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Rembrandt's stunning religious prints stand as evidence of the Dutch master's extraordinary skill as a technician and as a testament to his genius as a teller of tales. Here, several virtually unknown etchings, collected by the Feddersen family and now preserved for the ages at the University of Notre Dame, are made widely available in a lavishly illustrated volume. Building on the contributions of earlier Rembrandt scholars, noted art historian Charles...
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"The Last Days of Pompeii" - Pompeii, A.D. 79. Athenian nobleman Glaucus arrives in the bustling and gaudy Roman town and quickly falls in love with the beautiful Greek Ione. Ione's former guardian, the malevolent Egyptian sorcerer Arbaces, has designs on Ione and sets out to destroy their budding happiness. But will he succeed in his evil plot? Or, will the cataclysmic destruction of the city by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius be the end of all? And,...
83) El río morisco
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El problema principal, por no decir el único, que se plantea en este libro es el de la convivencia entre grupos de diferentes culturas. El autor expresa lo que le separa de Villanueva, de Juan Goytisolo y de la postura de Francisco Márquez, investigadores que comparten su punto de vista. Con todo el respeto hacia su inmensa obra y hacia su pensamiento generoso, Bernard Vincent afirma que el voluntarismo de estos autores falta a la realidad. Quieren...
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From Jeanne Kalogridis, the bestselling author of The Borgia Bride and The Scarlet Contessa, comes a tale of love, loss and treachery set during the perilous days of the Spanish Inquisition
1481 Seville: The Inquisition makes its first appearance in Spain. Its target: conversos, Christians of Jewish descent-specifically those who practice Judaism secretly in their homes. The penalty for "crypto-Judaism": Burning at the stake.
Marisol Garcia, a young...
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The description for this book, Florentine Histories, will be forthcoming. "This translation . . . of Machiavelli's thoughts on his native city is meant to be less colloquial and closer to the original than the typical translation. This highlights how Machiavelli used words (and thought) differently from us. . . . Machiavelli is too often remembered merely as the realist who took the morality out of `virtue.' As the Histories demonstrate, he was also...
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Step into the Elizabethan world of the extraordinary Giordano Bruno: a philosopher, a magician, a professor, a spy, an initiate in a pan-European secret society. In this vivid novel, meet kings and queens, court alchemists, great playwrights, scoundrels, and come to know the greatest minds of the Western European Renaissance. Engage with the esoteric spiritual practices of the art of memory, visualization, and mysticism. Enter into the secret societies...
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THE RENAISSANCE TRILOGY - BOOK IIIn this sequel to THE MERCY OF LIONS; Knight of Rhodes, Hugh de Erpingham, continues his quest into the dark heart of renaissance Italy. Keeping one step ahead of the mysterious White Cardinal, and always just beyond the reach of his arch-nemesis Antonio Vendramin, Hugh and company still find time to make new enemies in Ferrara, Mantua and Venice, and some new friends too. Caught in the jaws of the venetian war, Hugh...
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The medieval guild is deconstructed into political theory and social commentary in this contemporary look at one of the most important social institutions of the Middle Ages. Essential principles and values underlying the guild system are discussed with a view toward applying them to current societal ills such as unemployment, absentee corporate ownership, and employee disenfranchisement. The system, adapted to the needs and circumstances of the 21st-century,...
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La de Martin Guerre es la historia de una impostura. En el año 1540 un rico campesino del Languedoc abandonó a su mujer, su hijo y sus propiedades, y durante años no se supo más de él. Tiempo después volvió -o así lo creyó todo el mundo-, integrándose plenamente en su vida anterior. Sin embargo, tras varios años de apacible convivencia matrimonial, la mujer alegó que había sido engañada por un impostor y denunció a su supuesto marido...
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Travel back to the court of the French Renaissance!
Mingle with the royal court of France with the Cleves sisters. Now get the stories of each sister: Marie, Henriette, and Catherine, in a single volume.
Book One: Almost a Queen. Who wouldn't want to be Queen?
Cousins to the King of Navarre, the Cleves sisters witness the glamour and danger of the French royal court firsthand. Youngest sister, Marie is trapped in an unhappy arranged marriage with...
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My sight was always good. But color now takes on even greater riches. I no longer need the bright blues and reds, which I did so delight in when I was young. I see a hundred times more beauty now in a dark brown, or the pale tints of quiet flesh. Or a ray of light across a fur or a beaten earth floor or a suit of black armor. Such colors do not distract the eye, but rather let it concentrate on my forte, the human face. There I will have my theater,...
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Un gran viaje histórico artístico desde el quattrocento de la Florencia de los Medici y la época dorada del cinquecento, con los grandes genios Leonardo, Miguel Ángel o Rafael hasta la propagación del Renacimiento por toda Europa y su florecimiento en España en el siglo XVI con la poesía mística, la picaresca, el Quijote o El Greco
Conozca una de las épocas más interesantes de la historia, el inicio de la Edad Moderna y el desarrollo de...
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The powerful, raging second novel in The Venetians trilogy that tells of the bitter and enduring conflict between two powerful Italian noble families.
The Lion of St. Mark told the story of the deep-seated rivalry between the patrician Ziani and Soranzo families--a long history of hatred and strife that had passed from one generation to the next. In the end, the brave Antonio Ziani and the proud Giovanni Soranzo set aside their personal vendettas...
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Durante el siglo XIV, las estructuras políticas, fiscales y financieras de los estados que formaban la Corona de Aragón sufrieron una profunda transformación. Como consecuencia de esta, surgieron las diputaciones del General, llamadas más tarde en Valencia y Cataluña Generalitat. Este libro pretende explicar, por una parte, cómo era y cómo funcionaba durante el siglo XVI «el sistema fiscal» del que fue titular la Generalitat foral valenciana...
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Rom, 1456: Der Dominikanermönch Vinzenz gerät in die Fänge des gefürchteten Kardinals Rodrigo Borgia. Als Vinzenz sich weigert, den Zugang zu einem verborgenen Schatz der Tempelritter zu offenbaren, wird er in eines der Verliese unterhalb der Engelsburg eingekerkert und muss um sein Leben bangen, während der Würdenträger seinen unfrommen Begierden frönt.
Er war ein Mörder, ein Lüstling, ein Meister der Intrige. Und doch bestieg "der personifizierte...
96) Martí de Viciana: Libro tercero de la Crónica de la ínclita y coronada ciudad de Valencia y de su
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En esta parte de su Crónica, editada el 1564, Martí de Viciana, doctorado en Derecho en Valencia, notario de la corte del alcalde y justicia de Burriana, elabora una descripción topográfica de las poblaciones valencianas. El historiador escribió su obra en catalán, pese a que la publicó en castellano. Se trata de uno de los testigos más importantes de la época de las Germanías.
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Annie-Violet is a young servant girl working long hours at a big country house. She is happy there, but the young girls can sometimes, be at the mercy of unscrupulous menfolk at night. If they complain, they are often summarily, dismissed.
Then Annie-Violet suddenly discovers a secret, which shocks her to the core. She seeks help from her beloved Aunt Florrie, but her rebellious nature does not help the situation.
She has a crush on Frederick the...
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Victoria Kahn is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. She is the author of Rhetoric, Prudence, and Skepticism in the Renaissance (Cornell) and co-editor, with Albert Ascoli, of Machiavelli and the Discourse of Literature (Cornell).
Historians of political thought have argued that the real Machiavelli is the republican thinker and theorist of civic virt. Machiavellian Rhetoric argues in contrast that Renaissance...
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Here is a collection of short prose that allows you to judge the multifaceted work of the writer. Poignant stories about human destinies, love and death, passion and loneliness, the mysterious past and the fantastic future, in which, sometimes, it is difficult to draw a line between reality and fiction, found their shelter in it. Romantic and philosophical, cheerful and creepy, they are all written in the unique handwriting of a master who never ceases...
100) Leonardo's Lost Princess: One Man's Quest to Authenticate an Unknown Portrait by Leonardo Da Vinci
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How an oddly attributed $19,000 picture proved to be a $100 million work by Leonardo da Vinci-a true art-world detective story
In late 2010, art collector Peter Silverman revealed that a "German, early 19th century" portrait he had bought for $19,000 was, in fact, a previously unknown drawing by Leonardo da Vinci-an exquisite depiction of Bianca Sforza, rendered 500 years ago. In Leonardo's Lost Princess, Silverman gives a riveting first-person account...
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