The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance 0802158528, 9780802158529

The Bookseller of Florence: Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance 9781473561021, 9781784742652, 1473561027

'A marvel of storytelling and a masterclass in the history of the book' WALL STREET JOURNAL The Renaissance i

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The Portrait in Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts

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The Bookseller of Inverness 9781529414196

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The return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence 9780674050327

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The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence 1107043913, 9781107043916

This book offers a major contribution for understanding the spread of the humanist movement in Renaissance Florence. Inv

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The economy of Renaissance Florence 9780801896880, 9780801889820, 9781421400594

Richard A. Goldthwaite, a leading economic historian of the Italian Renaissance, has spent his career studying the Flore

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The Bookseller of Kabul 9866841049, 9789866841040

Two weeks after September 11th, award-winning journalist Åsne Seierstad went to Afghanistan to report on the conflict th

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The mythological origins of Renaissance Florence: the city as New Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem 9781316510957, 9781009039116

In this book, Irina Chernetsky examines how humanists, patrons, and artists promoted Florence as the reincarnation of th

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Household and Lineage in Renaissance Florence: The Family Life of the Capponi, Ginori and Rucellai 9781400869756

Professor Kent is concerned with one of the major questions posed by historical research on the later Middle Ages and th

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Orpheus in the Marketplace: Jacopo Peri and the Economy of Late Renaissance Florence 9780674726574

This record of Florentine musician Jacopo Peri's wide-ranging investments and activities in the marketplace enables

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