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  • The Rise of Alchemy in Fourteenth-Century England

    Plantagenet Kings and the Search for the Philosopher's Stone

    de Dr Jonathan Hughes ...
    The first book to explore the importance of alchemy and its links to the occult in the period between 1320 and 1400. Alchemists didn't just try to turn metals into gold: they studied planetary influences on metals and people, refined plants and minerals in the search for medicines. This book illustrates how this branch of thought became more popular as the practical and theoretical knowledge of ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • Dante’s Divine Comedy in Early Renaissance England

    The Collision of Two Worlds

    de Dr Jonathan Hughes ...
    Dante's Divine Comedy in Early Renaissance England compares the intellectual, emotional, and religious world of Dante in 13th-century Florence with that of a group of English intellectuals gathered around Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, uncle of the King, Henry VI.Here, Jonathan Hughes establishes that there was a Renaissance in 15th-century England, encouraged by the discovery and translations of ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

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  • The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

    How the World Became Modern

    de Stephen Greenblatt ...
    Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-FictionWinner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-FictionOne of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • 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

  • Dante

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Peter Hainsworth, David Robey ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey take a different approach to Dante, by examining the main themes and issues that run through all of his work, ranging from autobiography, to understanding God and the order of the universe. In doing so, they highlight what has made Dante a vital point of reference for modern writers and readers, both inside and outside Italy. They ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age

    de Frances Yates ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    It is hard to overestimate the importance of the contribution made by Dame Frances Yates to the serious study of esotericism and the occult sciences. To her work can be attributed the contemporary understanding of the occult origins of much of Western scientific thinking, indeed of Western civilization itself. The Occult Philosophy of the Elizabethan Age was her last book, and in it she condensed ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Dante in Love

    The World's Greatest Poem and How It Made History

    de Harriet Rubin ...
    Dante in Love is the story of the most famous journey in literature. Dante Alighieri, exiled from his home in Florence, a fugitive from justice, followed a road in 1302 that took him first to the labyrinths of hell then up the healing mountain of purgatory, and finally to paradise. He found a vision and a language that made him immortal.Author Harriet Rubin follows Dante's path along the old ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • A Short History of the Renaissance

    de Edith Sichel ...
    MICHAEL ANGELO'S great painting of the newly created Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel might be taken as a symbol of the Renaissance, of the time when man was, as it were, re-created more glorious than before, with a body naked and unashamed, and a strong arm, unimpaired by fasting, outstretched towards life and light. Definitions are generally misleading, and it is easier to represent the ... Leer más

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  • Shakespeare: I am Italian. He reveals himself in coded messages

    de Vito Costantini ...
    The year 2016 is the four hundredth anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, the greatest playwright and poet of the English language. In reality, it was an illiterate actor who died in 1616. He had pilfered not only the stage name, but also the works of two Italian immigrants, Michelangelo and Giovanni Florio, father and son, who emigrated to England because of the Inquisition. In the last ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Fortunes of the Courtier

    The European Reception of Castiglione's Cortegiano

    de Peter Burke ...
    This book aims to understand the different readings of Castiglione's Cortegiano or Book of the Courtier from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. ... Leer más

    $21.00 USD

  • Milton and the Making of Paradise Lost

    de William Poole ...
    "An authoritative, and accessible, introduction to Milton's life and an engaging examination of the process of composing Paradise Lost" ( Choice).In early 1642 Milton promised English readers a work of literature so great that "they should not willingly let it die." Twenty-five years later, the epic poem Paradise Lost appeared in print. In the interim, however, the poet had gone totally blind and ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Dante's Divine Comedy

    de Ian Thomson ...
    Series Libro 12 - The Landmark Library
    A TLS Book of the Year.'Erudite and urgent, Ian Thomson's Dante's Divine Comedy is another book that everyone ought to read' Spectator.'Succinct but wide-ranging, Ian Thomson's richly illustrated exploration of Dante's masterpiece is... fun... ingenious... fascinating' Observer.'A book worth savouring as a chunky, chatty, richly illustrated guide that brings Dante and his world within our r... ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD