La invención del pueblo

el surgimiento de la soberanía popular en Inglaterra y Estados Unidos

En este libro provocativo, que desafía el sentido común, innova en sus enfoques y propone un camino original para analizar la vida política, los conceptos de pueblo y soberanía popular son presentados por el autor como #ficciones#, artefactos producidos social y culturalmente que resultaron efectivos ...

Lucrezia Borgia

storia e mito

Obiettivo principale del volume è fare il punto su un personaggio bifronte, tuttora associato, nel sentire comune, a intrighi, legami incestuosi e delitti. Di qui la necessità di distinguere tra storia e mito di Lucrezia. Le tre sezioni - Lucrezia e i poeti; I Borgia e ...

Los 7 Borgia

una historia de ambición, refinamiento y perversidad

"Los 7 Borgia" es el resultado de una extraordinaria investigación sobre este poderoso linaje. Amena, pero a la vez, estricta y rigurosa, ésta es una obra que ahonda con precisión histórica a través del tiempo y de las acusaciones de encándalos y perversiones, para desentrañar ...

Talleyrand

le prince immobile

" Je veux que pendant des siècles, on continue à discuter sur ce que j'ai été, ce que j'ai pensé, ce que j'ai voulu. " A lire les injures, les jugements à l'emporte-pièce et les contresens qu'ont commis sur lui presque tous ...

Amerigo

the man who gave his name to America

In 1507 the cartographer Martin Waldseemuller published a world map with a new continent on it which he called America', after the explorer and navigator Amerigo Vespucci. The map was a phenomenal success and when Mercator's 1538 world map extended the name to the ...

Viaje alrededor del mundo

precedido de un naúfrago

Es sabido que Lord Byron, al escribir "El Corsario", se inspiró en la vida de su abuelo, el comodoro John Byron, conocido popularmente en Inglaterra como "Jack, Tiempo de Perros", debido a las extremas condiciones meteorológicas que se desataban al paso de sus navíos. En ...

La France du XVIe siècle

1483-1598

Ce manuel est une excellente synthèse de ce XVIe siècle durant lequel la royauté se consolide, malgré la violence des guerres civiles qui agitent la deuxième partie de ce siècle. L'ouvrage est divisé en deux parties, Le temps de la Renaissance puis Le temps ...

Les letters of Samuel Pepys

The correspondence included here represents the first selection of Pepys's letters, drawn from all possible sources to be published since 1933. Since the Diary does not cover this period, the letters enable the reader to follow Pepys' early career on the staff of the ...

Humanism and the culture of Renaissance Europe

In this updated edition of his classic account, Charles Nauert charts the rise of humanism as the distinctive culture of the social, political and intellectual elites in Renaissance Europe. He traces humanism's emergence in the unique social and cultural conditions of fourteenth- century Italy ...

The biography of the object in late medieval and renaissance Italy

The famous call, made nineteen years ago by Appadurai and Kopytoff, that students of material culture should study the 'social life' of things has, until now, had a limited effect upon students of the Italian Renaissance. The essays in this book - part of the recent ...

The last days of the renaissance

and the march to modernity

A leading Renaissance scholar examines what brought one of history's most fascinating eras to its end and gave rise to the modern era There is little debate that the Renaissance began at the end of the fourteenth century. Its end, though, is much more ...

A companion to the worlds of the Renaissance

The idea of the Renaissance as a period of European cultural triumph in which great men flourished has been largely demolished in the last fifty years. This provocative volume brings together some of the most exciting scholars who led this attack, to suggest different ways ...

La postérité répond à Pétrarque

sept siècle de fortune pétrarquienne en France

« Depuis une quinzaine d#années, on assiste, notamment en France, à un bouillonnement autour de l##uvre méconnue de Pétrarque, principalement néo-latine, celle sur laquelle le poète avait misé son passage à la Postérité et qui en fait était tombée en déshérence. Les éditions avec ...

Cosimo I de' Medici and his self-representation in Florentine Art and culture

from Lofty Ruler to Citizen Prince

In this study, Henk Th. van Veen reassesses how Cosimo de' Medici represented himself in images during the course of his rule. Traditionally, Cosimo is seen to be posing as a republican prince in the images made of him during the early years of his ...

1506. Crónicas europeas

de cómo un viajero conoce a Juana la Loca, Maquiavelo, Miguel Ángel, Leonardo da Vinci, Erasmo, El Bosco...

Vandenzabel hace un viaje por la Europa de 1506. El viejo continente se encuentra en un momento de transición entre la cultura de caballerías y el Renacimiento. Monarcas, pintores, filósofos y papas viven a la sombra del Juicio Final y del Nuevo Hombre.

Bajo el signo de Circe

ensayos sobre el humanismo cívico del Renacimiento italiano e imaginario político de Nicolás Maquiavelo

Esta obra es un trabajo sobre ese imaginario que, cargado de mito y utopía, de realidad y de ensueño habla de los dos sentidos humanos que hacen caminar y cambiar la historia. A partir de allí, Jorge Velázquez, nos muestra cómo se descubre el juego ...

Creating East and West

Renaissance humanists and the Ottoman turks

As the Ottoman Empire advanced westward from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, humanists responded on a grand scale, leaving behind a large body of fascinating yet understudied works. These compositions included Crusade orations and histories; ethnographic, historical, and religious studies of the Turks; epic ...

The worlds of renaissance melancholy

Robert Burton in context

Angus Gowland investigates the theory of melancholy and its many applications in the Renaissance by means of a wide-ranging contextual analysis of Robert Burton's encyclopaedic Anatomy of Melancholy (first published in 1621). Approaching the Anatomy as the culmination of early modern medical, philosophical and ...

Cicerón y la cultura artística del Renacimiento

Contiene ilustraciones. Este libro trata, en definitiva, de la historia de las ideas, su difusión y migración a contextos culturales distintos, aplicada a ciertos conceptos artísticos.

The formation of clerical and confessional identities in early modern Europe

The 24 essays in this volume explore the formation of clerical and confessional identities in early modern Europe from three angles. The first part of the book focuses on education and theological training, the second on the interpretation of Scripture and preaching, and the third ...