The Borgias: Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy, Hardcover - Paul Strathern

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

The sensational story of the rise and fall of one of the most notorious families in history, by the author of The Medici.

The sensational story of the rise and fall of one of the most notorious families in history, by the author of The Medici.Illustrations: 2x8pp colou...

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

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

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...

Reducere. The Ugly Renaissance is a delightfully debauched tour of the sordid, gritty reality behind some of the most celebrated artworks and cultural innova...

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

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...

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

Reducere. De la Imperiul Akkadian la America vremurilor moderne, Marire si decadere cartografiaza istoria lumii prin zece imperii majore. Prin prisma lor est...

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...

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. 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...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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

Subtitled, }The Medici, Savronarola & The Battle For The Soul Of The Renaissance{. Looks at 15th century Florence, and the battle between Renaissan...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Reducere. A dazzling new history of the world through ten major empires.

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...

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

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...

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

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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. 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 ...

A dazzling new history of the world through ten major empires.

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...

Marirea si decaderea. O istorie a lumii in zece imperii - Paul Strathern