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Winner of the Helen and Howard Marraro Prize A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year Perhaps the greatest study ever written of Renaissance political thought. Jeffrey Collins, Times Literary Supplement MagisterialHankins shows that the humani...

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Civic humanism has been one of the most influential of all concepts in the history of ideas. In this volume, an eminent team of political theorists and historians of ideas have been brought together to reassess the impact on the subject of the pio...

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The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy, published in 2007, provides an introduction to a complex period of change in the subject matter and practice of philosophy. The philosophy of the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries is often se...

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Civic humanism has been one of the most influential of all concepts in the history of ideas. In this volume, an eminent team of political theorists and historians of ideas have been brought together to reassess the impact on the subject of the pio...

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The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy, published in 2007, provides an introduction to a complex period of change in the subject matter and practice of philosophy. The philosophy of the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries is often se...

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The Platonic Theology is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. A student of the Neoplatonic sch...

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The Platonic Theology is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. A student of the Neoplatonic sch...

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The Platonic Theology is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (14331499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. A student of the Neoplatonic scho...

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The Platonic Theology is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. A student of the Neoplatonic sch...

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The Platonic Theology is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. A student of the Neoplatonic sch...

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The Platonic Theology is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. A student of the Neoplatonic sch...

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Winner of the Helen and Howard Marraro Prize A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year A bold, revisionist account of the political thought of the Italian Renaissancefrom Petrarch to Machiavellithat reveals the all-important role of character i...

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Winner of the Helen and Howard Marraro PrizeA Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year"e;Perhaps the greatest study ever written of Renaissance political thought."e;-Jeffrey Collins, Times Literary Supplement"e;Magisterial...Hankins ...

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James Loeb (18671933), one of the great patrons and philanthropists of his time, left many enduring legacies both to America, where he was born and educated, and to his ancestral Germany, where he spent the second half of his life. Organized in ce...

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The first full-length study of Francesco Patrizithe most important political philosopher of the Italian Renaissance before Machiavelliwho sought to reconcile conflicting claims of liberty and equality in the service of good governance. At the hear...

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The first full-length study of Francesco Patrizi-the most important political philosopher of the Italian Renaissance before Machiavelli-who sought to reconcile conflicting claims of liberty and equality in the service of good governance.At the hea...

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The Correspondence of James Boswell with James Bruce and Andrew Gibb, Overseers of the Auchinleck Estate

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This volume, ninth in the Research Series of correspondence in the Yale Boswell Editions, assembles the bulk of the surviving letters between the young Boswell and his circle of friends and acquaintances in a period crucial to his personal and aut...

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This book was written for all readers from eight to 128 years young, located in all fifty states, D.C and beyond. I took microscopic looks at many of the problems we face every day and/or seasons. Those in education, religion, family, jobs, discri...

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This book was written for all readers from eight to 128 years young, located in all fifty states, D.C and beyond. I took microscopic looks at many of the problems we face every day and/or seasons. Those in education, religion, family, jobs, discri...

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The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy, published in 2007, provides an introduction to a complex period of change in the subject matter and practice of philosophy. The philosophy of the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries is often se...

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The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy, published in 2007, provides an introduction to a complex period of change in the subject matter and practice of philosophy. The philosophy of the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries is often se...

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This book is about the three vital components that made the Black race great. Belief in God, thurst for education and the working together of family members. These items were the rule. Today, for far too many familes, they are the exception. In th...

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In one hand, small-time crook Stokes holds a backpack stuffed with someone elses moneythree hundred and fifty thousand dollars of it.In the other hand, Stokes has a cell phone, which he found with the money. On the line, a little girl he doesnt kn...

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Five days ago, aspiring crime novelist Jason Swike awoke chained to the wall of a run-down horse stable, convinced he would soon die at the hands of Crackerjack, the infamous serial killer who had terrorized the residents of Massachusetts for the ...

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The Golden Thread Volume One: The Ancient World and Christendom. Beginning with the seminal culture of the classical Greeks and the Hellenic expansion, followed by the rise and dominance Rome and the emergence of medieval Christendom, before culmi...

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With the end of the Renaissance in Europe, the Western world experienced a long series of cataclysmic events that still reverberate in modern society. The Golden Thread Volume Two: The Modern and Contemporary West begins with the end of the domina...

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