Poetry at Court in Trastamaran Spain: From the Cancionero de Baena to the Cancionero General


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The Way Through the Mountains


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Hired to find out why work on the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Railroad's Colorado tunnel was at a standstill, MacWhirter goes to Bear Rock. There MacWhirter discovers sabotage and theft. And soon he finds himself in a standoff with a mysterious tycoon and his gunslingers.




The Unknown Leonardo


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A brief account of his boyhood and an illustrated chronology of his adult life, his works, and the cultured and political events that helped shape Leonardo's world.




Leonardo. Portrait of a master


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Architetto e scultore, pittore e ingegnere, studioso di anatomia e scrittore: la vita di Leonardo da Vinci, il genio più versatile del Rinascimento. IN LINGUA INGLESE







Machiavelli


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The man whose name is shorthand for all that is ugly in politics was more nuanced than his reputation suggests. Christopher Celenza’s portrait of Machiavelli removes the varnish to reveal not just the hardnosed philosopher but the skilled diplomat, learned commentator on ancient history, comic playwright, tireless letter writer, and thwarted lover.




Venice Reconsidered


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Venice Reconsidered offers a dynamic portrait of Venice from the establishment of the Republic at the end of the thirteenth century to its fall to Napoleon in 1797. In contrast to earlier efforts to categorize Venice's politics as strictly republican and its society as rigidly tripartite and hierarchical, the scholars in this volume present a more fluid and complex interpretation of Venetian culture. Drawing on a variety of disciplines—history, art history, and musicology—these essays present innovative variants of the myth of Venice—that nearly inexhaustible repertoire of stories Venetians told about themselves.




The Image of Irelande


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