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  • Leon Battista Alberti in Exile

    Tracing the Path to the First Modern Book on Painting

    de Peter Weller ...
    The prodigy poet, playwright, architect, painter, and humanist savant Leon Battista Alberti emerged in 1435 with De pictura ['On Painting'], the modern era's earliest discourse on Western art, written in classical Latin by an ostensible practitioner of the craft. Alberti has captivated the art world from his own epoch to ours, and his dubious Florentine identity enables this allure. In this volume ... Leer más

    $106.99 USD

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    Steppenwolf

    de Hermann Hesse ...
    Narrado por Peter Weller ...

    Completo

    7 hora 42 minutos

    With its blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture, Hesse’s best-known and most autobiographical work is one of literature’s most poetic evocations of the soul’s journey to liberationHarry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual for whom life holds no joy. He struggles to reconcile the wild primeval wolf and the rational man within himself without surrendering to the ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

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    The Glass Bead Game

    de Hermann Hesse ...
    Narrado por David Colacci ...

    Completo

    21 hora 16 minutos

    The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, The Glass Bead Game is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life as well as a classic of modern literatureSet in the twenty-third century, The Glass Bead Game is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised in Castalia, the remote place his society has provided for the intellectual elite to grow ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

  • Renaissance Woman

    The Life of Vittoria Colonna

    de Ramie Targoff ...
    A biography of Vittoria Colonna, confidante of Michelangelo, scion of one of the most powerful families of her era, and a pivotal figure in the Italian RenaissanceRamie Targoff's Renaissance Woman tells of the most remarkable woman of the Italian Renaissance: Vittoria Colonna, Marchesa of Pescara. Vittoria has long been celebrated by scholars of Michelangelo as the artist's best friend—the two of ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Dante Encyclopedia

    Edición de 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... ... Leer más

    $106.99 USD

  • Forbidden Knowledge

    Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Making of Measure and the Promise of Sameness

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $20.19 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Petrarch

    A Critical Guide to the Complete Works

    Edición de Victoria Kirkham, Armando Maggi ...
    Although Francesco Petrarca (1304–74) is best known today for cementing the sonnet's place in literary history, he was also a philosopher, historian, orator, and one of the foremost classical scholars of his age. Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works is the only comprehensive, single-volume source to which anyone—scholar, student, or general reader—can turn for information on each of ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Medici Women

    Gender and Power in Renaissance Florence

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $64.99 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

    $36.99 USD

  • The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Boccaccio

    A Critical Guide to the Complete Works

    Edición de Victoria Kirkham,, Michael Sherberg, Janet Levarie Smarr ...
    Long celebrated as one of "the Three Crowns" of Florence, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–75) experimented widely with the forms of literature. His prolific and innovative writings—which range beyond the novella, from lyric to epic, from biography to mythography and geography, from pastoral and romance to invective—became powerful models for authors in Italy and across the Continent.This collection of ... Leer más

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