Renaissance category: 1000 books

John Acton weaves a fantastic history spanning from the Renaissance to the American Revolution.  Featuring: Beginning Of The Modern State The New World The Renaissance Luther The Counter-Reformation Calvin And Henry Viii. Philip Ii, Mary Stuart, And Elizabeth The Huguenots And The League Henry...

Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation. The Age of the Renaissance is a classic history of the Renaissance in Western Europe, written by noted historian Hans Prutz.

The several successive editions of "The Arts of the Middle Ages and Period of the Renaissance" sufficiently testify to its appreciation by the public. The object of that work was to introduce the reader to a branch of learning to which access had hitherto appeared only permitted to the scientific....

At a time when the French monarchy traced its origins back to ancient Troy, Homeric epic was fated to play a significant political role. Homer came to Renaissance France packaged with an ancient interpretive tradition that made him an authority on all matters but also distinctly separate from Virgil...

Sometime around 1446 A.D., Cardinal Prospero Colonna commissioned engineer Battista Alberti to raise two immense Roman vessels from the bottom of the lago di Nemi, just south of Rome. By that time, local fishermen had been fouling their nets and occasionally recovering stray objects from the sunken...

Ingratiation from the Renaissance to the Present explores a common ethical problem for intellectuals of the Renaissance: How does one win the favor and patronage of the wealthy and powerful and yet maintain one’s dignity, independence, or principles? This study examines this and similar ethical...

Dieses eBook: "Gesammelte Werke: Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien + Weltgeschichtliche Betrachtungen + Der Cicerone + Die Zeit Constantins des Großen + E Hämpfeli Lieder + Autobiographische Schriften" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde...

Echoes of Aquinas in Cusanus’s Vision of Man demonstrates the influence that the philosophical and theological anthropology of Saint Thomas Aquinas had on Nicholas of Cusa’s (Cusanus) view of human nature. Markus Führer demonstrates that Cusanus's view of the place of man in the universe is remarkably...

Of all the Italian cities, Florence was the cradle of the Renaissance. But Florentine life was brutal, not gentle. However wealthy and beautiful it appeared, economically and strategically, its position was always desperate. Despite its perils, the families and artists of Florence flourished. Here, from...

Une crise durable traverse l’Europe. Peut-être même est-ce plus qu’une crise : un mal profond. Ne serait-ce pas la fin d’une époque ? d’une civilisation incomparable, celle de la Renaissance ? Apparues avec elle, les valeurs morales, religieuses, politiques et sociales qui ont animé...

On a beaucoup écrit sur le massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy, beaucoup raconté la mise à mort dans Paris de centaines, voire de milliers de calvinistes. C'est pourtant un événement sans histoire, tant demeurent nombreuses les incertitudes qui enveloppent la nuit du 24 août 1572. Cet ouvrage...

The very name Lucrezia Borgia conjures up everything that was sinister and corrupt about the Renaissance—incest, political assassination, papal sexual abuse, poisonous intrigue, unscrupulous power grabs. Yet, as bestselling biographer Sarah Bradford reveals in this breathtaking new portrait, the...

This colorful history of a powerful family brings the world they lived in—the glittering Rome of the Italian Renaissance—to life. The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The powerful, voracious Rodrigo Borgia, better known...

Acclaimed art historian and Metropolitan Museum of Art lecturer Olivier Bernier brings vividly to life the dramatic, little-told stories of the great princes and princesses of Renaissance Italy - men and women named Borgia, Este, Farnese, and Medici.