Bruges
and the Renaissance: Memling to Pourbus
by Maximiliaan P. J. Martens (Editor), et al
(Hardcover - June 1999)
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
by Ross King
Listed under History of Architecture
The
Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization
by Walter D. Mignolo
(Paperback -- June 1997)
The
House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall
by Hibbert Christopher
It was a dynasty with more wealth, passion, and power than the houses
of Windsor, Kennedy, and Rockefeller combined. It shaped all of Europe
and controlled politics, scientists, artists, and even popes, for three
hundred years. It was the house of Medici, patrons of Botticelli, Michelangelo
and Galileo, benefactors who turned Florence into a global power center,
and then lost it all. The House of Medici picks up where Barbara Tuchman's
Hibbert delves into the lives of the Medici family, whose legacy of increasing
self-indulgence and sexual dalliance eventually led to its self-destruction.
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Paperback: 384 pages
Quill; ISBN: 0688053394; (June 1999) |
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The
Italian Renaissance
by J. H. Plumb
(Paperback -- June 2001)
Giordano
Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition
by Frances A. Yates
(Paperback -- February 1991)
The
Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Modern Library Classics)
by Jacob Burckhardt, et al
(Paperback -- April 9, 2002)
Fortune
Is a River : Leonardo Da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli's Magnificent Dream
to Change the Course of Florentine History
by Roger D. Masters
History is sometimes made by seemingly insignificant moments that turn
out to have been pivotal in hindsight--and sometimes what didn't happen
proves to be as important as what did. One such moment came in the Florentine
court of Cesare Borgia, when a civil servant named Niccolò
Machiavelli recruited a local engineer named Leonardo
da Vinci to devise a plan to change the course of the Arno River. Diverting
that river, Machiavelli reasoned, would deprive Florence's enemy, the nearby
city-state of Pisa, of a dependable water supply. It would also make the
Arno River navigable for oceangoing vessels from the inland city of Florence,
and as an added incentive, would help limit damage caused by the flood-prone
Arno to the surrounding farmlands.
Machiavelli and da Vinci devised a hydrological plan for the river that
was extraordinarily promising, at least on paper. The flood-prone Arno,
however, made the task an impossible challenge. The pair's chances of success
were further reduced by poor design, bad timing, and undisciplined workers.
Their failure brought official disfavor on Machiavelli and da Vinci alike.
Leonardo transferred his studio to Milan and then Rome, where he would
produce remarkable work, while Machiavelli retreated from public life for
a time and used his forced leisure to write The Prince. Roger Masters crafts
an epic tale out of a historical footnote. Although some of his conclusions
are speculative in regards to Niccolò's and Leonardo's relationship,
readers will likely find his narrative persuasive and deeply informed.
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Paperback: 288 pages
Plume; ISBN: 0452280907; (June 1999)
The
Measure of Reality : Quantification in Western Europe, 1250-1600
by Alfred
W. Crosby
Hardcover from Cambridge University Press
Book Published: 28 November, 1996
Patterns of Fashion: The Cut and Construction of Clothes for Men
and Women C1560-1620
by Janet Arnold
Listed under Medieval Costume
Ottoman
Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire
by Lord Kinross
(Paperback -- September 1988)
The
Renaissance
by Will Durant, et al
(Hardcover -- September 1983)
The
Renaissance at War
by Thomas Arnold, John Keegan (Editor)
Hardcover: 224 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.99 x
10.74 x 8.06
Cassell Academic; ISBN: 0304352705; (March 2001)
Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory (Cambridge Studies
in Renaissance Literature and Culture, 38)
by Ann Rosalind Jones (Author), Peter Stallybrass
Listed under Medieval Costume
Uppity
Women of the Renaissance
by Vicki Leon
(Paperback -- March 1999)
Renaissance
Florence
by Gene Adam Brucker
Paperback: 318 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.83 x
8.16 x 5.49
University of California Press; ISBN: 0520046951; Reprint
edition (April 1983)
The
Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
by Jerry Brotton
(Hardcover -- September 2002)
Radical
Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750
from Oxford Univ Pr (Txt)
The
Structures of Everyday Life: The Limits of the Possible (Civilization and
Capitalism: 15th-18th Century)
by Fernand Braudel, Sian Reynolds (Translator)
Paperback: 623 pages
University of California Press; ISBN: 0520081145; Reprint
edition (October 1992)
Tapestry
in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence
by Thomas P. Campbell, et al
(Hardcover)
Virtue
and Magnificence: Art Of the Italian Renaissance Courts
by Alison Cole
113 illustrations, 96 in color.
Paperback: 192 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.75 x
9.25 x 6.75
Publisher: Harry N Abrams; ; (May 1995)
ISBN: 0810927330
The
Waning of the Renaissance, 1550-1640 (Intellectual History of the West
Series)
by William James Bouwsma
Hardcover - 352 pages (February 2001)
Yale Univ Pr; ISBN: 0300085370
A
World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance Portrait
of an Age
by William Manchester
(Paperback -- June 1993)
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