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.

Commentaries on Plato. Volume 1: Phaedrus and Ion

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 34)

Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. The publication of his Latin translations of the dialogues in 1484 was an intellectual event of the first magnitude, making the Platonic canon accessible to western Europe after the passing ...

Baldo. Volume 2: Books XIII-XXV

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 36)

Teofilo Folengo (1491-1544) was born in Mantua and joined the Benedictine order, but became a runaway monk and a satirist of monasticism. In 1517 he published, under the pseudonym Merlin Cocaio, the first version of his macaronic narrative poem Baldo, later enlarged and elaborated. It ...

La fuerza de la razón

guerra, estado y ciencia en el Renacimiento

La fuerza de la razón. Guerra, estado y ciencia en el renacimiento, de Antonio Campillo, ha sido reeditado en nuestra colección Editum Scientia. Se trata de un libro que hace una genealogía (según el sentido dado por Foucault) de la ciencia moderna, encontrándola en la ...

The economy of Renaissance Florence

Richard A. Goldthwaite, a leading economic historian of the Italian Renaissance, has spent his career studying the Florentine economy. In this magisterial work, Goldthwaite brings together a lifetime of research and insight on the subject, clarifying and explaining the complex workings of Florence's commercial ...

Religion and culture in early modern Europe, 1500-1800

In the pre-industrial societies of early modern Europe, religion was a vessel of fundamental importance in making sense of personal and collective social, cultural and spiritual exercises. Developments from this era had immediate impact on these societies, much of which resonates to the present day ...

Reformation and early modern Europe

a guide to research

Continuing the tradition of historiographic studies, this volume provides an update on research in Reformation and early modern Europe. Written by expert scholars in the field, these eighteen essays explore the fundamental points of Reformation and early modern history in religious studies, European regional studies ...

El Iluminismo Rosacruz

Historia peculiar de una secta que comprende el periodo en el que se tiende el puente entre el Renacimiento y la revolución científica, que a su vez fusiona las tradiciones herméticas de la cábala y la alquimia.

Eradicationg the Devil's minions

anabaptists and witches in reformation Europe

As a religious sect, the Anabaptists were seen to practice unusual rituals and follow an eccentric set of beliefs. One story, for instance, purports that an Anabaptist prophet, claiming to have visited heaven, persuaded his followers to run naked through the streets of Amsterdam. "Eradicating ...

Salvation and globalization in the early jesuit missions

This is the first truly global study of the Society of Jesus's early missions. Up to now historians have treated the early-modern Catholic missionary project as a disjointed collection of regional missions rather than as a single world-encompassing example of religious globalization. Luke Clossey ...

Female Monasticism in Early Modern Europe

an interdisciplinary view

This volume of twelve interdisciplinary essays addresses the multifaceted nature of female religious identity in early modern Europe. By dismantling the boundaries between the academic disciplines of history, art history, musicology and literary studies it offers new cross-cultural readings essential to a more comprehensive understanding ...