wyszukanych pozycji: 3
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In Fortune's Theater
ISBN: 9781108826945 / Miękka / 2023 / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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172,69 zł |
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In Fortune's Theater: Financial Risk and the Future in Renaissance Italy
ISBN: 9781108843881 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This innovative cultural history of financial risk-taking in Renaissance Italy argues that a new concept of the future as unknown and unknowable emerged in Italian society between the mid-fifteenth and mid-sixteenth centuries. Exploring the rich interchanges between mercantile and intellectual cultures underpinning this development in four major cities - Florence, Genoa, Venice, and Milan - Nicholas Scott Baker examines how merchants and gamblers, the futurologists of the pre-modern world, understood and experienced their own risk taking and that of others. Drawing on extensive archival...
This innovative cultural history of financial risk-taking in Renaissance Italy argues that a new concept of the future as unknown and unknowable emerg...
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cena:
493,50 zł |
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The Fruit of Liberty: Political Culture in the Florentine Renaissance, 1480-1550
ISBN: 9780674724525 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In the middle decades of the sixteenth century, the republican city-state of Florence--birthplace of the Renaissance--failed. In its place the Medici family created a principality, becoming first dukes of Florence and then grand dukes of Tuscany. The Fruit of Liberty examines how this transition occurred from the perspective of the Florentine patricians who had dominated and controlled the republic. The book analyzes the long, slow social and cultural transformations that predated, accompanied, and facilitated the institutional shift from republic to principality, from citizen to... In the middle decades of the sixteenth century, the republican city-state of Florence--birthplace of the Renaissance--failed. In its place the Medi... |
cena:
276,56 zł |