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  • The Venetian Qur'an

    A Renaissance Companion to Islam

    de Pier Mattia Tommasino ...
    Traducido por Sylvia Notini ...
    Series series Material Texts
    An anonymous book appeared in Venice in 1547 titled L'Alcorano di Macometto, and, according to the title page, it contained "the doctrine, life, customs, and laws [of Mohammed] . . . newly translated from Arabic into the Italian language." Were this true, L'Alcorano di Macometto would have been the first printed direct translation of the Qur'an in a European vernacular language. The truth, however ... Leer más

    $50.99 USD

  • The Venetian Qur'an

    A Renaissance Companion to Islam

    de Pier Mattia Tommasino ...
    Traducido por Sylvia Notini ...
    Series series Material Texts
    An anonymous book appeared in Venice in 1547 titled L'Alcorano di Macometto, and, according to the title page, it contained "the doctrine, life, customs, and laws [of Mohammed] . . . newly translated from Arabic into the Italian language." Were this true, L'Alcorano di Macometto would have been the first printed direct translation of the Qur'an in a European vernacular language. The truth, however ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

  • Machiavelli’s Prince

    Traditions, Text and Translations

    de Nicola Gardini, Martin McLaughlin ...
    One of the high-points of Italian Renaissance humanism, Machiavelli’s The Prince immediately transcended the time and culture from which it had sprung, circulating throughout Europe and paving the road to an astonishing variety of discussions on power and liberty for centuries to come. Indeed, one could hardly think of a literary work whose reception has been more controversial and arguably more ... Leer más

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  • Galileo's Idol

    Gianfrancesco Sagredo & the Politics of Knowledge

    de Nick Wilding ...
    Galileo's Idol offers a vivid depiction of Galileo's friend, student, and patron, Gianfrancesco Sagredo (1571–1620). Sagredo's life, which has never before been studied in depth, brings to light the inextricable relationship between the production, distribution, and reception of political information and scientific knowledge.Nick Wilding uses as wide a variety of sources as possible—paintings, ... Leer más

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  • 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

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  • Historians and Historiography in the Italian Renaissance

    de Eric Cochrane ...
    Second edition. A comprehensive survey of historical literature produced in Italy during the Renaissance; a major contribution which discusses hundreds of authors who wrote in Latin or Italian in all parts of Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. ... Leer más

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  • Dante and Islam

    de Jan M. Ziolkowski ...
    Series series Dante's World: Historicizing Literary Cultures of the Due and Trecento
    Dante put Muhammad in one of the lowest circles of Hell. At the same time, the medieval Christian poet placed several Islamic philosophers much more honorably in Limbo. Furthermore, it has long been suggested that for much of the basic framework of the Divine Comedy Dante was indebted to apocryphal traditions about a “night journey” taken by Muhammad.Dante scholars have increasingly returned to ... Leer más

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  • Being a Jesuit in Renaissance Italy

    Biographical Writing in the Early Global Age

    de Camilla Russell ...
    Series series I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history
    A new history illuminates the Society of Jesus in its first century from the perspective of those who knew it best: the early Jesuits themselves.The Society of Jesus was established in 1540. In the century that followed, thousands sought to become Jesuits and pursue vocations in religious service, teaching, and missions. Drawing on scores of unpublished biographical documents housed at the Roman ... Leer más

    $41.99 USD

  • Conversion to Catholicism in Early Modern Italy

    de Peter A. Mazur ...
    Series series Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World
    In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, conversion took on a new importance within the Catholic world, as its leaders faced the challenge of expanding the church's reach to new peoples and continents while at the same time reinforcing its authority in the Old World. Based on new archival research, this book details the extraordinary stories of converts who embraced a new religious identity in ... Leer más

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