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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
by Ross King  
Powells.com Staff Pick Of the many transformations that architecture has undergone throughout history, none is more important to the Renaissance than Filippo Brunelleschi's dome design for the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral in Florence. Few books have introduced...
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The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Penguin Classics)
by Jacob Burckhardt Synopsis This 19th-century survey of the Renaissance propounds the view that it was at this time that man became aware of himself as a spiritual individual. This concept of the Renaissance has been much discussed, as has Burckhardt's cultural pessimism....
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Pope's Daughter : the Extraordinary Life of Felice Della Rovere (05 Edition)
by Caroline P. Murphy Publisher Comments 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...
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A Venetian Affair: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in the 18th Century
by Andrea Di Robilant Publisher Comments In the waning days of Venice's glory in the mid-1700s, Andrea Memmo was scion to one the city's oldest patrician families. At the age of twenty-four he fell passionately in love with sixteen-year-old Giustiniana Wynne, the beautiful, illegitimate...
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A History of Venice
by John Julius Norwich Publisher Comments Traces the rise ot empire of this city from its 5th century beginnings all the way through until 1797 when Napolean put an end to the thousand year-old Republic. 32 pages of black and white photos, 4 maps and charts....
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A Venetian Affair
by Andrea Di Robilant Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-[300]) and index....
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Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for Renaissance Florence
by Lauro Martines Publisher Comments 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...
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Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy
by Sarah Bradford Publisher Comments The very name Lucrezia Borgia conjures up everything that was sinister and corrupt about the Renaissanceincest, political assassination, papal sexual abuse, poisonous intrigue, unscrupulous power grabs. Yet, as bestselling biographer Sarah Bradford...
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Florence and the Medici
by J R Hale Publisher Comments The enduring fascination of the Medici springs from their ability--as individuals and as a family--to control the government of Florence, first as a quasi-democracy and finally through inheritance. Based on the latest research, this perceptive study, by...
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The Towns of Italy in the Later Middle Ages (Manchester Medieval Sources Series)
by Trevor Dean Publisher Comments The towns of Italy in the later Middle Ages presents over one hundred fascinating documents, carefully selected and coordinated from the richest, most innovative and most documented society of the European Middle Ages: the urban civilization of Italy...
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The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice (Women in Culture & Society)
by Margaret Rosenthal Publisher Comments The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to make of the cortigiana onesta—the honest courtesan who recast virtue as intellectual integrity and offered...
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Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici
by Miles J Unger Publisher Comments Magnifico is a vividly colorful portrait of Lorenzo de' Medici, the uncrowned ruler of Florence during its golden age. A true "Renaissance man," Lorenzo dazzled contemporaries with his prodigious talents and magnetic personality. Known to history as Il...
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History of the Florentine People Volume 3
by Leonardo Bruni Publisher Comments Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444), the leading civic humanist of the Italian Renaissance, served as apostolic secretary to four popes (1405-1414) and chancellor of Florence (1427-1444). He was famous in his day as a translator, orator, and historian, and was...
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Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy
by Sarah Bradford Publisher Comments The most notorious woman of the Renaissance as seen in a dazzling new light by a New York Times bestselling biographer. The very name Lucrezia Borgia conjures up everything that was sinister and corrupt about the Renaissance — incest, political...
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The Likeness of Venice: A Life of Doge Francesco Foscari, 1373-1457
by Dennis Romano Publisher Comments Immortalized in later centuries in works by Lord Byron, Giuseppe Verdi, Eugène Delacroix, and others, Francesco Foscari reigned as the powerful doge of Venice during tumultuous years from 1423 to 1457. The stuff of legends, his life was marked by...
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History of Venice Volume 1 Books I IV
by Pietro Bembo Publisher Comments Pietro Bembo (1470 — 1547), a Venetian nobleman, later a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, was the most celebrated Latin stylist of his day and was widely admired for his writings in Italian as well. His early dialogue on the subject of love...
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Poems and Selected Letters (Other Voice in Early Modern Europe)
by Veronica Franco Publisher Comments Veronica Franco (whose life is featured in the motion picture Dangerous Beauty) was a sixteenth-century Venetian beauty, poet, and protofeminist. This collection captures the frank eroticism and impressive eloquence that set her apart from the chaste...
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The Italian Renaissance
by J H Plumb Publisher Comments A definitive overview of Renaissance-era Italy....
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Il Gigante: Michelangelo, Florence, and the David 1492-1504
by Anton Gill Publisher Comments British Praise for Il Gigante: "There is certainly nothing rushed about this excellent account of the world's greatest sculptor... Through Gill's sensitive and accessible reading of the David in particular we can perhaps feel a little closer to...
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Amalia's Tale: A Poor Peasant, an Ambitious Attorney, and a Fight for Justice
by David I Kertzer Publisher Comments This quintessential David-and-Goliath saga tells the story of a wholly unexpected triumph of the poor against the rich and of a crusading city attorney who fought on behalf of an impoverished peasant. Amalia Bagnacavalli, an illiterate young peasant from...
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