Lucrezia Borgia. Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy, Paperback - Sarah Bradford

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...

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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...

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...

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Nascuta in familia cu cea mai proasta reputatie din Roma, fiica unui papa plin de pacate, tanara Lucrezia duce o viata presarata cu violente si tra...

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Lucrezia Borgia is among the most fascinating and controversial personalities of the Renaissance. This biography by German historian Ferdinand Greg...

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

Alchemist V is a novel that reveals the true identity of V and his amazing powers. It is a story of intrigue, suspense and paranormal mystery, with...

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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...

Elizabeth II has lived through Abdication, the Blitz and World War Two, the sex and spy scandals of the swinging sixties, the Cold War and the nucl...

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The bestselling author and historian Lisa Hilton picks up the mythical 'City of Ladies' where the medieval writer Christine de Pisan left off, cont...

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

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 ...

Seeing Renaissance Glass explores how artists such as Giotto, Duccio, Nicola Pisano, Simone Martini, and others employed the medium of glass-whethe...

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

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

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

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

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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...

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

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

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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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The Clerk of Oxford's unnerving tale of mystery and murder from Paul Doherty's exceptional Canterbury pilgrimage series

King George VI reigned through taxing times. Acceding to the throne upon his brother's abdication, he was immediately confronted with the turmoil i...

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...

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...

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The first Lent book from the Bishop of London, exploring the ways in which we can live the Christian life to the full today.

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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 ...