary and even Jesus. His tomb is the most visited Catholic shrine anywhere, drawing more devotees than Lourdes. His miraculous feats included the ability to fly ... Read more

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  • The Italian Renaissance

    Culture and Society in Italy

    by Peter Burke ...
    In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions which existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyses the ways of thinking and seeing which characterized this period of extraordinary artistic creativity. Developing a distinctive sociological ... Read more

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  • The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence

    by Brian Jeffrey Maxson ...
    This book offers a major contribution for understanding the spread of the humanist movement in Renaissance Florence. Investigating the connections between individuals who were part of the humanist movement, Maxson reconstructs the networks that bound them together. Overturning the problematic categorization of humanists as either professional or amateurs, a distinction based on economics and the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • 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

    $36.99 USD

  • The Medici Women

    Gender and Power in Renaissance Florence

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • A third approach to history

    by FRANCESCO CESARE CASULA ...
    Series Book 6 - Storia dell'Italia e della Sardegna (a cura di Francesco Cesare Casula)
    The narration of humankind’s past, that is to say its history, has up to now been done using the extrinsic method of geographic territorial reference and temporal chronological and local topical reference, sometimes together, sometimes separately, almost to form a single expression or two different expressions: two approaches in which to insert the list (quantitative or selective or explicative or ... Read more

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  • The Legend of Montaperti

    by Brad Franco ...
    In this work, historian Brad Franco examines the legend of Montaperti, the story of the extraordinary events which preceded Siena’s victory over Florence in 1260, culminating in the donation of the keys of the city to the Virgin Mary. Is there any historical evidence that the donation ever occurred? If not, what explains the resurgence of interest in Montaperti and the key donation during the ... Read more

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  • Forbidden Fashions

    Invisible Luxuries in Early Venetian Convents

    by 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 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Prince's Body

    by Valeria Finucci ...
    Series series I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history
    Using four notorious moments in the life of Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga of Mantua, Valeria Finucci explores changing early modern concepts of sexuality, reproduction, beauty, and aging. She deftly marries salacious tales with historical analysis to tell a broader story of Italian Renaissance cultural adjustments and obsessions. ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Early Modern Habsburg Women

    Transnational Contexts, Cultural Conflicts, Dynastic Continuities

    Edited by Anne J. Cruz, Maria Galli Stampino ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    As the first comprehensive volume devoted entirely to women of both the Spanish and Austrian Habsburg royal dynasties spanning the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries, this interdisciplinary collection illuminates their complex and often contradictory political functions and their interrelations across early modern national borders. The essays in this volume investigate the lives of six ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Papacy, Religious Orders, and International Politics in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

    by Autori Vari ...
    During the early modern age religious orders had to interpret papal strategies and directives in international politics in the light of a substantial ambiguity. They were loyal subjects of the pope, but also trusted agents and advisers of princes. They were operatives of the Holy See and, at the same time, of strategies not necessarily in line with Roman guidelines. This ambiguity resulted in ... Read more

    $21.99 USD