Influences: Art, Optics, and Astrology in the Italian Renaissance
ISBN: 9780226922843 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today few would think of astronomy and astrology as fields related to theology. Fewer still would know that physically absorbing planetary rays was once considered to have medical and psychological effects. But this was the understanding of light radiation held by certain natural philosophers of early modern Europe, and that, argues Mary Quinlan-McGrath, was why educated people of the Renaissance commissioned artworks centered on astrological themes and practices. Influences is the first book to reveal how important Renaissance artworks were designed to be not only beautiful but... Today few would think of astronomy and astrology as fields related to theology. Fewer still would know that physically absorbing planetary rays was... |
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Watching Vesuvius: A History of Science and Culture in Early Modern Italy
ISBN: 9780226923710 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mount Vesuvius has been famous ever since its eruption in 79 CE, when it destroyed and buried the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. But less well-known is the role it played in the science and culture of early modern Italy, as Sean Cocco reveals in this ambitious and wide-ranging study. Humanists began to make pilgrimages to Vesuvius during the early Renaissance to experience its beauty and study its history, but a new tradition of observation emerged in 1631 with the first great eruption of the modern period. Seeking to understand the volcano s place in the larger system of nature,... Mount Vesuvius has been famous ever since its eruption in 79 CE, when it destroyed and buried the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. But less... |
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The Art of War in Italy, 1494-1529: the Transition From Mediaeval to Modern Warfare During the Renaissance
ISBN: 9780857068149 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The birth of 'New War' in Italy
It is easy to consider the Renaissance as a time of enlightenment typified principally by the artistic and scientific genius of Leonardo da Vinci and his peers; but giant leaps forward are never confined to one aspect of society and the application of new ideas is always adapted to various purposes and the meeting of differing objectives. The creation of modern political science by Niccolo Machiavelli is a prime example of how new ways of thinking and doing impacted on the advancement and securing of power. These changes were inevitably accompanied by... The birth of 'New War' in Italy
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The Art of War in Italy, 1494-1529: the Transition From Mediaeval to Modern Warfare During the Renaissance
ISBN: 9780857068156 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The birth of 'New War' in Italy
It is easy to consider the Renaissance as a time of enlightenment typified principally by the artistic and scientific genius of Leonardo da Vinci and his peers; but giant leaps forward are never confined to one aspect of society and the application of new ideas is always adapted to various purposes and the meeting of differing objectives. The creation of modern political science by Niccolo Machiavelli is a prime example of how new ways of thinking and doing impacted on the advancement and securing of power. These changes were inevitably accompanied by... The birth of 'New War' in Italy
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The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, C.1958-C.1974
ISBN: 9781448205738 / Angielski / Miękka / 812 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If the World Wars defined the first half of the twentieth century, the sixties defined the second half, providing the pivot on which modern times have turned. From popular music to individual liberties, the tastes and convictions of the Western world are indelibly stamped with the impact of that tumultuous decade.
Now one of the world's foremost historians provides the definitive look at this momentous time. Framing the sixties as a period stretching from 1958 to 1974, Arthur Marwick argues that this long decade ushered in nothing less than a cultural revolution--one that raged most... If the World Wars defined the first half of the twentieth century, the sixties defined the second half, providing the pivot on which modern times have...
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The Anointment of Dionisio: Prophecy and Politics in Renaissance Italy
ISBN: 9780271058399 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1566 a flamboyant Frenchman who called himself Dionisio Gallo mesmerized crowds of onlookers as he preached in the courtyard of the ducal palace in Venice. Believing he had been anointed by the Virgin, he delivered a message of reform of church and society. Soon he was arrested, tried before the Inquisition, and banished. In The Anointment of Dionisio, Marion Leathers Kuntz tells the bizarre tale of this itinerant preacher, using his story to illuminate the checkered political and religious landscape of Counter-Reformation Europe. No ragged John the Baptist, Dionisio... In 1566 a flamboyant Frenchman who called himself Dionisio Gallo mesmerized crowds of onlookers as he preached in the courtyard of the ducal palace... |
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The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction: A Bloody Journey
ISBN: 9781611475524 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By taking as its point of departure the privileged relationship between the crime novel and its setting, this book is the most wide-ranging examination of the way in which Italian detective fiction in the last twenty years has become a means to articulate the changes in the social landscape of the country. Nowadays there is a general acknowledgment of the importance of place in Italian crime novels. However, apart from a limited scholarship on single cities, the genre has never been systematically studied in a way that so comprehensively spans Italian national boundaries. The originality of...
By taking as its point of departure the privileged relationship between the crime novel and its setting, this book is the most wide-ranging examinatio...
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The Valtellina and UNESCO: Making a Global Landscape
ISBN: 9780739173466 / Angielski / Twarda / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Global in scope and transdisciplinary in method, this work examines the process through which local historic landscapes become global heritage sites. The Valtellina, a valley in the Italian Alps, is known for being unusually fertile for its elevation and latitude, and for the dry stone terraces on its steep hillsides that make this fertility possible. ProVinea, a local nonprofit, has applied to UNESCO to inscribe these landscapes onto its World Heritage list, representing the construction and use of the terraces as the heroic transformation of barren slopes into fertile fields. Drawing on...
Global in scope and transdisciplinary in method, this work examines the process through which local historic landscapes become global heritage sites. ...
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Raffaello Borghini's Il Riposo
ISBN: 9781442614932 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Raffaello Borghini's Il Riposo (1584) is the most widely known Florentine document on the subject of the Counter-Reformation content of religious paintings. Despite its reputation as an art-historical text, this is the first English-language translation of Il Riposo to be published. A distillation of the art gossip that was a feature of the Medici Grand Ducal court, Borghini's treatise puts forth simple criteria for judging the quality of a work of art. Published sixteen years after the second edition of Giorgio Vasari's Vite, the text that set the... Raffaello Borghini's Il Riposo (1584) is the most widely known Florentine document on the subject of the Counter-Reformation content of re... |
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The Cameo
ISBN: 9781452062679 / Angielski / Miękka / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
ISBN: 9781620401934 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On August 19, 1418, a competition concerning Florence's magnificent new cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore--already under construction for more than a century--was announced: "Whoever desires to make any model or design for the vaulting of the main Dome....shall do so before the end of the month of September." The proposed dome was regarded far and wide as all but impossible to build: not only would it be enormous, but its original and sacrosanct design shunned the flying buttresses that supported cathedrals all over Europe. The dome would literally need to be erected over thin air. Of... On August 19, 1418, a competition concerning Florence's magnificent new cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore--already under construction for more than ... |
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Gramsci's Political Thought
ISBN: 9781608462773 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Property rights and their violations - La propriété violée; Expropriations and confiscations, 16 th -20 th Centuries- Expropriations et confiscations,
ISBN: 9783034306683 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Interest in the history of ownership rights is growing and spreading to different disciplines. Historians are turning their attention mainly to the rise of private and individual ownership as it was codified in 19th-century liberal Europe. In writing this history, however, their perspective has too often ignored the other side of the coin, namely the restrictions which the sovereign imposed on such rights, allegedly in the interest of the community.
The papers collected in the present volume suggest that private property is not necessarily the most safeguarded legal model, hence it is not... Interest in the history of ownership rights is growing and spreading to different disciplines. Historians are turning their attention mainly to the ri...
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Die Schweizer Regimenter in Neapel im 18. Jahrhundert (1734-1789)
ISBN: 9783039115167 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 652 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Im Jahr 1734/35 fallt das Konigreich Neapel in die Hande der spanischen Bourbonen, die gemass dem Traktat von Wien im Mezzogiorno eine Sekundogenitur errichten mussen. Konig Karl, der die eidgenossischen Truppenkontingente in der spanischen Armee wahrend der suditalienischen Eroberung schatzen gelernt hat, ubertragt in der Folge zwei schweizerischen Offizieren die Aufgabe, neue Schweizer Regimenter fur die neapolitanische Krone zu formieren.
Bezuglich der eidgenossisch-neapolitanischen Kriegsdienste des 18. Jahrhunderts sind bislang kaum nennenswerte Erkenntnisse veroffentlicht worden.... Im Jahr 1734/35 fallt das Konigreich Neapel in die Hande der spanischen Bourbonen, die gemass dem Traktat von Wien im Mezzogiorno eine Sekundogenitur ...
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Italiener in Hamburg: Migration, Arbeit Und Alltagsleben Vom Kaiserreich Bis Zur Gegenwart
ISBN: 9783631522059 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vom spaten 19. bis weit in die zweite Halfte des 20. Jahrhunderts verliessen Millionen von Arbeitssuchenden Italien. Hunderttausende kamen ins deutsche Kaiserreich und spater in die Bundesrepublik. Wahrend die Makrohistorie der italienischen Deutschlandwanderung relativ gut erforscht ist, bleibt die mikrohistorische Ebene des Phanomens bisher weitgehend unberucksichtigt. Die Studie eroffnet am Beispiel Hamburgs, eines der Ziele der Italiener, einen neuen Blick auf Migrationsphasen, Arbeits- und Lebensverhaltnisse sowie Niederlassungs- und Integrationstendenzen im Wandel der Zeit."
Vom spaten 19. bis weit in die zweite Halfte des 20. Jahrhunderts verliessen Millionen von Arbeitssuchenden Italien. Hunderttausende kamen ins deutsch...
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Bernini: His Life and His Rome
ISBN: 9780226055237 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the last of the great universal artistic geniuses of early modern Italy, placed by both contemporaries and posterity in the same exalted company as Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. And his artistic vision remains palpably present today, through the countless statues, fountains, and buildings that transformed Rome into the Baroque theater that continues to enthrall tourists today.It is perhaps not surprising that this artist who defined the Baroque should have a personal life that itself was,...
Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the last of the great universal artistic geniuses of ...
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Supra-National Integration and Domestic Economic Growth: The United States and Italy in the Western Bloc Rearmament Programs 1945-1955
ISBN: 9783631605790 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through a detailed reconstruction of American rearmament programs to Italy from the birth of NATO through the implementation of multilateral military assistance during the early 1950s, this research challenges the idea that the end of reconstruction marked a striking American shift from economic aid to defense policies. The case study of Italy highlights the impact that the defense procurement contracts had both on monetary stability and balance of payments, as well as the integration of the Italian products within the infant European trade area. This monograph demonstrates that through...
Through a detailed reconstruction of American rearmament programs to Italy from the birth of NATO through the implementation of multilateral military ...
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Naples Declared: A Walk Around the Bay
ISBN: 9780143123460 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A lively, elegantly concise historic tour of Italy's city by the bay
An invaluable addition to the art of literary travel writing, Naples Declared presents an informative and compulsively readable account of three thousand years of Naples history. From the catacombs of San Gennaro to the luminous paintings of Caravaggio to the ruins of Pompeii in nearby Campania, renowned author Benjamin Taylor takes readers on a stroll around the city Italians lovingly call Il Cratere. Gracefully written and full of good humor, wisdom, and amusing anecdotes, Naples Declared is a... A lively, elegantly concise historic tour of Italy's city by the bay
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Mussolini's Death March: Eyewitness Accounts of Italian Soldiers on the Eastern Front
ISBN: 9780700619085 / Angielski / Twarda / 566 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his quest for military glory, Benito Mussolini sent the Italian Eighth Army to the Eastern Front to help fight the Russians, only to have his forces routed within little more than a month of the launch of the Soviet counteroffensives of the winter of 1942-1943. The Cuneense, a division of mountain troops, was hit especially hard, with only a small percentage of its troops straggling back to Italy; the rest were killed in action or died of frostbite or in captivity from malnourishment, overwork, and disease. All told, the Italians suffered roughly 75,000 dead, more than in their six-month...
In his quest for military glory, Benito Mussolini sent the Italian Eighth Army to the Eastern Front to help fight the Russians, only to have his force...
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Silvio Berlusconi Geniusz mediów i marketingu politycznego
ISBN: 9788360732526 / Polski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. W błyskotliwej karierze Berlusconiego, w którym jedni widzą ucznia Machiavellego i populistycznego hochsztaplera, a inni charyzmatycznego Duce jest coś, co musi skłaniać do refleksji. Autor, wykorzystując w analizie tego fenomenu ekonomiczny model demokracji Josepha Schumpetera, ujawnia wielką moc pieniądza, mediów i marketingu politycznego. Dzięki temu wreszcie wiemy, jak można manipulować demokracją i wyborcami.
Fragment recenzji prof. zw. dr hab. Wiesława Bokajły W błyskotliwej karierze Berlusconiego, w którym jedni widzą ucznia Machiavellego i populistycznego hochsztaplera, a inni charyzmatycznego Duce jest...
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