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  • Florence

    A Traveller's Reader

    by Edward Chaney ...
    'The best conceivable guide to the city' - an essential cultural history for all visitors of FlorenceThe rich and glorious past of one of the best loved cities in the world, Florence, is brought vividly to life for today's visitor in this collection which draws on letters, diaries and memoirs of travellers to Florence and the Florentines themselves.Of all Italian cities, Florence has always had ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Jacobean Grand Tour

    Early Stuart Travellers in Europe

    by Edward Chaney, Timothy Wilks ...
    Although the eighteenth century is traditionally seen as the age of the Grand Tour, it was in fact the continental travel of Jacobean noblemen which really constituted the beginning of the Tour as an institutionalized phenomenon. James I's peace treaty with Spain in 1604 rendered travel to Catholic Europe both safer and more respectable than it had been under the Tudors and opened up the continent ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Evolution of the Grand Tour

    Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations since the Renaissance

    by Edward Chaney ...
    The Grand Tour has become a subject of major interest to scholars and general readers interested in exploring the historic connections between nations and their intellectual and artistic production. Although traditionally associated with the eighteenth century, when wealthy Englishmen would complete their education on the continent, the Grand Tour is here investigated in a wider context, from the ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

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    The opera singer Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci was one of the most famous celebrities of the eighteenth century. In collaboration with the English composer Thomas Arne, he popularized Italian opera, translating it for English audiences and making it accessible with his own compositions which he performed in London's pleasure gardens. Mozart and J. C. Bach both composed for him. He was a rock star of ... Read more

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  • History Play

    The Lives and After-life of Christopher Marlowe

    by Rodney Bolt ...
    What if Christopher Marlowe staged his own death, fled to the Continent and went on to write the works we now attribute to Shakespeare?'About anyone so great as Shakespeare, it is probable that we can never be right; and if we can never be right, it is better that we should from time to time change our way of being wrong.' T. S. EliotMark Twain likened writing the biography of Shakespeare to ... Read more

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  • Caravaggio

    by Helen Langdon ...
    Of all Italian painters, Caravaggio (c. 1565-1609) speaks most intensely to the modern world. His early works suggest a fascination with his own youth and sexuality and the trancience of love and beauty his later religious art speaks of violence, passion, solitude and death. Ugly, almost brutal-looking, Caravaggio was constantly embroiled in fights and entangled with the law; the prototype anti ... Read more

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  • The Stuart Courts

    Edited by Eveline Cruickshanks ...
    The regal courts of the English Stuart Kings, from James I (1603-1625) to the ill-fated James II (1685-1689), were magnificent affairs. In a country otherwise given to increasingly austere Puritan ways of living, the royal court shone with a brilliance usually associated with the courts of the Catholic kings of mainland Europe. They were centres of great culture, patronage, ceremony and politics. ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Companion to English Literature

    Edited by Dinah Birch ...
    Series series Oxford Companions
    The Oxford Companion to English Literature has long been established as the leading reference resource for students, teachers, scholars, and general readers of English literature. It provides unrivalled coverage of all aspects of English literature - from writers, their works, and the historical and cultural context in which they wrote, to critics, literary theory, and allusions. For the seventh ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • In Shakespeare's Shadow

    A Rogue Scholar's Quest to Reveal the True Source Behind the World's Greatest Plays

    by Michael Blanding ...
    The true story of a self-taught sleuth's quest to prove his eye-opening theory about the source of the world's most famous plays, taking readers inside the vibrant era of Elizabethan England as well as the contemporary scene of Shakespeare scholars and obsessives.What if Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare . . . but someone else wrote him first? Acclaimed author of The Map Thief, Michael Blanding ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Global Interests

    Renaissance Art between East and West

    by Lisa Jardine, Jerry Brotton ...
    Series series Picturing History
    In this radical and wide-ranging reassessment of Renaissance art, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine examine the ways in which European culture came to define itself culturally and aesthetically in the years 1450 to 1550. Looking outwards for confirmation of who they were and of what defined them as ‘civilized’, Europeans encountered the returning gaze of what we now call the East, in particular the ... Read more

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  • Buckingham's Man: Balthazar Gerbier, A Renaissance Man in 17th Century England

    by Lita-Rose Betcherman ...
    Buckingham's Man: Balthazar Gerbier, a Renaissance Man in 17th Century England by Lita-Rose Betcherman is a captivating portrait of a forgotten figure who moved at the heart of power, art, and intrigue in Stuart England. Balthazar Gerbier—diplomat, art agent, spy, architect, and courtier—served the powerful Duke of Buckingham and rubbed shoulders with kings, artists, and intellectuals across ... Read more

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  • The Fortunes of the Courtier

    The European Reception of Castiglione's Cortegiano

    by Peter Burke ...
    This book aims to understand the different readings of Castiglione's Cortegiano or Book of the Courtier from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. ... Read more

    $21.00 USD