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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
by Ross King  
Publisher Comments Anyone alive in Florence on August 19, 1418, would have understood the significance of the competition announced that day concerning the city’s magnificent new cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore, already under construction for more than a century...
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Brunelleschi's Dome (00 Edition)
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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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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The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
by Carlo Ginzburg Synopsis "A wonderful book... Ginzburg is a historian with an insatiable curiosity, who pursues even the faintest of clues with all the zest of a born detective until every fragment of evidence can be fitted into place." -- New York Review of Books...
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Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon
by Andrea Di Robilant Publisher Comments From the acclaimed author of A Venetian Affair comes the vivid and dramatic story of the fall of Venice and the rise of a new age during the tumultuous Napoleonic period, as seen through the eyes of his great-great-great-great-grandmother. In 1787, Lucia,...
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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...
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The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall
by Christopher Hibbert Publisher Comments It was a dynasty with more wealth, passion, and power than the houses of Windsor, Kennedy, and Rockefeller combined. It shaped all of Europe and controlled politics, scientists, artists, and even popes, for three hundred years. It was the house of Medici,...
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The Pope's Daughter: The Extraordinary Life of Felice Della Rovere
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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April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici
by Lauro Martines Publisher Comments One of the world's leading historians of Renaissance Italy brings to life here the vibrant--and violent--society of fifteenth-century Florence. His disturbing narrative opens up an entire culture, revealing the dark side of Renaissance man and politician...
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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 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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Lucrezia Borgia
by Maria Bellonci Publisher Comments Although Lucrezia Borgia was a daughter of Pope Alexander VI and chiefly remembered as a raven-haired poisoner, Bellonci depicts a passionate woman moving uncertainly through the papal court and the intrigues, ambitions, and political chicanery that...
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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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Venice: Lion City: The Religion of Empire
by Garry Wills Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p.[373]-397) and index....
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Florence: The Golden Age, 1138-1737
by Gene Brucker Synopsis 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 Ren
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 City of Florence: Historical Vistas and Personal Sightings
by R W B Lewis Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book In this deeply personal and learned labor of love, R.W.B. Lewis provides a new look at the glories of Florence, the smallish Tuscan city which has been a prime source for modern Western culture and which has also been his...
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April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici
by Lauro Martines Publisher Comments This study of Harsha of Sthanv-isvara and Kanauj explores the impact a ruler and his times have on each other and examines the era as part of a continuous political tradition both in its ideological and practical aspects....
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Living on the Edge in Leonardo's Florence: Selected Essays
by Gene Adam Brucker Synopsis "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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