158 results for '"Giovanni Boccaccio'

Se il populismo è sintomo e non malattia, da dove deriva il nostro rancore? Da Tocqueville a Tangentopoli, dal Sessantotto ai giorni nostri, la storia del lento divorzio tra cittadino e politica.«La...

What do you call an architecture firm that draws inspiration from the most extreme aspects of nature and human psychology? When faced with this challenge in 1989, architect Franois Roche decided that...

Text: Italian

Dynamic and accessible, this graphic novel explores the complex and multifaceted career of one of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries' most influential and iconoclastic artists. David Hockney's...

Catalog Of An Exhibition Held At Palazzo Thiene, Vicenza, Dec. 5 2003-january 25, 2004 And At Gallerie Dell'accademia, Venice, February1-29, 2004. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 91-94).

In the last two centuries, agriculture has been an outstanding, if somewhat neglected, success story. Agriculture has fed an ever-growing population with an increasing variety of products at falling...

Text: English (translation)Original Language: Italian

Book by Edwards, Nancy, Gregori, Mina, Humphery, Peter, Gilbert, Creghton, Brindgeman, Jane

Text: Italian

The Long Twentieth Century traces the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Arrighi argues that capitalism has unfolded as a succession of “long...

Molecular Machines presents a dynamic new approach to the physics of enzymes and DNA from the perspective of materials science. Unified around the concept of molecular deformability—how proteins and...

Historians like Ephorus, Theopompus, or Aristotle's great-nephew Callisthenes, to say nothing of Xenophon, counted among the most acclaimed in antiquity. But with the exception of Xenophon, their...

Most ancient history focuses on the urban elite. Papyrology explores the daily lives of the more typical men and women in antiquity. Aphrodito, a village in sixth-century AD Egypt, is antiquity's...

Social network analysis maps relationships and transactions between people and groups. This text was the first book-length application of this method to the ancient world, using the abundant...