Librarium
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 33,71 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Bibliomania
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French Book-plates
Author : Walter Hamilton
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 16,40 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Bookplates
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General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher :
Page : 1288 pages
File Size : 37,72 MB
Release : 1967
Category : English imprints
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Intentions
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 24,13 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Art critics
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The Letters of The Younger Pliny
Author : the younger Pliny
Publisher : Lebooks Editora
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 40,90 MB
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 6558942380
Book Description
The Letters of Pliny the Younger, also known as the Epistles of Pliny the Younger, have been studied for centuries, as they offer a unique and intimate glimpse into the daily life of Romans in the 1st century AD. Through his letters, the Roman writer and lawyer Pliny the Younger (whose full name was Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus) discusses philosophical and moral issues; but he also talks about everyday matters and topics related to his administrative duties. One of these letters, Letter 16 from Book VI, addressed to Tacitus, holds unparalleled historical value. In it, Pliny describes the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, which destroyed the city of Pompeii. Many scholars claim that with his letters, Pliny invented a new literary genre: the letter written not only to establish pleasant communication with peers but also to publish it later. Pliny compiled copies of every letter he wrote throughout his life and published those he considered the best in twelve books. This edition presents selected letters chosen for their various characteristics and covering several books, focusing mainly on Books I, II, and III. The work is part of the famous collection: 501 Books You Must Read.
Instructions Concerning Erecting of a Library
Author : Gabriel Naudé
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Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,52 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Books
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A Companion to the Abbey of Le Bec in the Central Middle Ages (11th–13th Centuries)
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,77 MB
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9004351906
Book Description
This Companion to the Abbey of Le Bec in the Central Middle Ages (11th–13th Centuries) offers the first major collection of studies dedicated to the medieval abbey of Le Bec, one of the most important, and perhaps the single most influential, monastery in the Anglo-Norman world. Following its foundation in 1034 by a knight-turned-hermit called Herluin, Le Bec soon developed into a religious, cultural and intellectual hub whose influence extended throughout Normandy and beyond. The fourteen chapters gathered in this Companion are written by internationally renowned experts of Anglo-Norman studies, and together they address the history of this important medieval institution in its many exciting facets. The broad range of scholarly perspectives combined in this volume includes historical and religious studies, prosopography and biography, palaeography and codicology, studies of space and identity, as well as theology and medicine. Contributors are Richard Allen, Elma Brenner, Laura Cleaver, Jean-Hervé Foulon, Giles E.M. Gasper, Laura L. Gathagan, Véronique Gazeau, Leonie V. Hicks, Elizabeth Kuhl, Benjamin Pohl, Julie Potter, Elisabeth van Houts, Steven Vanderputten, Sally N. Vaughn, and Jenny Weston.
Orestes
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 12,15 MB
Release : 2013-08-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1627933212
Book Description
Orestes was produced in 1750, an experiment which intensely interested the literary world and the public. In his Dedicatory Letters to the Duchess of Maine, Voltaire has the following passage on the Greek drama: "We should not, I acknowledge, endeavor to imitate what is weak and defective in the ancients: it is most probable that their faults were well known to their contemporaries. I am satisfied, Madam, that the wits of Athens condemned, as well as you, some of those repetitions, and some declamations with which Sophocles has loaded his Electra: they must have observed that he had not dived deep enough into the human heart. I will moreover fairly confess, that there are beauties peculiar not only to the Greek language, but to the climate, to manners and times, which it would be ridiculous to transplant hither. Therefore I have not copied exactly the Electra of Sophocles-much more I knew would be necessary; but I have taken, as well as I could, all the spirit and substance of it."
The Fabrication of Leonardo da Vinci’s Trattato della pittura (2 vols.)
Author : Claire Farago
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1371 pages
File Size : 12,14 MB
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 900435378X
Book Description
The basis for our understanding of Leonardo’s theory of art was, for over 150 years, his Treatise on Painting, which was issued in 1651 in Italian and French. This present volume offers both the first scholarly edition of the Italian editio princeps as well as the first complete English translation of this seminal work. In addition, It provides a comprehensive study of the Italian first edition, documenting how each editorial campaign that lead to it produced a different understanding of the artist’s theory. What emerges is a rich cultural and textual history that foregrounds the transmission of artisanal knowledge from Leonardo’s workshop in the Duchy of Milan to Carlo Borromeo’s Milan, Cosimo I de’ Medici’s Florence, Urban VIII’s Rome, and Louis XIV’s Paris.
Prince of Europe
Author : Philip Mansel
Publisher : Orion Publishing Company
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 28,72 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780753818558
Book Description
The Habsburg courtier Charles-Joseph Prince de Ligne seduced and symbolized eighteenth-century Europe. Speaking French, the international language of the day, he travelled between Paris and St Petersburg, charming everyone he met. He stayed with Madame du Barry, dined with Frederick the Great and travelled to the Crimea with Catherine the Great. But Ligne was more than a frivolous charmer. He participated in and recorded some of the most important events and movements of his day: the Enlightenment; the struggle for mastery in Germany; the decline of the Ottoman Empire; the birth of German nationalism; and the wars to liberate Europe from Napoleon. He had surprisingly radical views, believing for example in property rights for women, legal rights for Jews and the redistribution of wealth. He was also a highly respected writer and his books on gardens, his letters from the Crimea and his epigrams are considered minor classics of French literature.
