Food, Social Politics and the Order of Nature in Renaissance Italy, Paperback - Allen J. Grieco

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 ...

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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...

Classic study of the condottiere of fifteenth-century Italy.

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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Reducere. DescriptionFrom the nature of democracy to our place in the natural world, from intellectual politics to the politics of language, Powers and Prosp...

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...

Hybrid Political Order and the Politics of Uncertainty is the first to critically and comprehensively explore the parallels between the country's e...

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...

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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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The paperback of this fascinating and entertaining social history of politics and alcoholPublisher: PreludeAuthor(s): Ben WrightNumber of pages: 36...

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A New York Times Bestseller As Harry enters his fifth year at wizard school, Lord Voldemort's rise has opened a rift in the wizarding world between...

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

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