Ingrid D. Rowland

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1.		Giordano Bruno: Philosopher/Heretic from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $17.82 Customer Review: Here Ingrid Rowland continues to demonstrate her profound mastery of the society and space of sixteenth-century Rome. Unlike most other accounts, Rowland emphasizes Bruno's role as a writer and shows that his fiery death at the stake in the Campo de' Fiori provoked change in the policy of the Roman... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

2.		Vitruvius: Ten Books on Architecture from Cambridge University Press Price: $31.49 Customer Review: Th Ten Books are a must for every architecture student. I must confess I did not read it all at the time of my first year...But Vitruvius' masterpiece on architecture is definitely a must read.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

3.		The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery from University Of Chicago Press Price: $15.00 Customer Review: I have no particular interest in archaeology, but this true account of a 17th century Etruscan archaeology forgery kept me completely engaged until I finished it. The author makes it quite clear almost from the first chapter that the the find is forgery, so there's little mystery to the book. But... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

4.		The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome from Cambridge University Press Customer Review: It is nearly impossible to overpraise Ingrid Rowland's book. Strikingly original, _The Culture of the High Renaissance_ is a dazzling display of scholarship and one of the finest examples of historical writing in recent memory. There is exceptional erudition here--her work is a feast of information,... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

5.		From Heaven to Arcadia: The Sacred and the Profane in the Renaissance from New York Review Books Price: $12.21	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

6.		The Ecstatic Journey: Athanasius Kircher in Baroque Rome from Joseph Regenstein Library, The Universit Customer Review: This catalogue, which documents an exhibition held at the University of Chicago Library two years ago, serves as a fine introduction to Kircher, as well as an important constellation of figures at the heart of seventeenth century Baroque Rome. Kircher, one of the most prodigious of seventeenth... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

7.	[no image]	The keys to St. Peter's.(Letter From Rome): An article from: American Scholar from Thomson Gale Price: $5.95	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

8.	[no image]	The Roman Garden of Agostino Chigi from Gerson Lectures Foundation	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

9.	[no image]	The Ecstatic Journey: Athanasius Kircher in Baroque Rome from Univ of Chicago Pr	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

10.	[no image]	Peaceable Kingdom: the power of nature and the nature of our power over it.(The Medici Giraffe and Other Tales of Exotic Animlas and Power)(Book review): An article from: American Scholar from Thomson Gale Price: $9.95	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

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