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  • The Professor of Secrets

    Mystery, Medicine, and Alchemy in Renaissance Italy

    de William Eamon ...
    In the tradition of Galileo's Daughter and Brunelleschi's Dome, this exciting story illuminates the captivating world of the late Renaissance—in this case its plagues, remedies, and alchemy—through the life of Leonardo Fioravanti, a brilliant, remarkably forward-thinking, and utterly unconventional doctor. Fioravanti's marvelous cures and talent for self-aggrandizement earned him the adoration of ... Leer más

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  • Visual Cultures of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe

    Series series Early Modern Studies
    Secrets in all their variety permeated early modern Europe, from the whispers of ambassadors at court to the emphatically publicized books of home remedies that flew from presses and booksellers’ shops. This interdisciplinary volume draws on approaches from art history and cultural studies to investigate the manifestations of secrecy in printed books and drawings, staircases and narrative ... Leer más

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  • Science and the Secrets of Nature

    Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

    de William Eamon ...
    By explaining how to sire multicolored horses, produce nuts without shells, and create an egg the size of a human head, Giambattista Della Porta's Natural Magic (1559) conveys a fascination with tricks and illusions that makes it a work difficult for historians of science to take seriously. Yet, according to William Eamon, it is in the "how-to" books written by medieval alchemists, magicians, and ... Leer más

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  • Il Professore di Segreti

    Mistero, medicina e alchimia nell’Italia del Rinascimento

    Ambientato nell’Italia del tardo Rinascimento, questo “thriller storico” esplora la medicina e la cultura dell’epoca attraverso la vicenda biografica del primo “medico delle celebrità”, Leonardo Fioravanti. William Eamon – che per questo libro è stato candidato al Premio Pulitzer – segue i numerosi viaggi di Fioravanti attraverso l’Italia e l’Europa, guidandoci in un mondo in cui medici, maghi, ... Leer más

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  • The Borgias

    The Hidden History

    de G. J. Meyer ...
    An unprecedented portrait of the Renaissance-era Borgia family and their storied milieu, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Tudors“A vivid and at times startling reappraisal of one of the most notorious dynasties in history . . . If you thought you knew the Borgias, this book will surprise you.”—Tracy Borman, author of Queen of the Conqueror and Elizabeth’s Women“Fascinating . . . a ... Leer más

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  • Complete Works of Raphael (Delphi Classics)

    Series Libro 13 - Delphi Masters of Art
    Celebrated for his clarity of form, ease of composition and the sublime beauty of his ‘Madonnas’, Raphael is the epitome of the High Renaissance genius. In spite of his untimely death, he left behind a large body of work that would have a monumental influence on the course of art in the ensuing centuries. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing ... Leer más

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  • Michelangelo and artworks

    Michelangelo, like Leonardo, was a man of many talents; sculptor, architect, painter and poet, he made the apotheosis of muscular movement, which to him was the physical manifestation of passion. He moulded his draughtsmanship, bent it, twisted it, and stretched it to the extreme limits of possibility. There are not any landscapes in Michelangelo's painting. All the emotions, all the passions, all ... Leer más

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  • April Blood

    Florence and the Plot against the Medici

    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

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  • Sandro Botticelli And Simonetta Vespucci In Renaissance Florence, Italy

    Sandro Botticelli and Simonetta Vespucci depend upon one another for their fame in many respects. The Genoan beauty who came to Florence as a teenager was the subject of many of Botticelli's paintings, including his masterpiece, The Birth of Venus. Had there been no Simonetta Botticelli might have ended up with lesser fame as did Ghirlandaio, his contemporary. Likewise, if not for Sandro ... Leer más

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  • Fire in the City

    Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence

    A gripping and beautifully written narrative that reads like a novel, Fire in the City presents a compelling account of a key moment in the history of the Renaissance, illuminating the remarkable man who dominated the period, the charismatic Girolamo Savonarola. Lauro Martines, whose decades of scholarship have made him one of the most admired historians of Renaissance Italy, here provides a ... Leer más

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  • The Italian City-Republics

    Now in its fifth edition, The Italian City Republics illustrates how, from the eleventh century onwards, many Italian towns achieved independence as political entities, unhindered by any centralising power. Until the fourteenth century, when the regimes of individual ‘tyrants’ took over in most towns, these communes were the scene of a precocious, and very well-documented, experiment in republican ... Leer más

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