Princes of the Renaissance

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

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

Reducere. In Ars Theurgia Goetia, English alchemist and sorceror Gary Nottingham presents a precise and practical guide to working with the versatile spirits...

Reducere. It is the height of the Renaissance. The "princes" of the states which 400 years later will be united into the country of Italy are trying to maint...

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

This book brings together a bold revision of the traditional view of the Renaissance with a new comparative synthesis of global empires in early mo...

The Education of a Christian Prince is one of the most important 'advice-to-princes' texts published in the Renaissance and was dedicated to Charle...

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

Reducere. Dr. John Dee, England's most famous Renaissance magus, spent seven years working with scryer Edward Kelley in the late sixteenth century. Together ...

Reducere. The Son of Man shall chooseWhen the time returns for the Poet Prince.He will inspire the hearts and minds of the peopleSo as to illuminate the path...

- Documents an exhibition on art and the education of children in Mechelen during the Habsburg Empire- Offers insight into educational values ​​and...

``The Penguin History of Europe series... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects.``--New Statesman It was an age of hope and possibilit...

Reducere. The illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II, Felice della Rovere became one of the most powerful and accomplished women of the Italian Renaissance....

In this fascinating study, Alison Cole explores the distinctive uses of art at the five great secular courts of Naples, Urbino, Ferrara, Mantua, an...

Irving Stone's powerful and passionate biographical novel of Michelangelo. His time: the turbulent Renaissance, the years of poisoning princes, war...

Reducere. DescriptionThis new edition of the acclaimed translation of Niccol Machiavelli's The Prince - revised for the first time after thirty years - inclu...

Reducere. DescriptionThe history of possibly the most notorious dynasty in papal history is revealed in a new narrative from the author of "The Medici: Rise ...

Reducere. Just as the Reformation was a movement of intertwined theological and political aims, many individual authors of the time shifted back and forth be...

DescriptionPowerful and disturbing, this version of the Hamlet story is set in a modern Middle Eastern state whose leader has just died, to be repl...

Reducere. The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise, by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccol Machiavelli. From correspondence a version a...

Reducere. The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise, by the Italian diplomat and political theorist, Niccol Machiavelli. From correspondence a version ...

A richly detailed graveyard history of the Florentine poet whose dead body shaped Italy from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the Risorgiment...

Reducere. Michelangelo is universally recognized to be one of the greatest artists of all time. In this vividly written biography, William E. Wallace offers ...

Reducere. Ruler of Florence for seven bloody years, 1531 to 1537, Alessandro de' Medici was arguably the first person of color to serve as a head of state in...