189 results for '"Descamps, Florence'

Professor Kent is concerned with one of the major questions posed by historical research on the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance: did these periods witness the nuclearization of the aristocratic...

Preface to the second editionPart I: Cosimo de Medici and the foundations of the Medici RegimePart II: Piero di Cosimo: Republican Reaction and Medicean RestorationPart III: Lorenzo di Piero: the...

Cécile Beuzelin ; Préface De Maurice Brock. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 149-163) And Index.

Florencia E. Mallon examines the development of capitalism in Peru's central highlands, depicting its impact on peasant village economy and society. She shows that the region's peasantry divided into...

(Partito Marxista-Leninista Italiano) is a minor Marxist political party in Italy. It was founded in Florence in 1977.

“As full of epic characters as the Sistine Chapel ceiling . . . Sinfully fun to read.” —Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker“[A] thorough success . . . A dazzling romp.” —Steven Poole, The...

A ring depicting Leda and the Swan given to her at age sixteen by her father becomes Florence Ellis's symbol for love, and after seeing a fortune-teller, she is ready for any incarnation the "love of...

“As full of epic characters as the Sistine Chapel ceiling . . . Sinfully fun to read.” —Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker“[A] thorough success . . . A dazzling romp.” —Steven Poole, The...

This volume of paintings, sculpture, medals and drawings celebrates the flowering of female portraiture, mainly in Florence, during the latter half of the 15th century. Included are portraits of...

From Caldecott Honor winner Christian Robinson and acclaimed author Renee Watson, comes the inspiring true story of Florence Mills.Born to parents who were both former slaves, Florence Mills knew at...

Personnage grossier, brutal, le duc Alexandre de Médicis dirige la ville de Florence. Se désintéressant de sa haute fonction, méprisant la bourgeoisie comme le peuple, il passe son temps dans le lit...

A vivid, dramatic, and authoritative account of perhaps the most influential family in Italian history: the Medici.A dazzling history of the modest family that rose to become one of the most powerful...

In Sexual Hegemony Christopher Chitty traces the five-hundred year history of capitalist sexual relations by excavating the class dynamics of the bourgeoisie's attempts to regulate homosexuality...

National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Penelope Fitzgerald's The Bookshop is "a marvelously piercing fiction" (Times Literary Supplement), short-listed for the Booker Prize. With an...