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  • Feeding the Medieval Italian Commune

    Grain, Political Legitimacy, and War, c. 1100-1350

    by George W. Dameron ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Demonstrates how the evolution of food policy went hand-in-hand with political developments in medieval Tuscan city-statesFeeding the Medieval Italian Commune explores food security in medieval Italy through the political economy of grain in Tuscany, one of the most prosperous, populated, and culturally significant areas of later medieval Europe. George W. Dameron shows how the Tuscan city-states, ... Read more

    $84.79 CAD

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  • Florence and Its Church in the Age of Dante

    by George W. Dameron ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    By the early fourteenth century, the city of Florence had emerged as an economic power in Tuscany, surpassing even Siena, which had previously been the banking center of the region. In the space of fifty years, during the lifetime of Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321, Florence had transformed itself from a political and economic backwater—scarcely keeping pace with its Tuscan neighbors—to one of the ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Florence and Its Church in the Age of Dante

    by George W. Dameron ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    By the early fourteenth century, the city of Florence had emerged as an economic power in Tuscany, surpassing even Siena, which had previously been the banking center of the region. In the space of fifty years, during the lifetime of Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321, Florence had transformed itself from a political and economic backwater—scarcely keeping pace with its Tuscan neighbors—to one of the ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

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  • Medici Money

    Banking, metaphysics and art in fifteenth-century Florence

    by Tim Parks ...
    The Medici are famous as the rulers of Florence at the high point of the Renaissance. Their power derived from the family bank, and this book tells the fascinating, frequently bloody story of the family and the dramatic development and collapse of their bank (from Cosimo who took it over in 1419 to his grandson Lorenzo the Magnificent who presided over its precipitous decline). The Medici faced ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • April Blood

    Florence and the Plot against the Medici

    by Lauro Martines ...
    One of the world's leading historians of Renaissance Italy brings to life here the vibrant--and violent--society of fifteenth-century Florence. His disturbing narrative opens up an entire culture, revealing the dark side of Renaissance man and politician Lorenzo de' Medici. On a Sunday in April 1478, assassins attacked Lorenzo and his brother as they attended Mass in the cathedral of Florence. ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Fire in the City:Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence

    Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence

    by Lauro Martines ...
    A gripping and beautifully written narrative that reads like a novel, Fire in the City presents a compelling account of a key moment in the history of the Renaissance, illuminating the remarkable man who dominated the period, the charismatic Savonarola. Lauro Martines, whose decades of scholarship have made him one of the most admired historians of Renaissance Italy, here provides a remarkably ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

  • April Blood

    by Lauro Martines ...
    In April 1478, a plot to murder the two heads of the powerful Medici family dramatically miscarried. The younger of the two brothers was killed, but Lorenzo the Magnificent, the brilliant poet and connoisseur escaped. A bloodbath followed and all of Italy was at once affected as it emerged that the Pope, the King of Naples, and the Duke of Urbino were deeply implicated in the plot, and that ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • An Unlikely Prince

    The Life and Times of Machiavelli

    by Niccolo Capponi ...
    In this compelling new biography, historian Niccolò Capponi frees Machiavelli (1469–1527) from centuries of misinterpretation. Exploring the Renaissance city of Florence, where Machiavelli lived, Capponi reveals the man behind the legend. A complex portrait of Machiavelli emerges—at once a brilliantly skillful diplomat and a woefully inept liar; a sharp thinker and an impractical dreamer; a ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Power And Imagination

    by Lauro Martines ...
    The great Italian city-states: Venice, Florence, Milan, and the others. The particular nature of their history and culture through the five centuries of their emergence, magnificent flowering, and twilight is brilliantly explored in terms of the internal shifts of economic, social, and political power—by violence, by manipulation, by the gradual pressures of changing circumstance. And here are the ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • A Short History of the Renaissance in Europe

    by Margaret L. King ...
    Writing about the Renaissance can be a daunting task. Not only do scholars disagree on what the Renaissance is, but they also disagree on whether or not it even took place. Margaret L. King's richly illustrated social history of the Renaissance succeeds as a trusted resource, introducing readers to Europe between 1300*–*1700, as well as to the problems of cultural renewal.A Short History of the ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence

    by 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 ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Divas in the Convent

    Nuns, Music & Defiance in 17th-Century Italy

    by Craig A. Monson ...
    When eight-year-old Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana (1590–1662) entered one of the preeminent convents in Bologna in 1598, she had no idea what cloistered life had in store for her. Thanks to clandestine instruction from a local maestro di cappella—and despite the church hierarchy's vehement opposition to all convent music—Vizzana became the star of the convent, composing works so thoroughly modern and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus