113 results for '"FLORE"'

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...

"Cosimo de'Medici (1389-1464), the fabulously wealthy banker who became the leading citizen of Florence in the fifteenth century, spent lavishly as the city's most important patron of art and...

Dino Campagni's classic chronicle gives a detailed account of a crucial period in the history of Florence, beginning about 1280 and ending in the first decade of the fourteenth century. During that...

Explore ancient ruins, sip aperitivi, and visit Renaissance masterpieces: with Rick Steves as your guide, Rome, Florence, and Venice are yours to discover! Inside Rick Steves Rome, Florence & Venice...

This book, now available in paperback, concerns the everyday private and public lives of the citizens of ancient Rome. Drawing on a broad selection of contemporary sources, the author examines the...

. 1990, bright clean copy, no markings, no dustjacket, Professional booksellers since 1981

A lively history of punctuation, from ancient times to the age of the emoji You know the lively exclamation mark, the controversial semicolon, and the often-omitted apostrophe, but would you...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND READ WITH JENNA PICK—A WORD-OF-MOUTH HIT THAT BEGS TO BE SHAREDLONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL“Dazzling.” —The Washington Post“A magnificent novel.”...

Hans Baron's Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance is widely considered one of the most important works in Italian REnaissance studies. Princeton University Press published this seminal book in...

The city of Florence has long been admired as the home of the brilliant artistic and literary achievement of the early Renaissance. But most histories of Florence go no further than the first decades...

The great English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) worked with his second wife, Florence, on this account of his life. It was published under her name, in two separate volumes, after his...

A gorgeous picture book about the connections created through music, and how music can reach loved ones with dementia.A young boy learns to play guitar from his grandfather, and the one about the...

Rome, civilisation des spectacles, est connue pour les jeux du cirque, mais on ignore que le theatre y tint une place au moins aussi importante. Les Romains, des la Republique, allaient au theatre...

The making and remaking of Bukovina, a disputed Eastern European borderland, from the eighteenth century to the present dayBukovina, when it has existed on official maps, has always fit uneasily...

Catalogo della mostra: Firenze, Galleria dell'Accademia, 24 giugno - 8 dicembre 2014. Il catalogo - e la mostra - illustra un importantissimo fenomeno culturale, il collezionismo dei cosiddetti...

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...