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  • Tuscany in the Age of Empire

    de Brian Brege ...
    Series series I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history
    Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book PrizeA new history explores how one of Renaissance Italy’s leading cities maintained its influence in an era of global exploration, trade, and empire.The Grand Duchy of Tuscany was not an imperial power, but it did harbor global ambitions. After abortive attempts at overseas colonization and direct commercial expansion, as Brian Brege ... Leer más

    $48.99 USD

  • Trading at the Edge of Empires

    Francesco Carletti's World, c. 1600

    Edición de Brian Brege, Paula Findlen, Luca Molà, Giorgio Riello ...
    Series Libro 9 - I Tatti Research Series
    In narrating his circumnavigation of the world at the turn of the seventeenth century, the Florentine Francesco Carletti became the first European merchant to leave an account of travel on existing commercial routes. A repentant ex-slave trader and smuggler turned dealer in Chinese goods, Carletti travelled “at the edge of empires,” providing a unique perspective on the promise and peril of a ... Leer más

    $40.19 USD

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  • The Light of Italy

    The Life and Times of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino

    de Jane Stevenson ...
    The story of the Renaissance city and palace of Urbino, and the life of the extraordinary man who created it: Federico da Montefeltro.'Painstakingly researched and yet unfailingly readable' Ross King'An insight into one of Renaissance Italy's most glamorous courts' Catherine Fletcher'The perfect tour guide to the past' Literary Review'A fabulous merging of seductive design with bravura scholarship ... Leer más

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  • Matera from the Sassi to the new city

    de Enzo Montemurro ...
    Guide - Matera from the Sassi to the new cityThere have been many guides and illustrated books about the Sassi of Matera. Some are estimable products of studies and researches that describe the birth and the evolution of the unique hamlet that the Sassi of Matera represent. This handbook, on the other hand, is not so ambitious as the others, and does not offer unpublished assertions on the origins ... Leer más

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  • Venice Reconsidered

    The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297-1797

    de John Jeffries Martin, Dennis Romano ...
    This collection of essays on centuries of culture and politics is "likely to become a landmark in Venetian historiography" ( The Historical Journal).Venice Reconsidered offers a dynamic portrait of Venice from the establishment of the Republic at the end of the thirteenth century to its fall to Napoleon in 1797. In contrast to earlier efforts to categorize Venice's politics as strictly republican ... Leer más

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  • Der Lange Türkenkrieg (1593-1606) Vol. I

    The long Turkish war - Habsburgs arrest the Ottoman advance

    de Bruno Mugnai, Christopher Flaherty ...
    Series Libro 24 - Soldiers&Weapons
    After more than half-a-century of wars in Hungary, the conflict between the Habsburgs and the Sublime Porte explodes in 1593, after a series of border incidents. The confrontation was soon regarded as crucial by both sides, also involving the neighbouring states in a complex and ruthless game of diplomacy and betrayal. The organization and the equipment of the various armies of the protagonists of ... Leer más

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  • Armour and Masculinity in the Italian Renaissance

    de Carolyn Springer ...
    During the Italian Wars of 1494 to 1559, with innovations in military technology and tactics, armour began to disappear from the battlefield. Yet as field armour was retired, parade and ceremonial armour grew increasingly flamboyant. Displaced from its utilitarian function of defense but retained for symbolic uses, armour evolved in a new direction as a medium of artistic expression.Luxury armour ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • The Etruscan World

    Edición de Jean MacIntosh Turfa ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    The Etruscans can be shown to have made significant, and in some cases perhaps the first, technical advances in the central and northern Mediterranean. To the Etruscan people we can attribute such developments as the tie-beam truss in large wooden structures, surveying and engineering drainage and water tunnels, the development of the foresail for fast long-distance sailing vessels, fine ... Leer más

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  • Brokering Empire

    Trans-Imperial Subjects between Venice and Istanbul

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Agents of Empire

    Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World

    de Noel Malcolm ...
    In the late sixteenth century, a prominent Albanian named Antonio Bruni composed a revealing document about his home country. Historian Sir Noel Malcolm takes this document as a point of departure to explore the lives of the entire Bruni family, whose members included an archbishop of the Balkans, the captain of the papal flagship at the Battle of Lepanto--at which the Ottomans were turned back in ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • 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

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  • Genoa and the Sea

    Policy and Power in an Early Modern Maritime Republic, 1559–1684

    de Thomas Allison Kirk ...
    Series Libro 123 - The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
    Genoa enjoyed an important and ever-changing role in the early modern Mediterranean world. In medieval times, the city transformed itself from a tumultuous maritime republic into a stable and prosperous one, making it one of the most important financial centers in Europe. When Spanish influence in the Mediterranean world began to decline, Genoa, its prosperity closely linked with Spain's, again ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD