1434. The Year a Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance, Paperback - Gavin Menzies

In his bestselling book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies revealed that it was the Chinese that discovered America, not Colu...

An account of the voyage of Emperor Zhu Di's fleet and the remarkable discoveries they made. The result of 15 years of research, hardback sales hav...

Reducere. In this exhilarating cross between The Da Vinci Code and The Birth of Venus, an irrepressible young woman in 15th-century Italy must flee for her l...

Vernacular poetry in Renaissance Italy was typically created and disseminated by improvising singer-poets. This is the first comprehensive study of...

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Reducere. China's vast and ancient body of documented knowledge about plants includes horticultural manuals and monographs, comprehensive encyclopedias, geog...

A primary mode for the creation and dissemination of poetry in Renaissance Italy was the oral practice of singing and improvising verse to the acco...

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Reducere. On May 15, 2010, after 210 days at sea and more than 22, 000 nautical miles, 16-year-old Jessica Watson sailed her 33-foot boat triumphantly back t...

This extraordinary story is told from the archive documents in the case of Sister Benedetta Carlini, an Abbess who was imprisoned for thirty-five y...

Reducere. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860) is a work of art history by Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt. Recognized today as the founder o...

The bestselling author of 1421: THE YEAR THE CHINESE DISCOVERED THE WORLD uncovers the truth behind the mystery of Atlantis. Updated with thrilling...

For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world ...

The twelve essays in this volume, each written by a leading specialist, present an accessible and comprehensive introduction to Italian Renaissance...

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Reducere. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860) is a work of art history by Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt. Recognized today as the founder o...

An illustrated history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most important patrons - the princely rulers of Italy's dynastic states.Pub...

Tells the history of the modest family which rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe. This title explores the intensely dramatic rise and...

Includes George Puttenham's "Art of English Poesy", Samuel Daniel's "Defense of Rhyme", and passages by writers such as Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon a...

Reducere. The legendary Renaissance math duel that ushered in the modern age of algebraThe Secret Formula tells the story of two Renaissance mathematicians w...

In this fascinating new history, Paul N Balchin provides a comprehensive account of one of the more formative historical periods, uniquely describi...

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Reducere. Reconstructing the activity of the "Tribunal of the Faith" in Italy during the period 1400-1600, this compelling book analyzes the ideology of its ...

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Founded in 1540, the Society of Jesus was instantly popular, attracting thousands of candidates in its first century. Camilla Russell looks to the ...

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Through its examination of the religious paintings by Pontormo, this book offers a new way to understand the fraught relationship between artistic ...

Reducere. For Italian city builders more than a thousand years ago, the urban realm was the great theater where their best aspirations were played out, the p...

Reissue, previously titled }Art And Society In Italy 1350 - 1500{.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 75 bw illusNumber of pages: 232Collection: The Cultural Histories SeriesPublication date: 2022...

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It is a widespread prejudice of modern, scientific society that "magic" is merely a ludicrous amalgam of recipes and methods derived from primitive...

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DescriptionMan and Nature in the Renaissance offers an introduction to science and medicine during the earlier phases of the scientific revolution,...

When a family feud shatters the peace of the sixteenth century Tuscan countryside, a girl is left to wander the forest alone. Years later, in Flore...

When a family feud shatters the peace of the sixteenth century Tuscan countryside, a girl is left to wander the forest alone. In Florence, a former...

The act of eating is a basic human need. Yet, in all societies, quotidian choices regarding food and its consumption reveal deeply rooted shared cu...

Fruits and vegetables as erotic metaphors in still life paintings, the Florentine Baptistry replicated in sausage and cheese by Andrea del Sarto, a...

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Reducere. The Renaissance began in Italy, but it grew out of European civilization, with roots in Antiquity, in Christian dogma, and in Byzantium. The artist...

Reducere. A century since the monarchy was overthrown the country of Albiyon has become a haven for its citizens, the young scholar Adairia included. Raised ...

4th edition. Revised edition, with 200 new illustrations.

Available in English for the first time, Julius von Schlosser's seminal work in the history of art and collecting was the first study to interpret ...

Reducere. First published in 2003, City on Fire is a gripping, intimate account of the explosions of two ships loaded with ammonium nitrate fertilizer that d...

Reducere. Little known Molise and Abruzzo in central Italy was the home of my ancestors, the fearsome and proud ancient Samnites who came down from the Apenn...

Reducere. At seventeen, Bobby Sands was interested in girls, soccer, and music. Ten years later he led his fellow prisoners on a protest against repressive c...

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Titian, one of the most successful painters of the Italian Renaissance, was credited by his contemporaries with painting a miracle-working image, t...

Reducere. Join Carole P. Roman and travel through time to visit the most interesting civilizations throughout history in the first four books of her new seri...