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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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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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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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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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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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Eclogues. Garden of the Hesperides(Hardback)
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25/11/2022
Giovanni Gioviano Pontano was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance as well as a leading statesman. Eclogues and Garden of the Hesperides, both broadly inspired by Virgil, might be consi...
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Portraits of Learned Men(Hardback)
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01/03/2023
Paolo Giovio''s Portraits of Learned Men provides brief biographies of 146 men from Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio to Erasmus, Thomas More, and Juan Luis Vives that were meant to accompany portraits...
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Rome in Triumph, Volume 1(Hardback)
Books I-II
Harvard University Press
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07/06/2016
Biondo Flavio was a pioneering figure in the Renaissance discovery of antiquity and popularized the term Middle Age to describe the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the revival of ant...
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Commentaries, Volume 3(Hardback)
Books V-VII
Harvard University Press
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01/10/2017
Commentaries by Pius II (1405 1464)-the only autobiography ever written by a pope-was composed in elegant humanistic Latin modeled on Caesar and Cicero. This edition contains a fresh Latin text base...
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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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