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1) Renaissance
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Charts the spread of intellectual and artistic culture across the entire European continent, laying particular emphasis on the importance of the city as an agent of cultural innovation.
Publisher
Scribner's published in association with the Renaissance Society of America
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Contains approximately twelve hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about various aspects of the history and culture of the Renaissance, covering a period that ranges from 1350 through the seventeenth century; and includes maps, genealogical tables, and a chronology.
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Language
English
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Florence, 1480: Guid'Antonio Vespucci is back in town. One man. One clue. One last chance to save the Republic.
Florentine investigator Guid'Antonio Vespucci returns to Italy from a government mission to find his dreams of peace shattered. Marauding Turks have abducted a young girl and sold her into slavery. Equally disturbing, a revered painting of the Virgin Mary is weeping in Guid'Antonio's family church. Are the tears manmade or a sign of...
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Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
Armandrecounts his life starting with the ruined city he lived in as a child, and while he is there, he meets the great vampire Marius who makes him choose between the life he knows, and the mystery and immortality of the life of a vampire.
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English
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Brilliant study of art, life and thought in France and the Netherlands during the 14th and 15th centuries explores the period's splendor and simplicity, courtesy and cruelty, its idyllic vision of life, despair and mysticism, religious, artistic, and practical life, and much more. An invaluable reference for anyone interested in medieval life. 14 illustrations.
Author
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Although renowned for the excellence of its medieval art, the German city of Nuremberg reached the height of its artistic brilliance during the Renaissance. Beginning its ascendancy during the late fifteenth century, by 1500 the city had blossomed into both Germany's preeminent artistic center and one of the foremost cultural centers in all of Europe. Nuremberg was the home of Albrecht Dürer, the greatest Northern Renaissance master, whose creative...
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Language
English
Description
A 17th century Italian nobleman is marooned on an empty ship in this "astonishing intellectual journey by the author of Foucault's Pendulum ( San Francisco Chronicle ). In the year 1643, a violent storm in the South Pacific leaves Roberto della Griva shipwrecked -- on a ship. Swept from the Amaryllis , he has managed to pull himself aboard the Daphne , anchored in the bay of a beautiful island. The ship is fully provisioned, he discovers, but the...
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The essays gathered in this volume demonstrate that studying early modern European literary forgeries is a fascinating cultural adventure" (Lina Bolzoni author of The Gallery of Memory ). This comprehensive study of literary and historiographical forgery goes well beyond questions of authorship. It spotlights the imaginative vitality of forgery and its sinister impact on genuine scholarship. This volume demonstrates that early modern forgery was...
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English
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"A sixteenth-century Jewish woman flees persecution and an abusive marriage in this historical saga from "a brilliant talent" (Jeffery Deaver). When soldiers attack the inhabitants of a Jewish ghetto in sixteenth-century Lithuania, Abigail manages to escape both the attack and her abusive husband, Reuven. She travels over land and sea to Venice, where she settles in another ghetto. Believing Reuven is dead, Abigail falls in love with her widowed neighbour,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
If there is one genre of art that seems to have played a greater role than any other, it is the nude. For at least 30,000 years, humans have represented the naked form in a variety of ways. From the ideal to the real, the romantic to the surrealist, there have been almost no end of works devoted to the unclothed human body. This series - presented by writer and broadcaster Tim Marlow - will examine those artworks, the societies that produced them...
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English
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From the author of Memory and the Mediterranean, a comprehensive history of the Italian city states from 1450 to 1650.
In the fifteenth-century, even before the city-states of the Apennine Peninsula began to coalesce into what would become, several centuries later, a nation, "Italy" exerted enormous influence over all of Europe and throughout the Mediterranean. Its cultural, economic, and political dominance is utterly astonishing and unique in world...
19) Dante
Publisher
Academy Media
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Most notable for his vast poem, The Divine Comedy, Dante's work continues to resonate with audiences today. Filmmaker Malcolm Hossick uncovers the Italian poet's background and his influential work from the Renaissance period.
Author
Publisher
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
"Readable and informative, this major text in Reformation history is a detailed exploration of the many facets of the Reformation, especially its relationship to the Renaissance. Estep pays particular attention to key individuals of the period, including Wycliffe, Huss, Erasmus, Luther, Zwingli, and Calvin. Illustrated with maps and pictures."--
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