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Cosimo's Room

Author : Tony Clark
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1848767560
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (487 download)

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Download or read book Cosimo's Room written by Tony Clark and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The murder of a disabled woman in an overgrown copse and obstruction by police colleagues motivates Detective Inspector Laura Baxter as never before. A conspiracy by influential people surrounds the planning approval for a hotel on the murder site, and the victim had important information to give Laura the day she died. Jean Easton was last seen alive in Cosimo’s Room, under which there could be sixteenth-century building remains. The remains could extend deep into the copse where the hotel will be built. Baxter’s determination grows when her ex-husband comes out of jail, threatening to snatch their daughter, and when Laura’s boyfriend leaves her. Her emotions rule her when she should be in control of the crime investigations. Laura’s record for the best clear up rate in the Police Authority is under threat. Iain Caldwell likes Baxter’s one-liners, which are aimed at anyone who tries to obstruct her. Iain was forced out of his job as a senior airline captain by the sort of people Laura has to deal with among her male colleagues and influential suspects. A friend of the victim who initially believes Iain to be the murderer becomes a friend, and they work together. Tony is inspired by a number of authors, including John le Carré, Agatha Christie, Stieg Larsson and Robert Harris. Cosimo’s Room will appeal to fans of murder mysteries.

Curiosity and Wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

Author : R.J.W. Evans
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351946668
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Curiosity and Wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment written by R.J.W. Evans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Curiosity' and 'wonder' are topics of increasing interest and importance to Renaissance and Enlightenment historians. Conspicuous in a host of disciplines from history of science and technology to history of art, literature, and society, both have assumed a prominent place in studies of the Early Modern period. This volume brings together an international group of scholars to investigate the various manifestations of, and relationships between, 'curiosity' and 'wonder' from the 16th to the 18th centuries. Focused case studies on texts, objects and individuals explore the multifaceted natures of these themes, highlighting the intense fascination and continuing scrutiny to which each has been subjected over three centuries. From instances of curiosity in New World exploration to the natural wonders of 18th-century Italy, Curiosity and Wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment locates its subjects in a broad geographical and disciplinary terrain. Taken together, the essays presented here construct a detailed picture of two complex themes, demonstrating the extent to which both have been transformed and reconstituted, often with dramatic results.

City Views in the Habsburg and Medici Courts

Author : Ryan E. Gregg
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004386165
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book City Views in the Habsburg and Medici Courts written by Ryan E. Gregg and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-12-10 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In City Views in the Habsburg and Medici Courts, Ryan E. Gregg relates how Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and Duke Cosimo I of Tuscany employed city view artists such as Anton van den Wyngaerde and Giovanni Stradano to aid in constructing authority. These artists produced a specific style of city view that shared affinity with Renaissance historiographic practice in its use of optical evidence and rhetorical techniques. History has tended to see city views as accurate recordings of built environments. Bringing together ancient and Renaissance texts, archival material, and fieldwork in the depicted locations, Gregg demonstrates that a close-knit school of city view artists instead manipulated settings to help persuade audiences of the truthfulness of their patrons’ official narratives.

Artistic Guide to Florence and Its Environs ...

Author : Società Editrice Fiorentina
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Artistic Guide to Florence and Its Environs ... written by Società Editrice Fiorentina and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Artistic Guide to Florence and Its Environs

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Artistic Guide to Florence and Its Environs written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence

Author : Lia Markey
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271078243
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence written by Lia Markey and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length study of the impact of the discovery of the Americas on Italian Renaissance art and culture, Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence demonstrates that the Medici grand dukes of Florence were not only great patrons of artists but also early conservators of American culture. In collecting New World objects such as featherwork, codices, turquoise, and live plants and animals, the Medici grand dukes undertook a “vicarious conquest” of the Americas. As a result of their efforts, Renaissance Florence boasted one of the largest collections of objects from the New World as well as representations of the Americas in a variety of media. Through a close examination of archival sources, including inventories and Medici letters, Lia Markey uncovers the provenance, history, and meaning of goods from and images of the Americas in Medici collections, and she shows how these novelties were incorporated into the culture of the Florentine court. More than just a study of the discoveries themselves, this volume is a vivid exploration of the New World as it existed in the minds of the Medici and their contemporaries. Scholars of Italian and American art history will especially welcome and benefit from Markey’s insight.

The Marvel of Maps

Author : Francesca Fiorani
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300107272
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Marvel of Maps written by Francesca Fiorani and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the most beautiful and compelling works of Renaissance art, painted maps adorned the halls and galleries of princely palaces. This book is the first to discuss in detail the three-dimensional display of these painted map cycles and their full meaning in Renaissance culture. Art historian Francesca Fiorani focuses on two of the most significant and marvelous surviving Italian map murals--the Guardaroba Nuova of the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, commissioned by Duke Cosimo de’ Medici, and the Gallery of Maps in the Vatican, commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII. Both cycles were not only pioneering cartographic enterprises but also powerful political and religious images. Presenting an original interpretation of the interaction between art, science, politics, and religion in Renaissance culture, the book also offers fresh insights into the Medici and papal courts.

Cosimo I, Duke of Florence

Author : Cecily Booth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Cosimo I, Duke of Florence written by Cecily Booth and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Medici

Author : George Frederick Young
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Medici written by George Frederick Young and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cosimo I De' Medici and His Self-Representation in Florentine Art and Culture

Author : Hendrik Thijs van Veen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521837227
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Cosimo I De' Medici and His Self-Representation in Florentine Art and Culture written by Hendrik Thijs van Veen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, Henk Th. van Veen reassesses how Cosimo de' Medici represented himself in images during the course of his rule. The text examines not only art and architecture, but also literature, historiography, religion, and festive culture.

Rick Steves Florence & Tuscany

Author : Rick Steves
Publisher : Rick Steves
ISBN 13 : 1641711418
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book Rick Steves Florence & Tuscany written by Rick Steves and published by Rick Steves. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walk in the footsteps of the Medici, sip aperitivi, and discover the cultural heart of Italy: with Rick Steves, Tuscany is yours to discover. Inside Rick Steves Florence & Tuscany you'll find: Comprehensive coverage for spending a week or more exploring Florence and Tuscany Rick's strategic advice on how to get the most out of your time and money, with rankings of his must-see favorites Top sights and hidden gems, from the Uffizi Gallery and the Duomo to a 600-year-old perfumery How to connect with local culture: Listen to a street musician's serenade on the Ponte Vecchio, stroll through a morning market sampling freshly-made pasta, and sip full-bodied wines with Montalcino locals at a corner enoteca Beat the crowds, skip the lines, and avoid tourist traps with Rick's candid, humorous insight The best places to eat, sleep, and relax with a glass of Chianti Self-guided walking tours of lively neighborhoods and incredible museums Detailed maps for exploring on the go, including driving tours through the heart of Tuscany and Brunello wine country Useful resources including a packing list, Italian phrase book, historical overview, and recommended reading Over 400 bible-thin pages include everything worth seeing without weighing you down Complete, up-to-date information on Florence, Siena, Pisa, Lucca, Volterra, San Gimignano, Montepulciano, Pienza, Montalcino, Cortona, and more Make the most of every day and every dollar with Rick Steves Florence & Tuscany. Spending less than a week exploring Florence? Try Rick Steves Pocket Florence.

Blowing Feathers

Author : Jo Ann Hansen Rasch
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 2839903555
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Blowing Feathers written by Jo Ann Hansen Rasch and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Florence

Author : Christopher Hibbert
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141926244
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Florence written by Christopher Hibbert and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-03-25 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is as captivating as the city itself. Hibbert's gift is weaving political, social and art history into an elegantly readable and marvellously lively whole. The author's book on Florence will also be at once a history and a guide book and will be enhanced by splendid photographs and illustrations and line drawings which will describe all teh buildings and treasures of the city.

Art in Renaissance Italy

Author : John T. Paoletti
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1856694399
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book Art in Renaissance Italy written by John T. Paoletti and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Art in Renaissance Italy' sets the art of that time in its context, exploring why it was created and in particular looking at who commissioned the palaces and cathedrals, the paintings and the sculptures.

Italian Cultural Lineages

Author : Jonathan White
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802094589
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Italian Cultural Lineages written by Jonathan White and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Italian Cultural Lineages, Jonathan White seeks answers to the elusive questions: what is Italian culture and what is the Italian identity? By tracing Italian life and art through several themes viewing and spectatorship, fantasy, passion, justice, reputation, and lifestyles White offers new ways of perceiving an ancient cultural tradition in the twenty-first century. In doing so, he challenges readers to discern rich poetic seams that bind together his varied subject matter. Italian Cultural Lineages is primarily concerned with factors that unify Italians, however geographically dispersed they may be. Drawing on extensive archival and historical research, White shows how oftentimes Italian cultural traditions that appear to be extinct are, in fact, enduring pushed out of the mainstream or submerged at some given point in history, only to re-surface and take on new meanings at a later date. Other, more marginal currents might disrupt and fragment Italian identity, politically and socially. However, White proposes that the challenge to Italy in these new and difficult lessons in tolerance has the potential to produce a much stronger culture, primed to welcome the marginal into an expanded spirit of all that counts as Italian. Ideally suited to course use, and written with great lucidity, Italian Cultural Lineages will prove fascinating to students, academics, and general readers alike.

The Medici, Michelangelo, & the Art of Late Renaissance Florence

Author : Cristina Acidini
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300094954
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (949 download)

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Download or read book The Medici, Michelangelo, & the Art of Late Renaissance Florence written by Cristina Acidini and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Publisdhed in conjuntion with the exhibition: Magnificenza! the Medici, Michelangelo, & the Art of Late Renaissance Florence (In Italy, L'Ombra del genio: Michelangelo e l'arte a Firenze, 1538-1631) ..."--Title page verso.

The Beijing Games

Author : Pat DePaolo
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1434340872
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book The Beijing Games written by Pat DePaolo and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE BEIJING GAMES is a break-neck international thriller depicting a China-led conspiracy involving the most unlikely cabal of Washington insiders, a giant U.S. retailer, a private European banker, and a Chinese conglomerate controlled by the PLA. Their black goal is to eliminate all import restrictions on Chinese-made goods, and effectively destroy large segments of the U.S. manufacturing industry in order to dictate spending decisions of millions of Americans for years to come. Set in 2008/2009, the only person standing in their way is 48-year-old failed businessman, Justin Gatt, an unlikely hero whose life is thrust into turmoil when he is recruited to travel undercover in China to attempt to gather information critical to the U.S. Aided by three remarkable women who risk their lives to help him, Gatt escapes a Shanghai death-squad and a Chinese SAM missile. Finally, he's caught in the cross-hairs of an assassin's sniper rifle, as he attempts to warn US officials of a conspiracy to unlease biological and financial attacks designed to stagger the US economy. When chaos follows the Olympics, Gatt must find a way to warn the President-elect of an even more deadly threat. SEE READER COMMENTS BELOW: