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The Earthly Republic: Italian Humanists on Government and Society
by Benjamin Kohl  Publisher Comments The gradual secularization of European society and culture is often said to characterize the development of the modern world, and the early Italian humanists played a pioneering role in this process. Here Benjamin G. Kohl and Ronald G. Witt, with...
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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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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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The War of the Fists: Popular Culture and Public Violence in Late Renaissance Venice
by Robert C Davis Publisher Comments "The War of the Fists" is a study of 17th-century worker culture in the city of Venice, focusing on the mock battles, or "battagliole", which the town's two popular factions waged on public bridges. Their importance in the city's plebeian life makes...
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Tuscan Countess: The Life and Extraordinary Times of Matilda of Canossa
by Michele K Spike Publisher Comments This is a fast-paced and colorful exploration of the life of Matilda of Canossa (c. 10461115), the woman who loved a pope and was loved by him, successfully defied the Holy Roman Emperor, and changed the map of Europe. A new kind of history, this...
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The Italian Renaissance
by J H Plumb Publisher Comments Spanning an age that witnessed great achievements in the arts and sciences, this definitive overview of the Italian Renaissance will both captivate ordinary readers and challenge specialists. Dr. Plumb's impressive and provocative narrative is...
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History of Venice Volume 2 Books V VIII
by Pietro Bembo Publisher Comments Pietro Bembo (1470andndash;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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Renaissance Florence
by Gene Brucker Publisher Comments In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the city of Florence experienced the most creative period in her entire history. This book is an in-depth analysis of that dynamic community, focusing primarily on the years 1380-1450 in an examination of the...
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Early Modern Italy: 1550-1796 (Short Oxford History of Italy)
by John A Marino Publisher Comments Early Modern Italian history has traditionally been presented in the context of the absence of a unified Italian state, foreign domination and of relative decline to former wealth and power. This new volume calls on a wealth of recent research to portray...
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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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The Boundaries of Eros: Sex Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice
by Guido Ruggiero Review "Extremely welcome for its systematic attempt to squeeze information about changing attitudes to sexuality from the judicial records."--The London Review of Books "As full a picture as can be constructed from the scraps of legal and other documents which...
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The Italian Renaissance in Its Historical Background
by Denys Hay Publisher Comments This book provides a clear picture of what the Renaissance was, what it meant and how it spread. His approach is historical, and he shows the Renaissance as a growing and changing series of attitudes and ideas, rooted firmly in the general history of the...
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Italy in the Central Middle Ages
by David (edt) Abulafia Publisher Comments Incorporating the latest developments in the study of the period, a team of leading international scholars provides a fresh and dynamic picture of a period of great transformation in the political, cultural, and economic life of the Italian peninsula...
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The Art of the Network: Strategic Interaction and Patronage in Renaissance Florence (Politics, History, and Culture)
by Paul D Mclean Publisher Comments Writing letters to powerful people to win their favor and garner rewards such as political office, tax relief, and recommendations was an institution in Renaissance Florence; the practice was an important tool for those seeking social mobility, security,...
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The Montefeltro Conspiracy: A Renaissance Mystery Decoded
by Marcello Simonetta Publisher Comments A brutal murder, a nefarious plot, a coded letter. After five hundred years, the most notorious mystery of the Renaissance is finally solved. The Italian Renaissance is remembered as much for intrigue as it is for art, with papal politics and infighting...
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Fortune is a River: Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli's Magnificent Dream to Change the Course of Florentine History
by Roger D Masters Publisher Comments Few people know that Leonardo da Vinci and Niccol Machiavelli crossed paths when Leonardo worked -- ostensibly as an engineer, possibly as a spy -- in Cesare Borgia's court and Machiavelli was Florence's ambassador there. Soon thereafter, they formed a...
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Venice Reconsidered: The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297-1797
by John Jeffrie Martin Publisher Comments 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 and...
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The Devil's Broker: Seeking Gold, God, and Glory in Fourteenth-Century Italy
by Frances St Saunders Publisher Comments "There were good ways to die,and there were bad ways to die." So begins this effervescent history of an Italy about to shake itself free of the medieval age and move confidently into the Renaissance. First, though, there was an ordeal to pass through...
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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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