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  • Watching Vesuvius

    A History of Science and Culture in Early Modern Italy

    par Sean Cocco ...
    Mount Vesuvius has been famous ever since its eruption in 79 CE, when it destroyed and buried the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. But less well-known is the role it played in the science and culture of early modern Italy, as Sean Cocco reveals in this ambitious and wide-ranging study. Humanists began to make pilgrimages to Vesuvius during the early Renaissance to experience its beauty and ... En savoir plus

    $61.99 CAD

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  • The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

    par da Vinci, Leonardo ...
    A singular fatality has ruled the destiny of nearly all the most famous of Leonardo da Vinci's works. Two of the three most important were never completed, obstacles having arisen during his life-time, which obliged him to leave them unfinished; namely the Sforza Monument and the Wall-painting of the Battle of Anghiari, while the third—the picture of the Last Supper at Milan—has suffered ... En savoir plus

    $2.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Murder In Matera

    A True Story of Passion, Family, and Forgiveness in Southern Italy

    par Helene Stapinski ...
    “A murder mystery, a model of investigative reporting, a celebration of the fierce bonds that hold families together through tragedies…Murder in Matera is a gem.” — San Francisco Chronicle"Tantalizing" — NPR“A thrilling detective story… Stapinski pursues the study of her family’s criminal genealogy with unexpected emotional results.” — Library ... ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

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  • When in Rome

    Chasing la dolce vita

    par Penelope Green ...
    **The first book in a much loved Italian travel memoir trilogy which also includes the delightful See Naples and Die and Girl by Sea.Winner of the Grollo Ruzzene Foundation Prize in the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards.**We've all dreamed of a new exotic life in a European city, but who actually goes? When in Rome shows what can happen when you are courageous - and perhaps crazy - enough to ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Medici Conspiracy

    The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities-- From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museum

    par Peter Watson, Cecilia Todeschini ...
    The story begins, as stories do in all good thrillers, with a botched robbery and a police chase. Eight Apuleian vases of the fourth century B.C. are discovered in the swimming pool of a German-based art smuggler. More valuable than the recovery of the vases, however, is the discovery of the smuggler's card index detailing his deals and dealers. It reveals the existence of a web of tombaroli -- ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Galateo

    Or, The Rules of Polite Behavior

    par Giovanni Della Casa ...
    "Since it is the case that you are now just beginning that journey that I have for the most part as you see completed, that is, the one through mortal life, and loving you so very much as I do, I have proposed to myself—as one who has been many places—to show you those places in life where, walking through them, I fear you could easily either fall or take the wrong direction."So begins Galateo, a ... En savoir plus

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  • Machiavelli's God

    par Maurizio Viroli ...
    Traduit par Antony Shugaar ...
    How Machiavelli's Christianity shaped his political thoughtTo many readers of The Prince, Machiavelli appears to be deeply un-Christian or even anti-Christian, a cynic who thinks rulers should use religion only to keep their subjects in check. But in Machiavelli's God, Maurizio Viroli, one of the world's leading authorities on Machiavelli, argues that Machiavelli, far from opposing Christianity, ... En savoir plus

    $42.89 CAD

  • The Age of Robert Guiscard

    Southern Italy and the Northern Conquest

    par Graham Loud ...
    Collections series The Medieval World
    Founded upon an unrivalled knowledge of the original sources for the conquest, this is a cogent and lucid analysis of a key medieval subject hitherto largely ignored by historians. ... En savoir plus

    $148.99 CAD

  • Building a Civil Society

    Associations, Public Life, and the Origins of Modern Italy

    par Steven C. Soper ...
    The most passionate advocates of Italy’s unification in the nineteenth century possessed an almost limitless faith in the benefits of civic association. They also shared a common concern: once Italian unification was achieved and various freedoms were established, would ordinary Italians naturally become responsible, progressive citizens – especially after centuries of foreign rule, regional ... En savoir plus

    $86.99 CAD

  • Orpheus in the Marketplace

    Jacopo Peri and the Economy of Late Renaissance Florence

    par Tim Carter, Richard A. Goldthwaite ...
    Collections Livre 10 - I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
    The Florentine musician Jacopo Peri (1561-1633) is known as the composer of the first operas--they include the earliest to survive complete, Euridice (1600), in which Peri sang the role of Orpheus. A large collection of recently discovered account books belonging to him and his family allows for a greater exploration of Peri's professional and personal life. Richard Goldthwaite, an economic ... En savoir plus

    $68.19 CAD

  • Setting Aside All Authority

    Giovanni Battista Riccioli and the Science against Copernicus in the Age of Galileo

    par Christopher M. Graney ...
    Setting Aside All Authority is an important account and analysis of seventeenth-century scientific arguments against the Copernican system. Christopher M. Graney challenges the long-standing ideas that opponents of the heliocentric ideas of Copernicus and Galileo were primarily motivated by religion or devotion to an outdated intellectual tradition, and that they were in continual retreat in the ... En savoir plus

    $25.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Dante's Lyric Poetry

    Poems of Youth and of the 'Vita Nuova'

    Traduit par Richard Lansing ...
    par Andrew Frisardi ...
    Collections series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    The first comprehensive English translation and commentary on Dante’s early verse to be published in almost fifty years, Dante’s Lyric Poetry includes all the poems written by the young Dante Aligheri between c. 1283 and c. 1292. Essays by Teodolinda Barolini guide the reader through the new verse translations by Richard Lansing, illuminating Dante’s transformation from a young courtly poet into ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD