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  • The Duke and the Stars

    Astrology and Politics in Renaissance Milan

    de Monica Azzolini ...
    Series Libro 5 - I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
    This study is the first to examine the important political role played by astrology in Italian court culture. Reconstructing the powerful dynamics existing between astrologers and their prospective or existing patrons, The Duke and the Stars illustrates how the “predictive art” of astrology was a critical source of information for Italian Renaissance rulers, particularly in times of crisis. ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

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  • The Professor of Secrets

    Mystery, Medicine, and Alchemy in Renaissance Italy

    de William Eamon ...
    In the tradition of Galileo's Daughter and Brunelleschi's Dome, this exciting story illuminates the captivating world of the late Renaissance—in this case its plagues, remedies, and alchemy—through the life of Leonardo Fioravanti, a brilliant, remarkably forward-thinking, and utterly unconventional doctor. Fioravanti's marvelous cures and talent for self-aggrandizement earned him the adoration of ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Legends of the Renaissance: The Life and Legacy of Lorenzo de' Medici

    de Charles River Editors ...
    *Includes pictures of Lorenzo and important people and places in his life.*Discusses Lorenzo's relationships with other famous Renaissance legends, including Leonardo and Michelangelo.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. "How beautiful is youth that is always slipping away. Lorenzo de' MediciA lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of historys most ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • The Medici

    de Paul Strathern ...
    Series series Italian Histories
    A dazzling history of the modest family that rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money, and ambition. Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning Paul Strathern explores the intensely dramatic rise and fall of the Medici family in Florence, as well as the Italian Renaissance which they did ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Venice: Lion City

    The Religion of Empire

    de Garry Wills ...
    Garry Wills's Venice: Lion City is a tour de force -- a rich, colorful, and provocative history of the world's most fascinating city in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when it was at the peak of its glory. This was not the city of decadence, carnival, and nostalgia familiar to us from later centuries. It was a ruthless imperial city, with a shrewd commercial base, like ancient Athens, which ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • The Art of Executing Well

    Rituals of Execution in Renaissance Italy

    Edición de Nicholas Terpstra ...
    Series series Early Modern Studies
    In Renaissance Italy a good execution was both public and peaceful—at least in the eyes of authorities. In a feature unique to Italy, the people who prepared a condemned man or woman spiritually and psychologically for execution were not priests or friars, but laymen. This volume includes some of the songs, stories, poems, and images that they used, together with first-person accounts and ballads ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Jews and Magic in Medici Florence

    The Secret World of Benedetto Blanis

    de Edward L. Goldberg ...
    In the seventeenth century, Florence was the splendid capital of the Medici Grand Dukedom of Tuscany. Meanwhile, the Jews in its tiny Ghetto struggled to earn a living by any possible means, especially loan-sharking, rag-picking and second-hand dealing. They were viewed as an uncanny people with rare supernatural powers, and Benedetto Blanis—a businessman and aspiring scholar from a distinguished ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Printing a Mediterranean World

    Florence, Constantinople, and the Renaissance of Geography

    de Sean Roberts ...
    Series Libro 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 ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Cultures of Charity

    Women, Politics, and the Reform of Poor Relief in Renaissance Italy

    de Nicholas Terpstra ...
    Series Libro 6 - I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
    Renaissance Italians pioneered radical changes in ways of helping the poor, including orphanages, workhouses, pawnshops, and women’s shelters. Nicholas Terpstra shows that gender was the key factor driving innovation. Most of the recipients of charity were women. The most creative new plans focused on features of women’s poverty like illegitimate births, hunger, unemployment, and domestic violence ... Leer más

    $56.99 USD

  • The Social World of the Florentine Humanists, 1390-1460

    de Lauro Martines ...
    Lauro Martines' exhaustive search of manuscript material in the state archives of Florence is the basis for a fascinating portrayal of representative humanists of the period. The Social World of the Florentine Humanists explores the wealth, family tradition, civic prominence, and intellectual achievements of these individuals while assessing the attitudes of other Florentines towards them. ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Rome Measured and Imagined

    Early Modern Maps of the Eternal City

    de Jessica Maier ...
    At the turn of the fifteenth century, Rome was in the midst of a dramatic transformation from what the fourteenth-century poet Petrarch had termed a "crumbling city" populated by "broken ruins" into a prosperous Christian capital. Scholars, artists, architects, and engineers fascinated by Rome were spurred to develop new graphic modes for depicting the city—and the genre known as the city portrait ... Leer más

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  • The Prince's Body

    de 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. ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD