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A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance
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Guido Ruggiero |
This volume brings together some of the most exciting renaissance scholars to suggest new ways of thinking about the period and to set a new series of agendas for Renaissance scholarship.Overturns th… |
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Vernacular translation in Dante's Italy
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Alison Cornish |
"Translation and commentary are often associated with institutions and patronage; but in Italy around the time of Dante, widespread vernacular translation was mostly on the spontaneous initiative of … |
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A Tuscan childhood
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Kinta Beevor |
"Wonderful...I fell immediately into her world, and was sorry when I reached the end." --Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan SunThe sparkling memoir of an idyllic, bohemian childhood in an ench… |
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Fairy godfather
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Ruth B. Bottigheimer |
"In a bold departure from conventional fairy tale scholarship, Ruth B. Bottigheimer asserts that city life and a single individual played a central role in the creation and transmission of many of th… |
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Doctors, ambassadors, secretaries
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Douglas Biow |
xviii, 224 p. : 24 cm |
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Dante and Renaissance Florence
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Simon A. Gilson |
xii, 324 p. : |
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Broken time, fragmented space
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Anna Maria Torriglia |
"Broken Time, Fragmented Space: A Cultural Map for Postwar Italy examines how the artists and intellectuals of postwar Italy dealt with the painful heritage of their Fascist upbringing and education … |
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Paradise of Cities
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John Julius Norwich |
John Julius Norwich, the author of A History of Venice, traces the transformation of Venice from a proud independent state into a dazzling dreamscape that attracted artists, writers, and composers fr… |
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Humanism and Secularization
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Riccardo Fubini |
"The Renaissance movement known as humanism eventually spread from Italy through all of western Europe, transforming early modern culture in ways that are still being felt and debated. Central to the… |
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