Manuel Filiberto

Duque de Saboya y general de España

En la Europa del Quinientos, donde hace estragos la guerra entre Francia y España por la hegemonía continental, el ducado de Saboya se ha convertido en un campo de batalla de las dos superpotencias. Su salvación depende de un joven príncipe, Manuel Filiberto, quien decide ...

Viaje de las Indias Orientales y Occidentales

año 1606

Con tan sólo dieciocho años se embarca el alférez Miguel de Jaque de los Ríos de Manzanedo en el puerto de Sanlúcar de Barrameda para recorrer las Indias. Corría el año de 1592 y los dos viajes que realiza el intrépido joven, primero por las ...

In search of Captain Cook

exploring the man through his own words

Captain James Cook was the greatest explorer of his age, perhaps of any age. He was a leader of men, a master voyager who journeyed to unknown places, a seeker of knowledge who commanded three demanding scientific expeditions. He and his crews had encounters with ...

How Taiwan became chinese

dutch, spanish, and han colonization in the Seventeenth Century

1 Taiwan on the eve of colonization 23 2 A scramble for influence 40 3 Pax Hollandica 63 4 La isla hermosa : the rise of the Spanish colony in northern Taiwan 80 5 The fall of Spanish Taiwan 100 6 The birth of co-colonization 115 ...

The atlantic world 1450-2000

This ambitious work provides an overview of the Atlantic world, since the 15th century, by exploring the major themes that define the study of this region. Contact with Europeans in Africa and the Americas, the slave trade, gender and race in the early Atlantic world ...

Venetians in Constantinople

nation, identity, and coexistence in the early modern mediterranean

Historian Eric R Dursteler reconsiders identity in the early modern world to illuminate Veneto-Ottoman cultural interaction and coexistence, challenging the model of hostile relations and suggesting instead a more complex understanding of the intersection of cultures. Although dissonance and strife were certainly part of this ...

Circulación de personas e intercambios comerciales en el Mediterráneo y en el Atlántico (siglos XVI, XVII, XVIII)

Dir., José Antonio Martínez Torres; Traducción castellana de los capítulos 2 y 7 de José Antonio Martínez Torres, y revisión técnica de los capítulos 1 y 3. Este libro, obra de nueve reputados especialistas internacionales en el Mediterráneo y en el de la Temprana Edad ...

Manuel Filiberto

Duque de Saboya y general de España

En la Europa del Quinientos, donde hace estragos la guerra entre Francia y España por la hegemonía continental, el ducado de Saboya se ha convertido en un campo de batalla de las dos superpotencias. Su salvación depende de un joven príncipe, Manuel Filiberto, quien decide ...

Portuguese colonial cities in the early modern world

Ed., Liam Matthew Brockey. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Portuguese Colonial Cities in the Early Modern World is a collection of essays on the cities of the Portuguese empire written by the leading scholars in the field. The volume, like the empire it analyzes, has a global scope and a ...

Evangelización y prestigio. Primeros encuentros entre España y Corea

Este libro es el resultado de una investigación sobre los episodios más relevantes que durante los últimos cuatro siglos y medio estimularon el interés de España por Corea. En él se desgranan con detalle todas aquellas circunstancias que rodearon estos primeros encuentros entre ambos países.

Viajes a las regiones interiores de África

Nunca hubiera imaginado el joven médico escocés David Livingstone cuando en 1840 se embarcó hacia África del Sur para enseñar el evangelio en aquellas colonias, que se iba a convertir en uno de los exploradores más admirados de nuestra civilización. Sus diecisiete primeros años en ...

Lives of the Popes. Volume 1: Antiquity

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 30)

Bartolomeo Platina (1421- 1481), historian, political theorist, and author of a best-selling cookbook, began life as a mercenary soldier and ended it as the head of the Vatican Library. A papal official under the humanist Pope Pius II, he was a member of the humanist ...

History of Venice. Volume 2: Books V-VIII

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 32)

Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), a venetian nobleman, later a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, was the most celebrated Latin stylist of his day and was widely admired for his writings in Italian as well. His early dialogue on the subject of love greatly influenced the ...

Essays and dialogues

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 31)

From humble beginnings, Bartolomeo Scala (1430-1497) trained in the law and rose to prominence as a leading citizen of Florence, serving as secretary and treasurer to the Medicis and chancellor of the Guelf party before becoming first chancellor of Florence, a post he held for ...

Writings on Church and Reform

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 33)

Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), widely considered the most important original philosopher of the Renaissance, was born in Kues on the Moselle River. A polymath who studied canon law and became a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, he wrote principally on speculative theology, philosophy, and ...

Renaissance Florence

a social history

This book examines the social history of Florence during the critical period of its growth and development in the early modern period, from the fourteenth through to sixteenth centuries. Treating the city, its art, and its rituals, the contributors to this volume consider well-known objects ...

L´Alliance impie

François Ier et Soliman le Magnifique contre Charles Quint: (1529-1547)

L#alliance nouée par François Ier avec le sultan ottoman Soliman le Magnifique fait scandale à l#époque : les Turcs mènent alors la dernière et la plus dangereuse percée d#une puissance islamique au c#ur de l#Europe chrétienne. Encore faut-il replacer cette collusion ...

Florencia insurgente

Traducción, presentación y notas de Félix Fernández Murga; Epílogo de Gene A. Brucker. Las páginas que recorren esta historia de Florencia durante la baja Edad Media estan dedicadas a la creciente y 'lamentable' corrupción que experimentó la ciudad y como su maligna influencia encontró caldo ...

Poems

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 35)

Cristoforo Landino (1424-1498), one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance, is best known today for his Platonizing commentaries on Dante and Virgil. His most substantial work of poetry was his Three Books on Xandra, written while still a young man. They consist primarily of ...

Translatio or The transmission of culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

modes and messages

Edited by Laura H. Hollengreen. This volume presents an impressive array of instances of cultural translation between nations, religions, languages, genres, and media. It spans a chronological period that extends from late antiquity to the sixteenth century.