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  • In Fortune's Theater

    Financial Risk and the Future in Renaissance Italy

    par Nicholas Scott Baker ...
    This innovative cultural history of financial risk-taking in Renaissance Italy argues that a new concept of the future as unknown and unknowable emerged in Italian society between the mid-fifteenth and mid-sixteenth centuries. Exploring the rich interchanges between mercantile and intellectual cultures underpinning this development in four major cities - Florence, Genoa, Venice, and Milan - ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

  • Florence in the Early Modern World

    New Perspectives

    par Nicholas Scott Baker, Brian J. Maxson ...
    Collections series Themes in Medieval and Early Modern History
    Florence in the Early Modern World offers new perspectives on this important city by exploring the broader global context of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, within which the experience of Florence remains unique.By exploring the city’s relationship to its close and distant neighbours, this collection of interdisciplinary essays reveals the transnational history of Florence. The chapters ... En savoir plus

    $83.99 CAD

  • The Fruit of Liberty

    Political Culture in the Florentine Renaissance, 1480-1550

    par Nicholas Scott Baker ...
    Collections Livre 9 - I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
    In the middle decades of the sixteenth century, the republican city-state of Florence--birthplace of the Renaissance--failed. In its place the Medici family created a principality, becoming first dukes of Florence and then grand dukes of Tuscany. The Fruit of Liberty examines how this transition occurred from the perspective of the Florentine patricians who had dominated and controlled the ... En savoir plus

    $68.19 CAD

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  • Printing a Mediterranean World

    Florence, Constantinople, and the Renaissance of Geography

    par Sean Roberts ...
    Collections Livre 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 ... En savoir plus

    $70.39 CAD

  • The Italian Renaissance

    Culture and Society in Italy

    par Peter Burke ...
    In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions which existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyses the ways of thinking and seeing which characterized this period of extraordinary artistic creativity. Developing a distinctive sociological ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD

  • Dante Encyclopedia

    Modifié par 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... ... En savoir plus

    $147.99 CAD

  • A Short History of the Italian Renaissance

    par Virginia Cox ...
    Collections series Short Histories
    The extraordinary creative energy of Renaissance Italy lies at the heart of modern western culture. This creativity extended far beyond the visual arts and architecture: dress history, dance history, food history, ritual and ceremonial all contributed to this vibrant rebirth. Virginia Cox here explores the material and economic output of the period, from the late 13th to the 16th century, when ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

  • Armour and Masculinity in the Italian Renaissance

    par Carolyn Springer ...
    During the Italian Wars of 1494 to 1559, with innovations in military technology and tactics, armour began to disappear from the battlefield. Yet as field armour was retired, parade and ceremonial armour grew increasingly flamboyant. Displaced from its utilitarian function of defense but retained for symbolic uses, armour evolved in a new direction as a medium of artistic expression.Luxury armour ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • Venice Reconsidered

    The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297-1797

    par John Jeffries Martin, Dennis Romano ...
    This collection of essays on centuries of culture and politics is "likely to become a landmark in Venetian historiography" ( The Historical Journal).Venice Reconsidered offers a dynamic portrait of Venice from the establishment of the Republic at the end of the thirteenth century to its fall to Napoleon in 1797. In contrast to earlier efforts to categorize Venice's politics as strictly republican ... En savoir plus

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  • A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art

    Modifié par Babette Bohn, James M. Saslow ...
    Collections Livre 29 - Wiley Companions to Art History
    A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art provides a diverse, fresh collection of accessible, comprehensive essays addressing key issues for European art produced between 1300 and 1700, a period that might be termed the beginning of modern history.Presents a collection of original, in-depth essays from art experts that address various aspects of European visual arts produced from circa 1300 to ... En savoir plus

    $70.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance

    Modifié par Michael Wyatt ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    The Renaissance in Italy continues to exercise a powerful hold on the popular imagination and on scholarly enquiry. This Companion presents a lively, comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and current approach to the period that extends in Italy from the turn of the fourteenth century through the latter decades of the sixteenth. Addressed to students, scholars, and non-specialists, it introduces the ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • The World of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Mathematician of God

    par Massimo Mazzotti ...
    Collections Livre 2 - Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Mathematics
    The fascinating true story of mathematician Maria Agnesi.She is best known for her curve, the witch of Agnesi, which appears in almost all high school and undergraduate math books. She was a child prodigy who frequented the salon circuit, discussing mathematics, philosophy, history, and music in multiple languages. She wrote one of the first vernacular textbooks on calculus and was appointed chair ... En savoir plus

    $30.99 CAD