The birthplace of Boccaccio, Machiavelli, and the powerful Medici family, Florence was also the first great banking and
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This new English translation of Merchant Writers includes all the texts from the original Italian edition in their entir
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The beer of today—brewed from malted grain and hops, manufactured by large and often multinational corporations, frequen
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A collection of essays exploring ideologies and discourses that center on sexual otherness in medieval Iberian cultures.
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Florence has one remarkable distinction, apart from the honour of having given birth to the Renaissance. It has the larg
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