The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy [Kindle Edition] 0486121518, 9780486121512

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Penguin Classics) 9781101491492, 1101491493

For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of

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The Age of Criticism: The Late Renaissance in Italy 9781501743443

Sperone Speroni, Ludovico Castelvetro, Francesco Patrizi, Giacopo Mazzoni, Torquato Tasso, and Paolo Beni emerge as lite

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The Culture of Profession in Late Renaissance Italy 9781442681071

If the conventional view is that Italian Renaissance society generally grew more aristocratic in the later period, this

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The Renaissance of Marriage in Fifteenth-Century Italy 9780674271845

Weddings in 15th-century Italian courts were grand, sumptuous affairs, often requiring guests to listen to lengthy orati

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The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy 9781501726842

Concerned about sanitation during a severe bout of plague in Milan, Leonardo da Vinci designed an ideal, clean city. Leo

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The Word in the Church [Kindle Edition]

The Twelfth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the Word of God in the Life and Mission of the Church r

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The Incarnation (Elements in the Philosophy of Religion) [Kindle Edition]

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Speaking Spirits: Ventriloquizing the Dead in Renaissance Italy 9781442623019

In Speaking Spirits, Sherry Roush presents the first systematic study of early modern Italian eidolopoeia.

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The History of Christmas [Kindle Edition]

Almost everyone, no matter their religious affiliations, will have his/her brush with variously shaped and delivered Chr

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The Catechism of Hockey [Kindle Edition] 005

Why does hockey have so many rules? Do we still need to have penalty boxes? Can’t we get rid of offside? And why is prac

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