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Resplendence of the Spanish Monarchy: Renaissance Tapestries and Armor from the Patrimonia National
by Ortiz, Antonio Dominguez; Concha Herrero Carretero and Jose A. Godoy
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New York(1992): Metropolitan Museum of Art. Quarto. 172 pages, with over 150 illustrations in color. Bibliography, Index. With the era of Charles V and Philip II, the wealth of the new world allowed them to buy the finest tapestries and armor from Italy and Flanders. The remarkable beauty of this collection dazzles the eyes. One of the great exhibitions… Read more about this item Item Price
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Anticlericalism in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
by Dykema, Peter A. And Oberman, Heiko A.
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Leiden; (1993): E.J. Brill. First Edition. Thick Large Octavo. xi, 706 pages. Three main issues underlie the volume's approach: the meaning of anticlericalism as a historical concept and development over time. The word "anticlericalism" originated in the nineteenth century as a description for lay resistance to the political power of the clergy, but the anachronistic application of the concept… Read more about this item Item Price
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Renaissance Reclaimed: Jacob Burckhard's Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy Reconsidered
by Bauer, Stefan and Simon Ditchfield
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Oxford; (2022): Published for the British Academy By Oxford University Press. First Edition. Octavo. 288 pages, index. The most important book on the Italian Renaissance since Wallace K. Ferguson's The Renaissance in Historical Thought (1948). While most scholars in the past 50 years have either dismissed the Burkhardian concept of the Renaissance or rejected it entirely in favor of… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Makers of Florence: Dante, Giotto, Savonarola, and Their City
by Oliphant, Mrs. [Margaret}
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- 1891
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London: Macmillan and Co, 1891. Octavo. Frontispiece, xx, 420 pages. The author is now considered one of the finest women writers of the era. Though she was free from much of the conventions tolerated by many women writers, she wrote with intelligence about Europe and society that was detached from her societal connections. However, when she read Hardy's Jude… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick Containing Five Books of the lives, Heroick deeds, and sayings of Gargantua, and his Sonne Pantagruel, Together with the Pantagrueline Prognostication, the Oracle of the Divine. ( 2 Volume set)
by Rabelais, Francois, 1490-1553
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London, Nd(1921): Priv. Print. For The Navarre Society Limited. Octavo. Vol. I, 474 pages, Vol. II, 462 pages. illustrated by W. Heath Robinson, 1872-1944 . Gargantua and Pantagruel is a satire ridiculing the educational and religious establishment of his day. W. Heath Robinson had already become one of the finest illustrators of books including his own Bill the Minder… Read more about this item Item Price
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Essays of Montaigne, 5 volume), Limited to 150 Sets, This is Number 91
by Montaigne, Michel De; Charles Cotton; William Carew Hazlitt
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London: Privately Printed for the Navarre Society, 1923. Limited Edition. Quarto. Large paper deluxe edition limited to only 150 sets signed by the publisher and printer. One of the finest sets of the complete writings of Montaigne every produced. The type-setting was done by hand at Edinburgh's Riverside Press using Arnold's hand-made paper, specially made and watermarked by the… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry
by Pater, Walter
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- 1912
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Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1912. Limited Edition. Small Octavo. xi, 304 pages. Limited to 700 copies. Walter Pater provided a rich view of the art, literature and philosophy of the Renaissance. He argued that the rich iconography rooted in Greek sculpture was more fully developed there than when first produced. He gives attention not… Read more about this item Item Price
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Makers of Venice
by Oliphant, Mrs
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London: Macmillan & Co, 1892. Octavo. 410 pages. (2) pp. ads. Extra illustrated edition. Besides the 53 illustrations in most editions, this copy is extra-illustrated with 20 additional plates with Giotto, Fra Angelico, Cimabue, Masolino, Fra Lippi and others. The author is now considered one of the finest women writers of the era. Though she was free from much… Read more about this item Item Price
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Rhetor, Poeta, Historicus. Studien Uber Rhetorische Erkenntniss Und Lebensanschauung Im Italienishen Renaissancehumanismus
by Lindhardt, Jan
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Leiden: E.J.Brill, 1979. Octavo. 197(1)pp. (4)pp., Studies On Rhetorical Cognition And Lifestyle In Italian Renaissance Humanism. Bound in red cloth, spine lettering white. A very good copy with edges rubbed, corners bumped. Item Price
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