Renaissance category: 1000 books

Revoluciones, sequías, hambrunas, invasiones, guerras, regicidios... Los desastres que se sucedieron en la segunda mitad del siglo xvii no sólo no tenían precedentes, sino que se propagaron por el globo de una forma atroz. La crisis mundial se extendió desde Inglaterra hasta Japón, desde...

La storia vista per immagini. Seguendo le orme dei personaggi più famosi dentro le corti rinascimentali d’Inghilterra e di Francia si realizza lo spaccato di un’epoca che ancora oggi con i suoi grandi artisti, re, regine e personaggi memorabili non finisce di stupire.

This book studies the patriarchalist theories of Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653) in the context of early modern English and European political cultures. Making use of unexplored primary material and adopting an innovative contextual approach, Cuttica provides a long-overdue account of an often referred-to...

Alaric, King of the Western Goths, entered Rome with his army, by the Salarian Gate -- outside of which Hannibal had encamped long ago--and took the Imperial City. Eleven hundred and sixty-four years had passed since its legendary foundation under Romulus; four hundred and forty-one since the battle...

The ancient Italian province of Venetia is of interest to us in the present inquiry as the source to which the first Venetians looked as the home of their fathers or of their own youth. It was a region of Northern Italy, which extended from the foot of the Alps to the Adriatic Sea; but its boundaries...

A thrilling account of treachery, loyalty and martyrdom in Elizabethan England from an exceptional new writer. As darkness fell on the evening of Friday, 28 October 1588, just weeks after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, two young Englishmen landed in secret on a Norfolk beach. They were Jesuit priests....

At the date of the Italian expedition, Charles viii. had been eleven years on the throne of France. The monarchy to which he succeeded was, perhaps, less controlled by constitutional checks than any other in Europe. The crown had earned popularity as the leader in the struggle against the English...

Jacques Lafaye destaca el hecho de que la pasión predominante de los príncipes del Renacimiento fue el costoso y mortífero juego de la guerra. Inspirándose notablemente en la obra maestra de Francisco López de Gómara, Historia de las guerras de mar de nuestros tiempos (1500-1559), Lafaye enfatiza...

Diese Ausgabe von "Geschichte des Königreichs Neapel" wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Karl August Georg Maximilian Graf von Platen-Hallermund (1796 - 1835) war ein deutscher Dichter. Oft wird er August Graf von Platen oder schlicht Graf Platen genannt....

En esta obra ya clásica Carlos Prieto estudió las características de la epopeya que supuso la exploración del océano Pacífico a cargo de un puñado de hombres que aunaron el arrojo y la sed de aventuras con el pleno dominio de los conocimientos náuticos y cartográficos de la época. Desde...

IN our efforts to realise the leading events of our own history we experience no small difficulty from the fact that so much of the face of England has completely altered its outward appearance under the stress of modern development, so that we find it particularly hard to picture to ourselves their...

El título de esta obra responde al proceso de creación del discurso intelectual sobre el gobierno político de la Monarquía hispánica en Tomás Cerdán de Tallada. El libro reconstruye en vías paralelas la trayectoria vital del autor y la generación más rica, amplia y compleja de su discurso...

Massimo poeta del Cinquecento, tra i maggiori della letteratura italiana, Ludovico Ariosto (Reggio Emilia 1474-Ferrara 1533) deve la sua fama soprattutto al capolavoro per cui ancora oggi è letto e studiato in tutto il mondo: l’Orlando furioso. Ma il mondo poetico dell’Ariosto è ben piú ampio...

Despite some political turmoil and upheaval linked to ongoing conflict in the clash between Protestantism and Catholicism, the rule of Charles II, who reigned from 1660-1685, was largely a happy time for the kingdom of England, Scotland and Ireland. This exhaustive account of the life and contributions...