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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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The Devil's Broker: Seeking Gold, God, and Glory in Fourteenth- Century Italy
by Frances St Saunders Publisher Comments This is the story of an age when everything had a price and mercenary companies were vastly rich corporations. By alternately besieging and protecting the richest pickings in Europe--Florence, Milan, Siena, and Pisa--John Hawkwood became the most wily...
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Venice: Lion City: The Religion of Empire
by Garry Wills Publisher Comments Garry Wills's Venice: Lion City is a tour de force -- a rich, colorful, and provocative history of the world's most fascinating city in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when it was at the peak of its glory. This was not the city of decadence...
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Venice: Lion City: The Religion of Empire
by Garry Wills Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p.[373]-397) and index....
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The Cardinal's Hat: Money, Ambition, and Everyday Life in the Court of a Borgia Prince
by Mary Hollingsworth Publisher Comments Hollingsworth reveals the fascinating story of how Ippolito Este, the second son of Lucretia Borgia, acquired the coveted cardinal's hat and became the Archbishop of Milan....
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Ruskin's Rose: A Venetian Love Story
by Ann Field Publisher Comments Venice can be a dangerous place for a man's emotions--particularly at Christmas, particularly if he's the grief-stricken art historian John Ruskin. In 1876, a year after the death of his clandestine love, Rose La Touche, Ruskin arrived in the city of...
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Florence: The Golden Age, 1138-1737
by Gene Brucker Publisher Comments Over the centuries many thousands of visitors have journeyed to Florence to admire the city's great beauty and to marvel at its unique history. In this century Gene Brucker has been one of the city's most knowledgeable admirers. With the historian's...
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Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love & Death In
by Sarah Bradford Publisher Comments Meticulously researched and wonderfully vivid, this is the first biography of the infamous murderess for over sixty years. Published to great acclaim in hardback....
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Living on the Edge in Leonardo's Florence: Selected Essays
by Gene Adam Brucker Publisher Comments "These essays on Renaissance Florence are a tonic to read, as we watch one of the great historians of the period take hold of major questions with never less than a keen intelligence and a masterly imagination."--Lauro Martines, author of "April Blood...
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Glory of Venice: Ten Centuries of Dreams & Inventions
by Daniel Huguenin Synopsis A journey through the mysteries and beauty created in the world's most fascinating city....
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Shipbuilders of the Venetian Arsenal (Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political)
by Robert C Davis Synopsis The master ship builders of seventeenth-century Venice formed part of what was arguably the greatest manufacturing complex in early modern Europe. As many as three thousand masters, apprentices, and laborers regularly worked in the city's enormous...
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Beatrice's Spell: The Enduring Legend of Beatrice Cenci
by Belinda Elizab Jack Publisher Comments A fascinating study of a Renaissance tragedy that has haunted artists and writers through the ages. <BR>Beatrice Cenci was executed under papal decree in Rome in September of 1599. She was said to be sixteen, and hauntingly beautiful. Her crime was...
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Images of Quattrocento Florence : Selected Writings in Literature, History, and Art (00 Edition)
by Stefano U. (ed.) Baldassarri Publisher Comments This anthology provides a panoramic view of fifteenth-century Florence in the words of the city's own citizens and visitors. The fifty-one selections -- many translated into English for the first time -- offer fascinating glimpses into Renaissance...
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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 the Florentine People Volume 2
by Leonardo Bruni Publisher Comments Bruni's History of the Florentine People in twelve books is generally considered the first modern work of history, and was widely imitated by humanist historians for two centuries after its official publication by the Florentine Signoria in 1444. This...
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Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon
by Andrea Di Robilant Publisher Comments The author of the widely praised "A Venetian Affair" gives readers a portrait of history as dazzling drama, in the story of the fall of Venice and the rise of a new age as seen through the eyes of 16-year-old Lucia. 8-page color illustrations....
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Tilt: a Skewed History of the Tower of Pisa
by Nicholas Shrady Publisher Comments In the tradition of "Brunelleschi's Dome," comes a lively and richly informative chronicle of one of the world's most famous--and famously flawed--architectural and cultural icons, all presented in an innovative and striking format. Illustrations....
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Virgins of Venice: Broken Vows and Cloistered Lives in the Renaissance Convent
by Mary Laven Publisher Comments Cambridge historian Laven has created a detailed and dramatic tapestry of resourceful, determined, often passionate women who managed to lead fulfilling lives despite their virtual imprisonment in Venice's 16th-century convents....
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A History of Florence 1200-1575
by John M Najemy Synopsis In this history of Florence, distinguished historian John Najemy discusses all the major developments in Florentine history from 1200 to 1575. Captures Florence's transformation from a medieval commune into an aristocratic republic, territorial state...
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Carlo Sigonio :the changing world of the late Renaissance
by William Mccuaig Book News Annotation McCuaig explores the intellectual turbulence of the late Italian Renaissance through a full examination of the work of one scholar--the humanist Carlo Sigonio (1523-84)--whose insistence on critical methods for reconstructing the past revolutionized...
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