81 results for 'piero ignatiu'

'In short, I write just what I think.' After a successful career in the service of an aristocratic family, Charles Ignatius Sancho (c.1729–1780) established a successful grocery business in...

Piero Sartogo and Nathalie Grenon are, as Richard Meier writes in his foreword, "European architects with a world perspective." This volume, clearly demonstrating that world perspective, is the first...

This is the first book on Piero di Cosimo (1461–1521) widely considered one of the most intriguing figures of the Florentine Renaissance – to be written in English for over fifty years. Sharon Fermor...

Ignatius Loyola

"Non importa quanto la vita vi sia rimossa, imitata, distorta, presa in giro, esagerata. Se l'opera letteraria non dice qualcosa ai viventi è muta". Piero Boitani introduce il lettore alla grande...

A Cura Di Piero Boccardo ; Con La Collaborazione Di Clario Di Fabio, Anna Orlando, Farida Simonetti. At Head Of Title: Genova, Palazzo Ducale. Published In Conjunction With The Exhibition Held In...

The fascinating stories behind the essential seven units of measurement that allow us to understand the physical world "Entertaining popular science and a literate tale of why things are as they...

Libri che «non hanno finito mai di dire quel che hanno da dire», i classici sono davvero «infinitamente futuri». Qui Piero Boitani ci consegna pagine acuminate in cui interroga fra l'altro l'Iliade,...

Tracing the influence and impact of Plato’s Timaeus—and its major themes, creation and beauty—through the centuriesMore than two thousand years after it was written, Plato’s Timaeus continues to...

"Between 1933 and 1941, C.G. Jung lectured at the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology (ETH). The ETH lectures are at the center of Jung's intellectual activity in the 1930s and provide a primary...

In the 'Baptism of Christ', long recognized as a major achievement of the early renaissance, a sense of haunting portent emanates from a seemingly straightforward representation of a familiar...

Why do most children acquire speech easily yet bog down when it comes to learning to read? This important question is the starting point for the twenty-two contribution to Language by Ear and by Eye ...

Boitani's presentation of the classics is as entertaining and unexpected as it is informative. He invites the reader to discover the timeless beauty and wisdomof ancient literature, highlighting its...

Non più risposta di una borghesia spaventata di fronte alla "marea rossa", come negli anni '20 e '30, i nuovi partiti di estrema destra sono figli della società contemporanea e dei suoi problemi,...

This book presents a comprehensive investigation of the notion of obligation in Bentham's thought. For Bentham, obligation is a fictitious - namely linguistic - entity, whose import and truth lie in...