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Dynamics of Learning in Early Modern Italy
Arts and Medicine at the University of Bologna
Inbunden, 2023
494 kr
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A pathbreaking history of early modern education argues that Europe’s oldest university, often seen as a bastion of traditionalism, was in fact a vibrant site of intellectual innovation and cultural exchange.The University of Bologna was among the premier universities in medieval Europe and an …
Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance
Av Ada Palmer
Inbunden, 2014
385 kr
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After its rediscovery in 1417, Lucretius’s Epicurean didactic poem De Rerum Natura threatened to supply radicals and atheists with the one weapon unbelief had lacked in the Middle Ages: good answers. Scholars could now challenge Christian patterns of thought by employing the theory of atomistic …
Return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence
Av Alison Brown
Inbunden, 2010
440 kr
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In this first comprehensive study of the effect of Lucretius's De rerum natura on Florentine thought in the Renaissance, Alison Brown demonstrates how Lucretius was used by Florentine thinkers—earlier and more widely than has been supposed—to provide a radical critique of prevailing orthodoxies.To …
Abortion in Early Modern Italy
Inbunden, 2021
583 kr
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A comprehensive history of abortion in Renaissance Italy.In this authoritative history, John Christopoulos provides a provocative and far-reaching account of abortion in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy. His poignant portraits of women who terminated or were forced to terminate pregnancies …
Love and Sex in the Time of Plague
A Decameron Renaissance
Inbunden, 2021
476 kr
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As a pandemic swept across fourteenth-century Europe, the Decameron offered the ill and grieving a symphony of life and love.For Florentines, the world seemed to be coming to an end. In 1348 the first wave of the Black Death swept across the Italian city, reducing its population from more than …
In Defense of Common Sense
Lorenzo Valla's Humanist Critique of Scholastic Philosophy
Av Lodi Nauta
Inbunden, 2009
522 kr
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One of the leading humanists of Quattrocento Italy, Lorenzo Valla (ca. 1406–1457) has been praised as a brilliant debunker of medieval scholastic philosophy. In this book Lodi Nauta seeks a more balanced assessment, presenting us with the first comprehensive analysis of the humanist’s attempt at …
Venice's Most Loyal City
Civic Identity in Renaissance Brescia
Inbunden, 2010
494 kr
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By the second decade of the fifteenth century Venice had established an empire in Italy extending from its lagoon base to the lakes, mountains, and valleys of the northwestern part of the peninsula. The wealthiest and most populous part of this empire was the city of Brescia which, together with …
Writing History in Renaissance Italy
Leonardo Bruni and the Uses of the Past
Av Gary Ianziti
Inbunden, 2012
600 kr
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Leonardo Bruni (1370–1444) is widely recognized as the most important humanist historian of the early Renaissance. But why this recognition came about—and what it has meant for the field of historiography—has long been a matter of confusion and controversy. Writing History in Renaissance Italy …
Printing a Mediterranean World
Florence, Constantinople, and the Renaissance of Geography
Av Sean Roberts
Inbunden, 2013
573 kr
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In 1482, the Florentine humanist and statesman Francesco Berlinghieri produced the Geographia, a book of over one hundred folio leaves describing the world in Italian verse, inspired by the ancient Greek geography of Ptolemy. The poem, divided into seven books (one for each day of the week the …
Duke and the Stars
Astrology and Politics in Renaissance Milan
Inbunden, 2013
557 kr
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This study is the first to examine the important political role played by astrology in Italian court culture. Reconstructing the powerful dynamics existing between astrologers and their prospective or existing patrons, The Duke and the Stars illustrates how the “predictive art” of astrology was a …
Cultures of Charity
Women, Politics, and the Reform of Poor Relief in Renaissance Italy
Inbunden, 2013
564 kr
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Renaissance Italians pioneered radical changes in ways of helping the poor, including orphanages, workhouses, pawnshops, and women’s shelters. Nicholas Terpstra shows that gender was the key factor driving innovation. Most of the recipients of charity were women. The most creative new plans focused …
Convert’s Tale
Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy
Av Tamar Herzig
Inbunden, 2019
502 kr
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An intimate portrait, based on newly discovered archival sources, of one of the most famous Jewish artists of the Italian Renaissance who, charged with a scandalous crime, renounced his faith and converted to Catholicism.In 1491 the renowned goldsmith Salomone da Sesso converted to Catholicism. …
Giannozzo Manetti
The Life of a Florentine Humanist
Av David Marsh
Inbunden, 2019
518 kr
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An introduction to one of the premier humanists of the Italian Renaissance, whose extraordinary work in biography, politics, religion, and philosophy has been largely unknown to Anglophone readers.A celebrated orator, historian, philosopher, and statesman, Giannozzo Manetti (1396–1459) was one of …
Forgotten Healers
Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy
Inbunden, 2019
502 kr
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Winner of the Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science PrizeA new history uncovers the crucial role women played in the great transformations of medical science and health care that accompanied the Italian Renaissance.In Renaissance Italy women played a more central role in providing health …
Milan Undone
Contested Sovereignties in the Italian Wars
Av John Gagné
Inbunden, 2021
476 kr
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A new history of how one of the Renaissance’s preeminent cities lost its independence in the Italian Wars.In 1499, the duchy of Milan had known independence for one hundred years. But the turn of the sixteenth century saw the city battered by the Italian Wars. As the major powers of Europe battled …
Niccolò di Lorenzo della Magna and the Social World of Florentine Printing, ca. 1470–1493
Inbunden, 2021
476 kr
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A new history of one of the foremost printers of the Renaissance explores how the Age of Print came to Italy.Lorenz Böninger offers a fresh history of the birth of print in Italy through the story of one of its most important figures, Niccolò di Lorenzo della Magna. After having worked for several …
Tuscany in the Age of Empire
Av Brian Brege
Inbunden, 2021
529 kr
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Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book PrizeA new history explores how one of Renaissance Italy’s leading cities maintained its influence in an era of global exploration, trade, and empire.The Grand Duchy of Tuscany was not an imperial power, but it did harbor global ambitions. …
Being a Jesuit in Renaissance Italy
Biographical Writing in the Early Global Age
Inbunden, 2022
445 kr
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A new history illuminates the Society of Jesus in its first century from the perspective of those who knew it best: the early Jesuits themselves.The Society of Jesus was established in 1540. In the century that followed, thousands sought to become Jesuits and pursue vocations in religious service, …
Translating Faith
Ethiopian Pilgrims in Renaissance Rome
Inbunden, 2024
479 kr
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A revealing account of the lives and work of Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims in sixteenth-century Rome, examining how this African diasporic community navigated the challenges of religious pluralism in the capital of Latin Christianity.Tucked behind the apse of Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome is the …
Veil of Silence
Women and Sound in Renaissance Italy
Inbunden, 2024
494 kr
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An illuminating study of early modern efforts to regulate sound in women’s residential institutions, and how the noises of city life—both within and beyond their walls—defied such regulation.Amid the Catholic reforms of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the number of women and girls housed …
Feeding the Eternal City
Jewish and Christian Butchers in the Roman Ghetto
Av Kenneth Stow
Inbunden, 2024
393 kr
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A surprising history of interfaith collaboration in the Roman Ghetto, where for three centuries Jewish and Christian butchers worked together to provision the city despite the proscriptions of Church law.For Rome’s Jewish population, confined to a ghetto between 1555 and 1870, efforts to secure …
State Drug
Theriac, Pharmacy, and Politics in Early Modern Italy
Av Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore
Inbunden, 2025
449 kr
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A revelatory account of the “wonder drug” theriac, which became a powerful tool in the hands of medical and political authorities at the height of the Italian Renaissance.From the 1490s, one of the most influential remedies to circulate in Europe was the “wonder drug” theriac. Although it had been …
What God Kept for Himself
Atheism, Sodomy, and Radical Dissent in Renaissance Italy
Inbunden, 2026
308 kr
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A revelatory account of sexual nonconformity and radical religious dissent in Renaissance Italy, drawing on never-before-studied Inquisition trials.Between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, a series of highly controversial Inquisition trials took place throughout the Italian peninsula. The …
Daughters of Alchemy
Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy
Inbunden, 2015
496 kr
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The era of the Scientific Revolution has long been epitomized by Galileo. Yet many women were at its vanguard, deeply invested in empirical culture. They experimented with medicine and practical alchemy at home, at court, and through collaborative networks of practitioners. In academies, salons, …
Everyday Renaissances
The Quest for Cultural Legitimacy in Venice
Inbunden, 2016
511 kr
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The world of wealth and patronage that we associate with sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Italy can make the Renaissance seem the exclusive domain of artists and aristocrats. Revealing a Renaissance beyond Michelangelo and the Medici, Sarah Gwyneth Ross recovers the experiences of everyday …
Fruit of Liberty
Political Culture in the Florentine Renaissance, 1480-1550
Inbunden, 2013
555 kr
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In the middle decades of the sixteenth century, the republican city-state of Florence--birthplace of the Renaissance--failed. In its place the Medici family created a principality, becoming first dukes of Florence and then grand dukes of Tuscany. The Fruit of Liberty examines how this transition …
Reviving the Eternal City
Rome and the Papal Court, 1420-1447
Inbunden, 2013
557 kr
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In 1420, after more than one hundred years of the Avignon Exile and the Western Schism, the papal court returned to Rome, which had become depopulated, dangerous, and impoverished in the papacy's absence. Reviving the Eternal City examines the culture of Rome and the papal court during the first …
Orpheus in the Marketplace
Jacopo Peri and the Economy of Late Renaissance Florence
Av Tim Carter, Richard A. Goldthwaite
Inbunden, 2013
555 kr
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The Florentine musician Jacopo Peri (1561-1633) is known as the composer of the first operas--they include the earliest to survive complete, Euridice (1600), in which Peri sang the role of Orpheus. A large collection of recently discovered account books belonging to him and his family allows for a …
Mattress Maker’s Daughter
The Renaissance Romance of Don Giovanni de’ Medici and Livia Vernazza
Inbunden, 2014
564 kr
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A Mattress Maker’s Daughter richly illuminates the narrative of two people whose mutual affection shaped their own lives and in some ways their times. According to the Renaissance legend, told and retold across the centuries, a woman of questionable reputation bamboozles a middle-aged …
Prince’s Body
Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance Medicine
Inbunden, 2015
423 kr
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Defining the proper female body, seeking elective surgery for beauty, enjoying lavish spa treatments, and combating impotence might seem like today’s celebrity infatuations. However, these preoccupations were very much alive in the early modern period. Valeria Finucci recounts the story of a …
