Women in Italy 1350-1650

ideals and realities: a sourcebook

Fills a gap in the still burgeoning literature on all aspects of women's lives in this period; A broad range of material is used, most of which has never been translated before; The three sections of the book provide a comprehensive account of all ...

Nationalism

history and theory

Nations and nationalism have shaped the world we know today, and yet they have consistently confounded attempts at systematic analysis. Lawrence examines the historiography of nationalism from 1850 to the present day to discover why the almost ubiquitous phenomena of nations and nationalism have proved ...

Maquiavelo

El internacionalmente reconocido historiador Marcel Brion plasma la Florencia del Renacimiento, sus vínculos con Italia y Europa, la mercantilización del poder, la corrupción de la democracia como sistema para acceder al gobierno, la aparición de una clase social que considera la guerra como un sistema ...

Frontiers of Ottoman studies

state, province and the west

Frontiers of Ottoman Studies provides a comprehensive overview of the surge in research into Ottoman history and culture over the past two decades. The first volume reflects the growing interest in the provinces, communities and cultures outside the imperial capital of Istanbul and covers four ...

Frontiers of Ottoman studies

state, province and the west

The second volume covers Ottoman-European International Relations; Ottoman manuscripts in Europe; Ottoman-European cultural exchange and Christian influence and the advent of the Europeans. The work makes a significant contribution to diplomatic history and international relations; Ottoman geographical knowledge; the nature of Ottoman artistic and cultural ...

Drake

the lige and legend of an Elizabethan hero

Sir Francis Drake: pirate, explorer and Protestant zealot, a man princely in his bearing, heroic if sometimes foolhardy in his enterprise, a genius at once awe-inspiring and riddled with faults. He is the archetypal Elizabethan sea-dog, and Stephen Coote's brilliant new book rescues him ...

Le livre maritime au siècle des Lumières

édition et diffusion des connaissances maritimes (1750-1850)

L'histoire du livre, domaine de réflexion récent, ne s'est jusqu'à présent pas intéressée à la masse considérable des ouvrages techniques, savants, professionnels ou d'usage quotidien qui a suscité depuis les origines de l'imprimerie l'aventure maritime. Marchands, pêcheurs ou militaires ...

Los que van y vienen

información y fronteras en el Mediterráneo clásico del siglo XVI

La Europa del siglo XVI consiguió reunir una gran cantidad de información sobre el resto del mundo, que está en la base de su despegue hegemónico global moderno y de lo que se llamó mundo colonial. Es el momento en el que van a surgir ...

Viaje alrededor del mundo

a bordo de la fragata real la Boudeuse y la urca Étoile, en 1767, 1768 y 1769

"Más allá de su fracaso en la guerra del Canadá, la experiencia en aquellas tierras representó para Bougainville un escenario iniciático, ese teatro de operaciones donde no sólo demostró su ingenio militar sino también su capacidad de observación: es allí donde tomó contacto por primera ...

Un viaje alrededor del mundo

a bordo de la fragata real la Boudeuse y la urca Étoile, en 1766, 1767, 1768 y 1769

Corsario devenido en pirata, George Shelvocke cumplió la proeza de dar la vuelta al mundo entre los años 1719 y 1722. Dejó tras de sí algún naufragio, un par de motines, decenas de muertos y un cautivante libro de viajes escrito para defenderse de las ...

Reconceiving the Renaissance

a critical reader

The last two decades have transformed the field of Renaissance studies, and Reconceiving the Renaissance maps this change. Attending to the breadth of fresh approaches, the volume offers a theoretical overview of current thinking about the period. Collecting in one volume the classic and cutting-edge ...

Dante and renaissance Florence

Simon Gilson explores Dante's reception in his native Florence between 1350 and 1481. He traces the development of Florentine civic culture and the interconnections between Dante's principal 'Florentine' readers, from Giovanni Boccaccio to Cristoforo Landino, and explains how and why both supporters and ...

Hypnerotomachia poliphili

the strife of love in a dream

Exactly 500 years after its first publication by the great Venetian printing house Aldus Manutius, Francesco Colonna's weird, erotic, allegorical antiquarian tale, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, was translated into English and reprinted in full, together with all of its 174 original - and enchanting - woodcut illustrations. It ...

The cardinal's hat

money, ambition and housekeeping in a renaissance court

Second son of Lucretia Borgia, Ippolito d'Este loved gambling, hunting, tennis and women. He became Archbishop of Milan at the age of 9 ... But he had to wait another twenty years before he acquired his coveted cardinal's hat, the route to wealth and ...

Los que van y vienen

información y fronteras en el Mediterráneo clásico del siglo XVI

La Europa del siglo XVI consiguió reunir una gran cantidad de información sobre el resto del mundo, que está en la base de su despegue hegemónico global moderno y de lo que se llamó mundo colonial. Es el momento en el que van a surgir ...

Opera omnia

Re-orienting the Renaissance

cultural exchanges with the East

This book explores how the Renaissance entailed a global exchange of goods, skills and ideas between East and West. In chapters ranging from Ottoman history to Venetian publishing, from portraits of St George to Arab philosophy, from cannibalism to diplomacy, the authors interrogate what all ...

Italy illuminated.Volume I: Books I-IV

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 20)

Biondo Flavio (1392-1463), humanist and historian, was a pioneering figure in the Renaissance recovery of classical antiquity. While serving a number of the Renaissance popes, he inaugurated an extraordinary program of research into the history, institutions, cultural life, and physical remains of the ancient Roman ...

Storia fiorentina.Vol.II: 1496-1502

Questo secondo volume della Storia fiorentina di Piero Parenti è l#edizione del manoscritto autografo comprendente il periodo dall#aprile 1496 al marzo 1502: dall#ultima fase del dominio del Savonarola, terminato nel maggio del 1498 con il rogo, fino alla crisi che porterà all ...

Humanist comedies

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 19)

The five comedies included in this volume, four of which have never been translated into English, present a characteristic sampling of comic form as it was interpreted by some of the most important Latin humanists of the Quattrocento. Pier Paolo Vergerio's Paulus (ca. 1390 ...