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The Renaissance Perfected

Author : D. Medina Lasansky
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271023663
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book The Renaissance Perfected written by D. Medina Lasansky and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mussolini&’s bold claims upon the monuments and rhetoric of ancient Rome have been the subject of a number of recent books. D. Medina Lasansky shows us a much less familiar side of the cultural politics of Italian Fascism, tracing its wide-ranging efforts to adapt the nation&’s medieval and Renaissance heritage to satisfy the regime&’s programs of national regeneration. Anyone acquainted with the beauties of Tuscany will be surprised to learn that architects, planners, and administrators working within Fascist programs fabricated much of what today&’s tourists admire as authentic. Public squares, town halls, palaces, gardens, and civic rituals (including the famed Palio of Siena) were all &“restored&” to suit a vision of the past shaped by Fascist notions of virile power, social order, and national achievement in the arts. Ultimately, Lasansky forces readers to question long-standing assumptions about the Renaissance even as she expands the parameters of what constitutes Fascist culture. The arguments in The Renaissance Perfected are based in fresh archival evidence and a rich collection of illustrations, many reproduced for the first time, ranging from photographs and architectural drawings to tourist posters and film stills. Lasansky&’s groundbreaking book will be essential reading for students of medieval, Renaissance, and twentieth-century Italy as well as all those concerned with visual culture, architectural preservation, heritage studies, and tourism studies.

Siena, the Story of a Mediaeval Commune

Author : Ferdinand Schevill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Siena, the Story of a Mediaeval Commune written by Ferdinand Schevill and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Spectator

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 984 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Among Our Books

Author : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Among Our Books written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Medieval and Renaissance Venice

Author : Donald E. Queller
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252024610
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (246 download)

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Download or read book Medieval and Renaissance Venice written by Donald E. Queller and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in a generation, leading scholars of medieval and Renaissance Venice join forces to define the current state of the field and to reveal in its rich diversity. Forays into neglected aspects of Venetian studies reveal new insights into coinage and concubinage, the first Jewish ghetto and the Fourth Crusade, and matters from dowry inflation to state spectacle to cheese...

Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa

Author : Edward Hutton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa written by Edward Hutton and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sports Spectators

Author : Allen Guttmann
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231064012
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Sports Spectators written by Allen Guttmann and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his previous books Allen Guttmann has provided incisive perspectives on Avery Brundage's role in the Olympic movement and on the nature of modern sports. Now, in his latest book, the accomplished historian of sport turns his attention from the playing field to the grandstand. Sports Spectators, the first historical study of the subject from antiquity to today, is at once erudite and entertaining; comprehensive and succint. Guttmann first examines the history of sports spectators, starting with Ancient Greece and Rome. He then moves on to the Renaissance and traces three early sports -the tournament, archery, and early versions of football. The author then focuses on the emergenece of sports in post-Renaissance England, and discusses the curious spectacle of animal sports (bear- and bull-baiting and cockfighting), as well as the first appearance of combat sports such as sword fighting, stick fighting, and boxing. The book concludes its historical view by exploring contemporary baseball, football, rowing, tennis, and golf. From his chronological narrative, Guttmann shifts to detailed analysis of the economic, sociological, and psychological aspects of sports spectatorship. Who were, and are, sports spectators? What is their gender and social class? Have they normally been participants as well as fans? What are the political functions of sports-watching? What are the social dynamics of spectatorship? Guttmann provides fresh insights which will be useful to scholars and fascinating to everyone. Sports Spectators also looks at the dramatic transformations radio and television have made, and offers an incisive critique of today's sports-related violence, including the increasingly frequent incidences of spectator hooliganism. How violent (or peaceful) have spectators traditionally been? Has spectator violence increased or decreased? You needn't be a season ticket-holder to enjoy Sports Spectators. Allen Guttmann makes the history of fandom come alive for any reader interested in Western culture and what forms of entertainment reveal about us, as well as those concerned with the recent growth of spectator violence.

A People's History of Christianity

Author : Denis R. Janz
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1451470533
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book A People's History of Christianity written by Denis R. Janz and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This one-volume edition contains careful selections and abridgements of the original content [of the seven-volume set] and covers the entire scope of church history. It provides a valuable overview of such topics as birth and death, marriage and family life, baptism rites, food power, heresy, and more. Students are both informed and inspired by seeing the importance of ordinary Christians in shaping Christianity across time.

Animals and Early Modern Identity

Author : PiaF. Cuneo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351576437
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Animals and Early Modern Identity written by PiaF. Cuneo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animals were everywhere in the early modern period and they impacted, at least in some way, the lives of every kind of early modern person, from the humblest peasant to the greatest prince. Artists made careers based on depicting them. English gentry impoverished themselves spending money on them. Humanists exercised their scholarship writing about them. Pastors saved souls delivering sermons on them. Nobles forged alliances competing with them. Foreigners and indigenes negotiated with one another through trading them. The nexus between animal-human relationships and early modern identity is illuminated in this volume by the latest research of international scholars working on the history of art, literature, and of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Germany, France, England, Spain, and South Africa. Collectively, these essays investigate how animals - horses, dogs, pigs, hogs, fish, cattle, sheep, birds, rhinoceroses, even sea-monsters and other creatures - served people in Europe, England, the Americas, and Africa to defend, contest or transcend the boundaries of early modern identities. Developments in the methodologies employed by scholars to interrogate the past have opened up an intellectual and discursive space for - and a concomitant recognition of - the study of animals as a topic that significantly elucidates past and present histories. Relevant to a considerable array of disciplines, the study of animals also provides a means to surmount traditional disciplinary boundaries through processes of dynamic interchange and cross-fertilization.

The Nation

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1088 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa

Author : Edward Hutton
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465562192
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa written by Edward Hutton and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1914-01-01 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cambridge Review

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 1-26 include a supplement: The University pulpit, vols. [1]-26, no. 1-661, which has separate pagination but is indexed in the main vol.

City and Spectacle in Medieval Europe

Author : Barbara Hanawalt
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816623594
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book City and Spectacle in Medieval Europe written by Barbara Hanawalt and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban ceremonial in the Middle Ages took various forms and served a number of different ends--private, collegial, political, and religious. Broadly construed, urban ceremonial included public functions of multiple sorts. From private, but public, celebrations of births, marriages, and deaths to the grand entries of rulers into cities, the spectacles were designed to impress events on collective memory. - from the Introduction.

The Dial

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Dial written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Strides

Author : Benjamin Cheever
Publisher : Rodale Books
ISBN 13 : 1605296201
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Strides written by Benjamin Cheever and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2007-09-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed novelist Benjamin Cheever--author of The Plagiarist, Famous After Death, and The Good Nanny--brings his buoyant literary style to this impassioned memoir about the sport that changed his life. From Pheidippides, who ran the first marathon in 490 BC--bringing news to Athens of the Greek victory on the plains of Marathon--to our own soldiers in Iraq today, running is an integral part of human culture and legend. In Strides, heralded author Benjamin Cheever explores the role of running in human history while interspersing this account with revelations of his own decades-long devotion to the sport. Cheever has traveled the world writing features for Runner's World magazine, and he draws from this rich experience on every page. His adventures have taken him to Kenya in search of the secrets of the world's fastest long-distance runners and to a 10-K race with American soldiers in Baghdad. Cheever celebrates the quotidian personal satisfaction of a morning run and the more exotic pleasures of the Medoc Marathon in Bordeaux, where fine wines are served at water stations and the first prize is the winner's weight in grand crus. He shares vivid moments from the New York Marathon and waxes rhapsodic about the granddaddy of American distance events--the Boston Marathon. But what truly distinguishes Strides as a memorable read is the unique lens through which this sparkling writer explores our deep bond to running, an experience he likens to that of being able to fly.

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Italy

Author : Adele Stratton
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0756672759
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Italy written by Adele Stratton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italy offers an extraordinary kaleidoscope of regions and experiences for all visitors. Packed with photographs, illustrations and maps the Eyewitness Travel to Italy in the new ebook format has mapped out all of the remarkable flavors of Italy. Use this guide to help you decide where to stay, eat, relax, and shop. Every page in the Eyewitness Travel to Italy has pinpointed the highlights of each fascinating region. Annually revised and updated with beautiful new photos, illustrations, and maps, this guide includes information on local customs, currency, medical services, and transportation. Consistently chosen over the competition in national consumer market research. The best keeps getting better!

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Italy

Author : Adele Evans
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0756691168
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Italy written by Adele Evans and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DK Eyewitness Italy travel guide will lead you straight to the best attractions Italy's kaleidoscope of regions have on offer. Packed with photographs and illustrations, the guide explores every facet that makes the country irresistible; from the Alps in the far north to the sun-blessed Mediterranean shores of the south. The guide provides all the insider tips every visitor needs from soaking up the romance of Verona, basking in the warm evening sun in Tuscany, or gaping at the ancient ruins lining the streets of Rome as well as comprehensive listings of the best hotels, villas, resorts, restaurants, and nightlife in each region for all budgets. You'll find 3D cutaways and floorplans of all the must-see sites of the major cities and towns. DK Eyewitness Italy explores the history, classical origins, architecture and art of this stylish and charismatic country - and still finds room to recommend a wine to go with the risi e bisi or the maccheroni con le sarde. With up-to-date information on getting around by train, boat, car, walking in cities and all the sights, beaches, and resorts listed town by town, DK Eyewitness Italy is indispensable. Don't miss a thing on your holiday with the DK Eyewitness Italy