Daily Life in Renaissance Italy, 2nd Edition, Hardcover - Elizabeth S. Cohen

Reducere. Lively and reader-friendly, this second edition of Daily Life in Renaissance Italy provides a colorful and accurate sense of how it felt to inhabit...

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

This invaluable collection explores the many faces of murder and its cultural presences across the Italian peninsula in the Renaissance. Dealing wi...

Family was a central feature of social life in Italian cities. This wide-ranging volume explores patrimony in legal thought and how family property...

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

Lucrezia Borgia's name has echoed through history as a byword for evil - a poisoner who committed incest with her natural father, Pope Alexander VI...

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. DescriptionThe Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice and vicious cruelty--all have been as...

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...

Political life in Renaissance Italy was held together by principles which underlay, or were used to justify, political proposals and decisions in p...

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

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A bold, revisionist account of the political thought of the Italian Renaissance--from Petrarch to Machiavelli--that reveals the all-important role ...

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Despite the fact that the majority of the inhabitants of the Roman Empire lived an agricultural existence and thus resided outside of urban centers...

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

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

Classic study of the condottiere of fifteenth-century Italy.

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

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...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Peter BurkePreface by: Peter BurkeIn this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural h...

Salomone da Sesso was a virtuoso goldsmith in Renaissance Italy. Brought down by a sex scandal, he saved his skin by converting to Catholicism. Tam...

Reducere. The Italian Renaissance marked a period of political and military turmoil. Many regional wars were fought between the states ruled by Milan, Venice...

Reducere. Take a tour through the Bible with pastor-teacher John MacArthur--unleashing God's truth, one verse at a time.TMThe MacArthur Daily Bible takes a p...

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...

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 ...

Reducere. Every devoted genealogist is concerned with citations in their analysis for their genealogy. Accurate citations are necessary so that the evidence ...

A new history uncovers the crucial role women played in the great transformations of medical science and health care that accompanied the Italian R...

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...

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

Explores what life was really like for everyday people in Ancient Benin. Using primary sources and information from archeological discoveries, this...

Reducere. Explores what life was really like for everyday people in Ancient Rome. Using primary sources and information from archeological discoveries, this ...

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...

In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance.