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Download or read book The Florentines written by Paul Strathern and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping and magisterial four-hundred-year history of both the city and the people who gave birth to the Renaissance. Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642, something happened that transformed the entire culture of western civilization. Painting, sculpture, and architecture would all visibly change in such a striking fashion that there could be no going back on what had taken place. Likewise, the thought and self-conception of humanity would take on a completely new aspect. Sciences would be born—or emerge in an entirely new guise. The ideas that broke this mold began, and continued to flourish, in the city of Florence in northern central Italy. These ideas, which placed an increasing emphasis on the development of our common humanity—rather than other-worldly spirituality—coalesced in what came to be known as humanism. This philosophy and its new ideas would eventually spread across Italy, yet wherever they took hold they would retain an element essential to their origin. And as they spread further across Europe, this element would remain. Transformations of human culture throughout western history have remained indelibly stamped by their origins. The Reformation would always retain something of central and northern Germany. The Industrial Revolution soon outgrew its British origins, yet also retained something of its original template. Closer to the present, the IT revolution that began in Silicon Valley remains indelibly colored by its Californian origins. Paul Strathern shows how Florence, and the Florentines themselves, played a similarly unique and transformative role in the Renaissance.
Book Synopsis The Florentine's Secret by : Jane Thornley
Download or read book The Florentine's Secret written by Jane Thornley and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florence, Italy 1996: a young archaeologist follows a hunch that compels her to knock down a wall and retrieve a hidden sketch which may be by the renown Renaissance master Botticelli. But before she can alert the authorities and claim the find, the sketch is stolen leaving her standing in the rubble. Three decades later, the drive for retribution brings this woman to Phoebe McCabe's door. The sketch may have been a study for a secret portrait, she claims, and she has enough clues to point the way to its location. When the Agency of the Ancient Lost & Found joins the hunt to track down what may become the art find of the century, little do they know that they will be dragged into the crosshairs of a ruthless arms cartel as well as plunged deep into a centuries-old mystery involving key players of Renaissance Florence. What does Lorenzo di Medici, the Bonfire of the Vanities, the artists Sandro Botticelli and Filippino Lippi have to do with a tailor's daughter who once dared to imbed a secret into a sleeve? That's only part of the story Phoebe must untangle. In the end, she must also grapple with remnants of her own past that not only come back to haunt her but chase at her heels with murderous intent. Either trump those monsters at their own game or perish. The wondrous city of Florence, past and present, combined with the sweeping vistas of Tuscany wrap the reader in visions of art, rich textiles, and political intrigue while revealing the triumph of the human spirit that thrives across the centuries. Welcome to book 3 of the Agency of the Ancient Lost & Found.
Book Synopsis Secret Florence by : Niccolò Rinaldi
Download or read book Secret Florence written by Niccolò Rinaldi and published by Editions Jonglez. This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visit a church in a prison, learn how Florence became the centre of hermetism during the Renaissance and where you can still find traces of it today, escape from the crowds of tourists to visit little-known artistic masterpieces, head off to hunt for the 34 plaques displaying quotes from the "Divine Comedy", fill up your tank at a vintage service station, have your children count the number of bees sculpted on the monument to the glory of Ferdinand I, look for the last wine distributors of the Renaissance, notice the minuscule windows designed to let children look out quietly onto the street, visit superb private gardens that even the Florentines don't know about, learn how the purple colour of the Fiorentina football team is connected to the pee of a Florentine crusader in Palestine ... Far from the crowds and usual clichés, Florence holds many well-hidden treasures that are revealed only to the city's inhabitants or travellers who know how to step off the beaten track. An essential guide for those who think they know Florence well or for those looking to discover the hidden side of the city.
Book Synopsis The Secret Book of Grazia Dei Rossi by : Jacqueline Park
Download or read book The Secret Book of Grazia Dei Rossi written by Jacqueline Park and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi is a sweeping tale of intrigue and romance set in a time rife with court politics, papal chicanery, religious intolerance, and inviolable social rules. Grazia, private secretary to the world-renowned Isabella d'Este, is the daughter of an eminent Jewish banker, the wife of the pope's Jewish physician, and the lover of a Christian prince. In a "secret book," written as a legacy for her son, she records her struggles to choose between the seductions of the Christian world and a return to the family, traditions, and duties of her Jewish roots. As she re-creates Renaissance Italy in captivating detail, Jacqueline Park gives us a timeless portrait of a brave and brilliant woman trapped in an unforgiving, inflexible society.
Book Synopsis The Sistine Secrets by : Benjamin Blech
Download or read book The Sistine Secrets written by Benjamin Blech and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-04-29 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five hundred years ago Michelangelo began work on a painting that became one of the most famous pieces of art in the world—the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Every year millions of people come to see Michelangelo's Sistine ceiling, which is the largest fresco painting on earth in the holiest of Christianity's chapels; yet there is not one single Christian image in this vast, magnificent artwork. The Sistine Secrets tells the fascinating story of how Michelangelo embedded messages of brotherhood, tolerance, and freethinking in his painting to encourage "fellow travelers" to challenge the repressive Roman Catholic Church of his time. "Driven by the truths he had come to recognize during his years of study in private nontraditional schooling in Florence, truths rooted in his involvement with Judaic texts as well as Kabbalistic training that conflicted with approved Christian doctrine, Michelangelo needed to find a way to let viewers discern what he truly believed. He could not allow the Church to forever silence his soul. And what the Church would not permit him to communicate openly, he ingeniously found a way to convey to those diligent enough to learn his secret language."—from the Preface Blech and Doliner reveal what Michelangelo meant in the angelic representations that brilliantly mocked his papal patron, how he managed to sneak unorthodox heresies into his ostensibly pious portrayals, and how he was able to fulfill his lifelong ambition to bridge the wisdom of science with the strictures of faith. The Sistine Secrets unearths secrets that have remained hidden in plain sight for centuries.
Book Synopsis Hidden Lives / Secret Gardens by : R. T. Schnadelbach
Download or read book Hidden Lives / Secret Gardens written by R. T. Schnadelbach and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: hidden lives / secret gardens is a synthetic history about gardens and human sexuality. Written in an accessible style for the garden enthusiast, the serious landscape designer, and those interested in the lives of international celebrities, the book explores the very roots of Modernism as begun in Florence, Italy in the very first year of the twentieth century. For the past twenty-years, R. Terry Schnadelbach, FAAR, Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Florida, has researched the Modernist era in landscape architecture. He authored a book, Ferruccio Vitale, Landscape Architect of the Country Place Era, on the Florentine landscape architect, who brought to America both the formal garden as well as its first Modernist landscapes. In hidden lives / secret gardens, Schnadelbach exposes the engaging and intertwined lives of a group of expatriates, their secluded hillside villas and secret new gardens that ushered a new direction in garden design. Three successive new gardens at Villas Gamberaia, La Pietra and I Tatti were among the earliest Modernist landscapes and were an inspiration many landscape professionals in Britain and America. While hidden lives / secret gardens manuscript focuses on the revival of the Renaissance aesthetic in Florence and paints a picture of each garden's history, it explores the new and emerging field of sexual psychology through the hidden lives of the Villa's owners and designers, revealing their artistic life styles, their commercial and sexual mores.
Book Synopsis Disquisitions on the Antipapal Spirit which Produced the Reformation: Its Secret Influence on the Literature of Europe in General, and of Italy in Particular ... Translated from the Italian by Miss C. Ward by : Gabriele Pasquale Giuseppe ROSSETTI
Download or read book Disquisitions on the Antipapal Spirit which Produced the Reformation: Its Secret Influence on the Literature of Europe in General, and of Italy in Particular ... Translated from the Italian by Miss C. Ward written by Gabriele Pasquale Giuseppe ROSSETTI and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Florentine History, from the Earliest Authentic Records to the Accession of Ferdinand III. Grand Duc of Tuscany by : Henry Edward Napier
Download or read book Florentine History, from the Earliest Authentic Records to the Accession of Ferdinand III. Grand Duc of Tuscany written by Henry Edward Napier and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Florentine History by : Henry Edward Napier
Download or read book Florentine History written by Henry Edward Napier and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Florentine History from the Earliest Authentic Records to the Accession of Ferdinand the Third Grand Duke of Tuscany by : Henry Edward Napier
Download or read book Florentine History from the Earliest Authentic Records to the Accession of Ferdinand the Third Grand Duke of Tuscany written by Henry Edward Napier and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of the Florentine Republic by : Lorenzo L. Da Ponte
Download or read book A History of the Florentine Republic written by Lorenzo L. Da Ponte and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of the Florentine People: Books 9-12 ; Memoirs by : Leonardo Bruni
Download or read book History of the Florentine People: Books 9-12 ; Memoirs written by Leonardo Bruni and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonardo Bruni was famous in his day as a translator, orator, and historian, and was one of the best-selling authors of the 15th century. Bruni's 'History of the Florentine People' is generally considered the first modern work of history.
Book Synopsis Saunterings in Florence by : Elvira Grifi
Download or read book Saunterings in Florence written by Elvira Grifi and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Benedetto Accolti and the Florentine Renaissance by : Robert Black
Download or read book Benedetto Accolti and the Florentine Renaissance written by Robert Black and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-08 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of one of the outstanding humanists of the fifteenth-century Renaissance.
Book Synopsis Modern Europe: 1521-1598 by : Thomas Henry Dyer
Download or read book Modern Europe: 1521-1598 written by Thomas Henry Dyer and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 1521-1598 written by Thomas Henry Dyer and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Modern Europe, from the Fall of Constantinople to the Establishment of the German Empire, A.D. 1453-1871 by : Thomas Henry Dyer
Download or read book Modern Europe, from the Fall of Constantinople to the Establishment of the German Empire, A.D. 1453-1871 written by Thomas Henry Dyer and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
