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Biographical and Autobiographical Writings(Hardback)
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27/10/2023
Leon Battista Alberti was among the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance. Biographical and Autobiographical Writings includes On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Literature, The Life of...
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On Leaders and Tyrants(Hardback)
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27/09/2024
On Leaders and Tyrants contains works, the majority by Renaissance humanist Poggio Bracciolini, relating to a debate on Scipio Africanus and Julius Caesar that discusses tyranny, military glory, and...
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Dinner Pieces(Hardback)
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05/03/2024
A collection of stories meant to be read while dining and drinking, the Dinner Pieces, or Intercenales, are among Alberti''s most innovative works. They constitute an important monument in the histo...
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Letters(Hardback)
v. 1
Harvard University Press
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13/06/2006
Angelo Poliziano (1454 - 1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Italian Renaissance and the leading literary figure of the Age of Lorenzo de' Medici, 'il Magnifico'. This volume illuminates...
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History of Venice(Paperback)
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Harvard University Press
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01/05/2008
Chronicles the internal politics and events and focuses on the external affairs of Venice, and the conflicts with other European states and with the Turks in the East.
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Pius II(Hardback)
Commentaries
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Harvard University Press
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01/11/2007
Pius II (1405-1464) began life as Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini in a small town near Siena and became a Latin poet and diplomat. This book gives us a glimpse of his life and thoughts.
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Ciceronian Controversies(Hardback)
Harvard University Press
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01/04/2007
The most important literary dispute of the Renaissance pitted those writers of Neo-Latin who favoured imitation of Cicero alone, as the single best exemplar of Latin prose, against those who preferr...
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Writings on Church and Reform(Hardback)
Harvard University Press
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01/05/2008
Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), considered the philosopher of the Renaissance, was born in Kues on the Moselle River. A polymath who studied canon law and became a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Churc...
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Commentaries on Plato(Hardback)
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Harvard University Press
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01/11/2008
Contains the author's analysis and commentary on the Phaedrus, which he explicates as a meditation on "beauty in all its forms" and a sublime work of theology. This title explores a poetics of divin...
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Famous Women(Hardback)
Harvard University Press
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26/04/2001
After the composition of the Decameron, and under the influence of Petrarch's humanism, Giovanni Boccaccio devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them i...
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