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  • Genevra Sforza and the Bentivoglio

    Family, Politics, Gender and Reputation in (and beyond) Renaissance Bologna

    par Elizabeth Bernhardt ...
    Collections series Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
    Genevra Sforza (ca. 1441-1507) lived her long life near the apex of Italian Renaissance society as wife of two successive de facto rulers of Bologna: Sante Bentivoglio then Giovanni II Bentivoglio. Placed there twice without a dowry by Duke Francesco Sforza as part of a larger Milanese plan, Genevra served the Bentivoglio by fulfilling the gendered role demanded of her by society, most notably by ... En savoir plus

    $89.99 CAD

  • Understanding Advanced Second-Language Reading

    par Elizabeth Bernhardt ...
    What distinguishes this book is its broad, yet thorough, view of theory, process, and research on adult second-language reading. Offering extensive discussions of upper-register second-language texts (both expository and narrative) that adult second-language readers encounter daily across the globe, it also presents an assessment schema for second-language text comprehension as well as for the ... En savoir plus

    $101.99 CAD

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  • The Black Prince of Florence

    The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de’ Medici

    par Catherine Fletcher ...
    ‘A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence’ Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard, Books of the Year1531 – after years of brutal war and political intrigue, the bastard son of a Medici Duke and a ‘half-negro’ maidservant rides into Florence. Within a year, he rules the city as its Prince. Backed by the Pope and his future father-in-law the ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Light of Italy

    The Life and Times of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino

    par Jane Stevenson ...
    The story of the Renaissance city and palace of Urbino, and the life of the extraordinary man who created it: Federico da Montefeltro.'Painstakingly researched and yet unfailingly readable' Ross King'An insight into one of Renaissance Italy's most glamorous courts' Catherine Fletcher'The perfect tour guide to the past' Literary Review'A fabulous merging of seductive design with bravura scholarship ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Renaissance Woman

    The Life of Vittoria Colonna

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

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  • Florence Under Siege

    Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City

    par John Henderson ...
    A vivid recreation of how the governors and governed of early seventeenth-century Florence confronted, suffered, and survived a major epidemic of plaguePlague remains the paradigm against which reactions to many epidemics are often judged. Here, John Henderson examines how a major city fought, suffered, and survived the impact of plague. Going beyond traditional oppositions between rich and poor, ... En savoir plus

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  • The Pope's Daughter

    The Extraordinary Life of Felice della Rovere

    par Caroline P. Murphy ...
    The illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II, Felice della Rovere became one of the most powerful and accomplished women of the Italian Renaissance. Now, Caroline Murphy vividly captures the untold story of a rare woman who moved with confidence through a world of popes and princes. Using a wide variety of sources, including Felice's personal correspondence, as well as diaries, account books, and ... En savoir plus

    $20.79 CAD

  • The Merchant of Prato's Wife

    Margherita Datini and Her World, 1360-1423

    par Ann Morton Crabb ...
    Although the fourteenth-century Italian merchant Francesco Datini has received attention from business historians, there has previously been no full study of his wife, Margherita Datini. Drawing on a sizable trove of Margherita’s correspondence held in the Archivio di Stato di Prato, including hundreds of letters she exchanged with Francesco, Ann Crabb investigates the social and economic ... En savoir plus

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  • A Short History of Florence and the Florentine Republic

    par Brian Jeffrey Maxson ...
    Collections series Short Histories
    The innovative city culture of Florence was the crucible within which Renaissance ideas first caught fire. With its soaring cathedral dome and its classically-inspired palaces and piazzas, it is perhaps the finest single expression of a society that is still at its heart an urban one. For, as Brian Jeffrey Maxson reveals, it is above all the city-state – the walled commune which became the chief ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Medici Women

    Gender and Power in Renaissance Florence

    par Natalie R. Tomas ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $89.99 CAD

  • Giuliano de' Medici

    Machiavelli's Prince in Life and Art

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Forbidden Fashions

    Invisible Luxuries in Early Venetian Convents

    par Isabella Campagnol Fabretti ...
    Form-fitting dresses, silk veils, earrings, furs, high-heeled shoes, make-up, and dyed, flowing hair. It is difficult for a contemporary person to reconcile these elegant clothes and accessories with the image of cloistered nuns. For many of the some thousand nuns in early modern Venice, however, these fashions were the norm. Often locked in convents without any religious calling—simply to save ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD