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The Duke and the Stars
Astrology and Politics in Renaissance Milan
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
The Duke and the Stars explores science and medicine as studied and practiced in fifteenth-century Italy, including how astrology was taught in relation to astronomy. It illustrates how the “predictive art” of astrology was often a critical, secretive source of information for Italian Renaissance rulers, particularly in times of crisis.
by Nicholas Scott Baker
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
In the middle decades of the sixteenth century, the republican city-state of Florence--birthplace of the Renaissance--failed. In its place the Medici family created a principality, becoming first dukes of Florence and then grand dukes of Tuscany. The Fruit of Liberty examines how this transition occurred...
by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Count Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (24 February 1463 17 November 1494) was a renowned Italian Renaissance philosopher despite his early death. At the age of 23, he proposed to defend 900 theses on religion, philosophy, natural philosophy and magic against all comers, for which he wrote the famous Oration...
Die wichtigsten Werke von Jacob Burckhardt
Reisebilder aus dem Süden, Briefe, Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien, Weltgeschichtliche Betrachtungen, Der Cicerone, Die Zeit Constantins des Großen, E Hämpfeli Lieder & Autobiographische Schriften
Language: German
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Diese Ausgabe der Werke von Jacob Christoph Burckhardt wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Dieses eBook ist mit interaktiven Inhalt und Begleitinformationen versehen, einfach zu navigieren und gut gegliedert. Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (1818-1897) war ein Schweizer...
by Daniel Russell
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1995
The emblem and the device (or impresa as it was called in Italy) were the most direct and telling manifestations of a mentality that played a significant role in the discourse and art in Western Europe between the late Middle Ages and the mid-eighteenth century. In the history of Western symbolism,...
by Susan Byrne
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
As the first translator of Plato’s complete works into Latin, the Florentine writer Marsilio Ficino (1433–99) and his blend of Neoplatonic and Hermetic philosophy were fundamental to the intellectual atmosphere of the Renaissance. In Spain, his works were regularly read, quoted, and referenced,...
The Race of Time
Three Lectures on Renaissance Historiography
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
Professor Baker recounts and analyses the relations of the English Renaissance historians to other writers of their time and to the historians of later ages. Supported and enlivened with a wealth of quotation from the historians themselves, their critics and their colleagues, The Race of Time illuminates...
The Venetian Qur'an
A Renaissance Companion to Islam
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
An anonymous book appeared in Venice in 1547 titled L'Alcorano di Macometto, and, according to the title page, it contained "the doctrine, life, customs, and laws [of Mohammed] . . . newly translated from Arabic into the Italian language." Were this true, L'Alcorano di Macometto would have...
Machiavelli and Political Conspiracies
The Struggle for Power in the Italian Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
The theme of conspiracy is central to Machiavelli's writing. His work offers observations and analysis of conspiracy as part of the armoury of the Renaissance politician. Surprisingly, the theme has not yet received the attention it merits. This volume corrects an interpretation which reduces Machiavelli's...
by David Hannay
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
The general rules by which this series is governed have been fully stated by the Editor in the first published volume, The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory. It will therefore not be necessary for me to do more than endeavour to justify the particular application of them in this book....
Plague, Print, and the Reformation
The German Reform of Healing, 1473–1573
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This book surveys a neglected set of sources, German plague prints and treatises published between 1473 and 1573, in order to explore the intertwined histories of plague, print, medicine and religion during the Reformation era. It argues that a particularly German reform of healing flourished in printed...
by Camille Bonnard
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Maidens in tasseled gowns and elaborate headpieces. Jousting knights in armor with swords and breastplates. Young men in flowing robes and wide-brimmed hats, others on horseback with decorative trappings. This superb collection displays a detailed gallery of costumes worn in the eleventh through fifteenth...
by Frederick Bewsher
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
The purpose of this volume is to supply several of those documents which are of great historical importance, and which, at present, find no place in the series of documents published by the Oxford University Press. Further, while most of the more important historical events are dealt with, an attempt...
by Joseph P. Byrne
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Examining a 300-year period that encompasses the Scientific Revolution, this engrossing book offers a fresh and clearly organized discussion of the human experience of health, medicine, and health care, from the Age of Discovery to the era of the French Revolution.
• Photographs and illustrations...