The Bookseller of Florence: Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance 9781473561021, 9781784742652, 1473561027

The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance 0802158528, 9780802158529

The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings―the dazzling handiwork of the ci

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The Portrait in Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts

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Illuminated Manuscripts 9781780420882, 1780420889

Those who have had the chance to hold a medieval manuscript in their hands cannot fail to have been impressed by the fee

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Knots, or the Violence of Desire in Renaissance Florence 9780226822525

An interdisciplinary study of hair through the art, philosophy, and science of fifteenth-century Florence. In this innov

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The Civic World of Early Renaissance Florence 9780691601380, 9781400847853, 9780691631097

Professor Brucker contends that changes in the social order provide the key to understanding the transition of Florence

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The Bookseller of Inverness 9781529414196

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The economy of Renaissance Florence 9780801896880, 9780801889820, 9781421400594

Richard A. Goldthwaite, a leading economic historian of the Italian Renaissance, has spent his career studying the Flore

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The return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence 9780674050327

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Orpheus in the marketplace: Jacopo Peri and the economy of late Renaissance Florence 9780674726574, 9780674724648

The Florentine musician Jacopo Peri (1561-1633) is known as the composer of the first operas--they include the earliest

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Household and Lineage in Renaissance Florence: the Family Life of the Capponi, Ginori, and Rucellai 0691052379

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