Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino ...
Author : James Dennistoun
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Page : 528 pages
File Size : 49,39 MB
Release : 1851
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Author : James Dennistoun
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Page : 528 pages
File Size : 49,39 MB
Release : 1851
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Author : James Dennistoun
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Page : 520 pages
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Release : 1851
Category : Art, Renaissance
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Author : James Dennistoun
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Page : 556 pages
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Release : 1851
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Author : Dennistoun James
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Release : 1901
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ISBN : 9780259649205
Author : James Dennistoun
Publisher : Legare Street Press
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Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781016712644
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Author : James Dennistoun
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Release : 1851
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Author : James Dennistoun
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Page : 552 pages
File Size : 14,66 MB
Release : 1851
Category : Art, Renaissance
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Author : James Dennistoun
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,86 MB
Release : 2023-05-08
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ISBN : 9789357090575
Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino (Volume 3); Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 To 1630., has been considered important throughout human history. In an effort to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to secure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for both current and future generations. This complete book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not scans of the authors' original publications, the text is readable and clear.
Author : James Dennistoun
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Page : 670 pages
File Size : 30,73 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Renaissance
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Author : James Dennistoun
Publisher : JOHN LANE COMPANY
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 27,16 MB
Release : 2013
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Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume I (of 3) But Dennistoun's Dukes of Urbino is not merely a history of the houses of Montefeltro and Della Rovere, of-viii- their famous and most brilliant Court, and of that part of Italy over which they held dominion, but really a work in belles-lettres too, discursive and amusing, as well as instructive. It deals not merely with history, as it seems we have come to understand the word, a thing of politics—in this case the futile and childish politics of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Italy—but illustrates "the arms, arts, and literature of Italy from 1440 to 1630." And indeed this programme was carried out as well as it could be carried out at the time these volumes were written. The book, which has long been almost unprocurable, is full, as it were, of a great leisure, crammed with all sorts of out-of-the-way learning and curious tales and adventures. Sometimes failing in art, and often we may think in judgment, Dennistoun never fails in this, that he is always interested in the people he writes of, interested in their quarrels and love affairs, their hair-breadth escapes and good fortunes. How eagerly he sides with Duke Guidobaldo, chased out of his city of Urbino by Cesare Borgia! It is as though he were assisting at that sudden flight at midnight, and, whole-heartedly the Duke's man as he was, almost fails to understand what Cesare was aiming at, and quite fails to see what Cesare saw too well—the helplessness of Italy, at the mercy, really, of the unconscious nations of the modern world. Such failures as this make his work, indispensable as it is, less valuable than it might have been, but they by no means detract from the general interest of the story. That is a quarry from which much has been hewn, and a good many of those enduring blocks which go to make up so popular and charming a work as John Inglesant came in the first instance from Dennistoun's volumes.