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Author : Richard Shirley Smith
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Messer Pietro mio written by Richard Shirley Smith and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lucrezia Borgia
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781567921632
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (216 download)
Download or read book Prettiest Love Letters in the World written by Lucrezia Borgia and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2001 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If history remembers Lucrezia Borgia at all, it is as a woman of extravagant vices whose name has become synonymous with political intrigue and poison. Cardinal Bembo is remembered primarily as the namesake of a popular typeface. But as this book of letters reveals, there was real substance, and real faces, to both of them. Borgia, a child bride who was ruthlessly exploited for political advantage by her three husbands, proved to be a girl of surprising resilience and cunning, anything but a monster. Pietro Bembo, the learned and (as demonstrated here) surpassingly gentle scholar, was the perfect product of the Renaissance. The covert love affair they conducted over sixteen years under the nose of Borgia s ruthless brother, Cesare, was as dangerous as it was impassioned and their letters, which provide a unique record of life during the Italian Renaissance, are a testament both to a relationship of rare beauty and to a feudal society of strict boundaries, dark dynastic drives, boundless political ambition, and extraordinary gallantry. Set in (what else?) Monotype Bembo, illustrated with the charming and delicate wood engravings of Shirley Smith, this elegant paperback will be a memorable gift for modern lovers.
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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385051134
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (85 download)
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Author : Aileen Astorga Feng
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487511809
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Writing Beloveds written by Aileen Astorga Feng and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-01-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering a period from the late-fourteenth to mid-sixteenth century, Aileen A. Feng’s engagingly written work identifies and analyzes a Latin humanist precursor to the poetic movement known as Renaissance Petrarchism. Though Petrachism is usually read solely as a vernacular poetic tradition, in Writing Beloveds, Feng recovers the initial political purposes in Latin prose and traces how poetry set the terms for gender, agency, and power in early modern Italy. By revealing the literary motifs in men’s and women’s writing about gender she maps how certain figures in Petrarch’s writing transmitted gendered ideas of power and reflected a growing anxiety about women as public figures. This work includes nuanced analyses of poetry, linguistic treatises, debates on imitation, representations of gender and epistolary correspondence in Latin and Italian. Writing Beloveds is a landmark study that highlights the new social reality of women writers in early modern Europe.
Author : Richard Duppa
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Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Life of Michel Angelo Buonarroti written by Richard Duppa and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Scandrett Harford
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Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Life of Michael Angelo Buonarroti, 2 written by John Scandrett Harford and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Scandrett HARFORD
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Life of Michael Angelo Buonarroti; with Translations of Many of His Poems and Letters. Also Memoirs of Savonarola, Raphael, and Victoria Colonna written by John Scandrett HARFORD and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Strathern
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643131834
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)
Download or read book The Borgias written by Paul Strathern and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice and vicious cruelty—all have been associated with their name. And yet, paradoxically, this family lived when the Renaissance was coming into its full flowering in Italy. Examples of infamy flourished alongside some of the finest art produced in western history.This is but one of several paradoxes associated with the Borgia family. For the family which produced corrupt popes, depraved princes and poisoners, would also produce a saint. Previously history has tended to condemn, or attempt in part to exonerate, this remarkable family. Yet in order to understand the Borgias, the Borgias must be related to their time, together with the world which enabled them to flourish. Within this context the Renaissance itself takes on a very different aspect. Was the corruption part of the creation, or vice versa? Would one have been possible without the other?The powerful forces which first played out in the amphitheaters of ancient Greece: hubris, incest, murder, rivalries and doomed families, treacheries of political power, twists of fate—they are all here. Along with the final, tragic downfall. All these elements are played out in full in the glorious and infamous history of the Borgia family.
Author : John S. Harford
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3375159129
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (751 download)
Download or read book The Life of Michael Angelo Bounarroti written by John S. Harford and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.
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Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The New Bookbinder written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robin Healey
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442642696
Total Pages : 1185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Italian Literature Before 1900 in English Translation written by Robin Healey and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 1185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation provides the most complete record possible of texts from the early periods that have been translated into English, and published between 1929 and 2008. It lists works from all genres and subjects, and includes translations wherever they have appeared across the globe. In this annotated bibliography, Robin Healey covers over 5,200 distinct editions of pre-1900 Italian writings. Most entries are accompanied by useful notes providing information on authors, works, translators, and how the translations were received. Among the works by over 1,500 authors represented in this volume are hundreds of editions by Italy's most translated authors - Dante Alighieri, [Niccoláo] Machiavelli, and [Giovanni] Boccaccio - and other hundreds which represent the author's only English translation. A significant number of entries describe works originally published in Latin. Together with Healey's Twentieth-Century Italian Literature in English Translation, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature."--Pub. desc.
Author : Richard Duppa
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Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Life and Literary Works of Michel Angelo Buonarroti written by Richard Duppa and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lucrezia Borgia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Prettiest Love Letters in the World written by Lucrezia Borgia and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Sherrer Ross Boase
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691252211
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Giorgio Vasari written by Thomas Sherrer Ross Boase and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A striking account of Vasari’s career, friendships, and contribution to the art of the Italian Renaissance Vasari’s Lives of the Most Excellent Architects, Painters, and Sculptors, first published in 1550, fixed for three hundred years general European views about the art of the Renaissance, and its influence still lingers today. While much has been written about Vasari’s writings, comparatively few full-length studies have dealt with the man himself. In this book, T.S.R. Boase offers a compelling account of Vasari’s life and career. At the same time, Boase explores Vasari’s ideas about the art and artists he described in the two editions of his Lives, placing these reflections in their contemporary context and later developments in art history and criticism. The result is an important appraisal of Vasari’s achievement, which despite its imperfections is without parallel in the history of Western art.
Author : Emma Lucas
Publisher : New Word City
ISBN 13 : 1612308155
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Lucrezia Borgia written by Emma Lucas and published by New Word City. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories about the Lucrezia Borgia's life - ruthless manipulator, possessor of a poison ring, sexual predator - often overshadow the more nuanced and fascinating story of her life. She was born on April 18, 1480, the illegitimate daughter of future Pope Alexander VI, then Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia and his long-time mistress Vannozza dei Cattanei. She inherited her mother's stunning looks - she was known for her slender figure, gray-blue eyes, and blonde hair. When her father became pope, he sought to consolidate his power and arranged a marriage between fourteen-year-old Lucrezia and the first of her three husbands, twenty-eight-year-old Giovanni Sforza. Shortly after the marriage, Alexander, concluded he no longer needed an alliance with the Sforza family. He ordered Giovanni's assassination, but when the young bridegroom escaped, ended Lucrezia's marriage by ordering an annulment. Following the lengthy annulment process - during which Lucrezia was accused of having an affair and a child with Alexander's chamberlain Pedro Calderon, whose body was later found floating in Rome's Tiber River, “where he fell against his will” - Lucrezia was married to Alfonso of Aragon in 1498. Alexander appointed a pregnant Lucrezia governor of the Umbrian town of Spoleto in 1499. Alfonso, wary of shifting political alliances, fled Rome for a brief time, but returned in 1500, where he was murdered. Alfonso left Lucrezia with a son, Rodrigo. After Alfonso's conveniently timed murder, Alexander arranged a third marriage for Lucrezia, to Alfonso I d'Este, a powerful duke. The two had several children, and Lucrezia came into her own as a Renaissance woman, overcoming her scandalous reputation - despite several affairs - and maintaining her position and power as the Borgia family's influence and fortunes fell following Alexander's death. Lucrezia Borgia was a woman of and ahead of her time. Here is her little-told story.
Author : Sarah Bradford
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101525347
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Lucrezia Borgia written by Sarah Bradford and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The very name Lucrezia Borgia conjures up everything that was sinister and corrupt about the Renaissance—incest, political assassination, papal sexual abuse, poisonous intrigue, unscrupulous power grabs. Yet, as bestselling biographer Sarah Bradford reveals in this breathtaking new portrait, the truth is far more fascinating than the myth. Neither a vicious monster nor a seductive pawn, Lucrezia Borgia was a shrewd, determined woman who used her beauty and intelligence to secure a key role in the political struggles of her day. Drawing from a trove of contemporary documents and fascinating firsthand accounts, Bradford brings to life the art, the pageantry, and the dangerous politics of the Renaissance world Lucrezia Borgia helped to create.
Author : Edward Elias Lowinsky
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Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Adrian Willaert's Chromatic "duo" Re-examined written by Edward Elias Lowinsky and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
