The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo 9781786498731

The Florentines 9781643137322, 9781643137339

A sweeping and magisterial four-hundred-year history of both the city and the people who gave birth to the Renaissance.

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Mapping the Afterlife: From Homer to Dante 0190670487, 9780190670481

This book is a tour of Afterlife landscapes from Homer to Dante. It argues that the topography of the Afterlife in Greek

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Galileo

La historia de Galileo Galilei es la de un hombre que con escasos recursos y enfrentándose al oscurantismo de su tiempo

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To Save the Phenomena: An Essay on the Idea of Physical Theory from Plato to Galileo 9780226381657

Duhem's 1908 essay questions the relation between physical theory and metaphysics and, more specifically, between a

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From St. Francis to Dante: Translations from the Chronicle of the Franciscan Salimbene, 1221-1288 [Reprint 2016 ed.] 9781512818550

"Salimbene, the thirteenth-century friar, presents to the modern reader an extraordinarily vivid vision of his worl

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To save the phenomena : an essay on the idea of physical theory from Plato to Galileo 9780226169217, 0226169219

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The Return of Proserpina: Cultural Poetics of Sicily from Cicero to Dante 0691227187, 9780691227184

Sicily and the strategies of empire in the poetic imagination of classical and medieval Europe In the first century BC,

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The Return of Proserpina: Cultural Poetics of Sicily from Cicero to Dante 9780691227160

Sicily and the strategies of empire in the poetic imagination of classical and medieval Europe In the first century BC,

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The Metaphysics of Love: Studies in Renaissance Love Poetry from Dante to Milton 0521259088, 9780521259088

This book is an important study of European love poetry from Dante to Milton. It contrasts some of the ways whereby majo

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Dante

«El estilo y el ingenio de este hombre me fascinan, y todo cuanto diga de él es poco. A todos cuantos me han preguntado

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