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  • Speculum Lapidum

    A Renaissance Treatise on the Healing Properties of Gemstones

    by Camillo Leonardi ...
    Translated by Liliana Leopardi ...
    Series series Magic in History
    In early modern Europe precious and semiprecious stones were valued not only for their beauty and rarity but also for their medical and magical properties. Lorenzo de’ Medici, Philip II of Spain, and Popes Leo X and Clement VII were all treated with expensive potions incorporating ground gems such as rubies, diamonds, and emeralds. Medical and magical/astrological lapidaries, texts describing the ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • The Inferno

    A New Verse Translation

    by Dante Alighieri ...
    Translated by Peter Thornton ...
    This enthralling new translation of Dante’s Inferno immediately joins ranks with the very best” (Richard Lansing).One of the world’s transcendent literary masterpieces, the Inferno tells the timeless story of Dante’s journey through the nine circles of hell, guided by the poet Virgil, when in midlife he strays from his path in a dark wood. In this vivid verse translation into contemporary English, ... Read more

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  • Inventing the Renaissance

    The Myth of a Golden Age

    by Ada Palmer ...
    WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARDA New Yorker Best Book of 2025An irreverent new take on the Renaissance, which reveals it as anything but Europe’s golden age.From the darkness of a plagued and war-torn Middle Ages, the Renaissance (we’re told) heralds the dawning of a new world—a halcyon age of art, prosperity, and rebirth. Hogwash! or so says award-winning novelist and historian A... ... Read more

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  • Inventing the Enemy

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    by Umberto Eco ...
    This essay collection by the revered public intellectual displays his " profound erudition, lively wit, and passion for ideas of all shapes and sizes" ( Booklist).In these fourteen essays, Umberto Eco examines many of the ideas that have inspired his provocative and illuminating fiction. From the title essay—a disquisition of the notion that every country needs an enemy—he takes readers on an ... Read more

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  • Galileo's Telescope

    A European Story

    by Massimo Bucciantini, Michele Camerota, Franco Giudice ...
    Translated by Catherine Bolton ...
    An innovative exploration of the development of a revolutionary optical device and how it changed the world.Between 1608 and 1610 the canopy of the night sky changed forever, ripped open by an object created almost by accident: a cylinder with lenses at both ends. Galileo's Telescope tells the story of how an ingenious optical device evolved from a toy-like curiosity into a precision scientific ... Read more

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  • Reading Dante

    From Here to Eternity

    by Prue Shaw ...
    The best and most eloquent introduction to Dante for our time.Prue Shaw is one of the world's foremost authorities on Dante. Written with the general reader in mind, Reading Dante brings her knowledge to bear in an accessible yet expert introduction to his great poem.This is far more than an exegesis of Dante’s three-part Commedia. Shaw communicates the imaginative power, the linguistic skill and ... Read more

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  • Mysteries of Templar Treasure & the Holy Grail: The Secrets of Rennes Le Chateau

    The Secrets of Rennes Le Chateau

    by Fanthrope, Lionel & Patricia; Wallace-Murphy, Tim ...
    Next to Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland, no other place on Earth holds as much esoteric symbolism as France's Rennes le Ch'teau. Its location and design are the subjects of countless rumors, myths, and legends. Mysteries of Templar Treasure and the Holy Grail, formerly published as The Secrets of Rennes le Chateau, delves into the reality behind the action and adventure of The Da Vinci Code. Rennes le ... Read more

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  • The Latin Inscriptions of Rome

    A Walking Guide

    by Tyler Lansford ...
    A collection of 15 guided walking tours of the ancient Latin descriptions found throughout Rome.Rome's oldest known Latin inscription dates from the sixth century BC; the most recent major specimen was mounted in 2006—a span of more than two and a half millennia. Remarkably, many of these inscriptions are still to be found in situ, on the walls, gates, temples, obelisks, bridges, fountains, and ... Read more

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    "Ingrid D. Rowland brings before us today the pieces of an extraordinary sixteenth-century life . . . This is intellectual biography at its best." —Peter N. Miller, The New RepublicGiordano Bruno is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowland's pathbreaking life of Bruno establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and ... Read more

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  • The Night Battles

    Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

    by Carlo Ginzburg ...
    Translated by John Tedeschi, Anne C. Tedeschi, Stephen Twilley ...
    The classic study of witchcraft and popular belief, newly revisited.A landmark of microhistory, The Night Battles remains one of the most daring and influential investigations of witchcraft and popular belief in early modern Europe. Through meticulous research in the inquisitorial archives of northern Italy, Carlo Ginzburg reconstructs the story of the benandanti—the "good walkers"—peasants of the ... Read more

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  • Mystical Origins of the Tarot

    From Ancient Roots to Modern Usage

    by Paul Huson ...
    A profusely illustrated history of the occult nature of the tarot from its origins in ancient Persia• Thoroughly examines the original historical source for each tarot card and how the cards’ divinatory meanings evolved from these symbols• Provides authentic 18th- and 19th-century spreads and divination techniques• Reveals the divinatory meanings of the cards as understood by diviners in the ... Read more

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