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Author: Catherine B. Avery
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 1972-06
Total Pages: 978
ISBN-13: 9780136120513
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescriptions of literary works and characters and biographical material on important artists of the three-hundred-year period
Author: Moderata Fonte
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2007-11-01
Total Pages: 525
ISBN-13: 0226256790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first original chivalric poem written by an Italian woman, Floridoro imbues a strong feminist ethos into a hypermasculine genre. Dotted with the usual characteristics—dark forests, illusory palaces, enchanted islands, seductive sorceresses—Floridoro is the story of the two greatest knights of a bygone age: the handsome Floridoro, who risks everything for love, and the beautiful Risamante, who helps women in distress while on a quest for her inheritance. Throughout, Moderata Fonte (1555–92) vehemently defends women’s capacity to rival male prowess in traditionally male-dominated spheres. And her open criticism of women’s lack of education is echoed in the plights of various female characters who must depend on unreliable men. First published in 1581, Floridoro remains a vivacious and inventive narrative by a singular poet.
Author: Ben P Robertson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-08-01
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 1040233546
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Moore was a Scottish physician who travelled extensively and wrote immensely popular accounts of these, which brought him international fame. Despite this, his travel writings have not been available since 1820. This collection will be the first in almost two centuries to present his Travel Writings to historians and literary scholars.
Author: Paul F. Grendler
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 554
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKReview: "Conceived and produced in association with the Renaissance society of America, this work presents a panoramic view of the cultural movement and the period of history beginning in Italy from approximately 1350, broadening geographically to include the rest of Europe by the middle-to-late-15th century, and ending in the early 17th century. Each of the nearly 1,200 entries provides a learned and succinct account suitable for inquiring readers at several levels. These readable essays covering the arts and letters, in addition to everyday life, will be appreciated by general readers and high-school students. The thoughtful analyses will enlighten college students and delight scholars. A selective bibliography of primary and secondary sources for further study follows each article."--"Outstanding reference sources 2000", American Libraries, May 2000. Comp. by the Reference Sources Committee, RUSA, ALA.
Author: Pope Pius II
Publisher: CUA Press
Published: 2013-11
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 081322182X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis popular text circulated widely in manuscript form and was printed in several editions between the late 15th and the early 18th centuries, in Latin, German, and Italian. The present volume represents the first time this work has been translated into English, bringing its colorful narrative to the attention of a wider audience. This edition also provides extensive footnotes, an appendix of rulers, and a lengthy introduction to Aeneas?s life and the context and relevance of this work.
Author: Jill Kraye
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-02-23
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780521436243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, humanism played a key role in European culture. Beginning as a movement based on the recovery, interpretation and imitation of ancient Greek and Roman texts and the archaeological study of the physical remains of antiquity, humanism turned into a dynamic cultural programme, influencing almost every facet of Renaissance intellectual life. The fourteen essays in this 1996 volume deal with all aspects of the movement, from language learning to the development of science, from the effect of humanism on biblical study to its influence on art, from its Italian origins to its manifestations in the literature of More, Sidney and Shakespeare. A detailed biographical index, and a guide to further reading, are provided. Overall, The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism provides a comprehensive introduction to a major movement in the culture of early modern Europe.
Author: Juan de Mariana
Publisher: Christian's Library Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 1880595885
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this treatise we find an insightful analysis concerning how monetary debasement and inflation increase prices, which proceeds to illustrate how such increases do not affect everyone equally-in effect, causing a revolution in fortunes. In a parallel argument, Mariana explains how government, if given control of other forms of private property, would also debase the values of those forms and use them according to its own interests.
Author: Christopher Kleinhenz
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 1648
ISBN-13: 135166445X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 2004, Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia provides an introduction to the many and diverse facets of Italian civilization from the late Roman empire to the end of the fourteenth century. It presents in two volumes articles on a wide range of topics including history, literature, art, music, urban development, commerce and economics, social and political institutions, religion and hagiography, philosophy and science. This illustrated, A-Z reference is a cross-disciplinary resource and will be of key interest not only to students and scholars of history but also to those studying a range of subjects, as well as the general reader.
Author: Peter Bondanella
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 734
ISBN-13: 0304704644
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Martín de Azpilcueta
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780739117507
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Sourcebook is a thematically unified collection of seminal texts in the history of economics on the topic of money and exchange relations (cambium)_its nature, purpose, value, and relationship to justice and morality in financial transactions_within the tradition of late-scholastic commercial ethics.
