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  • Forged in the Shadow of Mars

    Chivalry and Violence in Late Medieval Florence

    de Peter W. Sposato ...
    In Forged in the Shadow of Mars**, Peter W. Sposato traces chivalry's powerful influence on the mentalitè and behavior of a sizeable segment of the elite in late medieval Florence.** He finds that the strenuous knights and men-at-arms of the Florentine chivalric elite—a cultural community comprised of men from both traditional and newly emerged elite lineages—embraced a chivalric ideology that was ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

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  • Magnifico

    The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici

    de Miles J. Unger ...
    Series series An Italian Renaissance History
    A vividly colorful portrait of one of the greatest and most fascinating figures of the Renaissance, Lorenzo de' Medici, focusing on his role as a brilliant—sometimes ruthless—statesman who was responsible for the artistic flowering of Florence, the city where the Renaissance first blossomed.Lorenzo de' Medici—a leading statesman, the uncrowned ruler of Florence during its golden age, a true ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • April Blood

    Florence and the Plot against the Medici

    de Lauro Martines ...
    One of the world's leading historians of Renaissance Italy brings to life here the vibrant--and violent--society of fifteenth-century Florence. His disturbing narrative opens up an entire culture, revealing the dark side of Renaissance man and politician Lorenzo de' Medici. On a Sunday in April 1478, assassins attacked Lorenzo and his brother as they attended Mass in the cathedral of Florence. ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Italian Renaissance

    Culture and Society in Italy

    de Peter Burke ...
    In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions which existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyses the ways of thinking and seeing which characterized this period of extraordinary artistic creativity. Developing a distinctive sociological ... Leer más

    $29.95 USD

  • The Montefeltro Conspiracy

    A Renaissance Mystery Decoded

    de Marcello Simonetta ...
    A brutal murder, a nefarious plot, a coded letter. After five hundred years, the most notorious mystery of the Renaissance is finally solved.The Italian Renaissance is remembered as much for intrigue as it is for art, with papal politics and infighting among Italy’s many city-states providing the grist for Machiavelli’s classic work on take-no-prisoners politics, The Prince. The attempted ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • An Unlikely Prince

    The Life and Times of Machiavelli

    de Niccolo Capponi ...
    In this compelling new biography, historian Niccolò Capponi frees Machiavelli (1469–1527) from centuries of misinterpretation. Exploring the Renaissance city of Florence, where Machiavelli lived, Capponi reveals the man behind the legend. A complex portrait of Machiavelli emerges—at once a brilliantly skillful diplomat and a woefully inept liar; a sharp thinker and an impractical dreamer; a ... Leer más

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  • The Light of Italy

    The Life and Times of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino

    de Jane Stevenson ...
    The story of the Renaissance city and palace of Urbino, and the life of the extraordinary man who created it: Federico da Montefeltro.'Painstakingly researched and yet unfailingly readable' Ross King'An insight into one of Renaissance Italy's most glamorous courts' Catherine Fletcher'The perfect tour guide to the past' Literary Review'A fabulous merging of seductive design with bravura scholarship ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • The Pope's Daughter

    The Extraordinary Life of Felice della Rovere

    de Caroline P. Murphy ...
    The illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II, Felice della Rovere became one of the most powerful and accomplished women of the Italian Renaissance. Now, Caroline Murphy vividly captures the untold story of a rare woman who moved with confidence through a world of popes and princes. Using a wide variety of sources, including Felice's personal correspondence, as well as diaries, account books, and ... Leer más

    $22.79 USD

  • Be Like the Fox

    Machiavelli In His World

    de Erica Benner ...
    “Remarkable, engaging.… Be Like the Fox can be read with pleasure by anyone interested in the craft of politics and the life of ideas.”—New York Times Book ReviewIn the five hundred years since he wrote The Prince, Machiavelli’s name has been linked to tyranny and the doctrine that “the ends justify the means.” But that is not what he stood for. In Be Like the Fox, Erica Benner takes us back to ... Leer más

    $12.29 USD

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  • A Short History of the Italian Renaissance

    de Virginia Cox ...
    Series series Short Histories
    The extraordinary creative energy of Renaissance Italy lies at the heart of modern western culture. This creativity extended far beyond the visual arts and architecture: dress history, dance history, food history, ritual and ceremonial all contributed to this vibrant rebirth. Virginia Cox here explores the material and economic output of the period, from the late 13th to the 16th century, when ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Young Michelangelo

    The Path to the Sistine—A Biography

    de John T. Spike ...
    In this biography, the author of the acclaimed Caravaggio examines the relationships that shaped Michelangelo's first thirty years.In this compelling account, renowned art historian John Spike paints a vivid portrait of one of the world's greatest artists and the places and people—Lorenzo de' Medici, Leonardo, Machiavelli—that inspired and defined his early life and career. Spike's masterful text ... Leer más

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  • Dante

    A Life

    de Alessandro Barbero ...
    Traducido por Allan Cameron ...
    Dante brings the legendary author—and the medieval Italy of his era— to vivid life, describing the political intrigue, battles, culture, and society that shaped his writing.Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy has defined how people imagine and depict heaven and hell for over seven centuries.However, outside of Italy, his other works are not well known, and less still is generally known about the ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD