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The beginning of the Renaissance is marked in this translation of Leonardo Bruni's first work, the "Laudatio Florentinae Urbis" (Panegyric of the City of Florence). Written around 1400, this treatise introduces many of the ideas that became central to the Italian Renaissance--republican liberty, free competition, and the balance of power--and influenced many later thinkers of the Renaissance, including Machiavelli. With the ideas outlined in this work, Bruni decisively influenced all later European and American thought about republican and democratic government. In addition to the...

(revised edition) General in its approach, yet penetrating, this book allows the reader to become acquainted with the highlights of Buddhist philosophy. It not only treats the ideas of the founder of the religion, but follows the development of his thought through the ages. It points out how these ideas were used by the psychologists of the Abhidharma, how they issued in the mystical conceptions of Mahayana. But before all, the book treats the more intellectual notions about time and being as found in the Madhyamaka and Yogacara, and it analyses the logic of Buddhist idealism.Then the reader...

History of fresco painting. The only book with chronological and topographical overview and background information on frescoes in Italy, the richest art treasury in the world: The technique of fresco painting; Working conditions and private life of painters; Looking at frescoes; Chronological overview; Frescoes according to region; Maps. A cultural travel guide which reads like a novel.