This is the first modern study of Agrippa s occult philosophy as a coherent part of his intellectual work. By …
A New York Times Bestseller An ivy league murder, a mysterious coded manuscript, and the secrets of a Renaissance prince …
Simon de Colines was one of the greatest typographers, printers and publishers of the Renaissance. He has nevertheless been unfairly …
A preeminent Renaissance scholar illuminates early modern encounters with books, in which literature became a portal to self-awareness and miraculous …
Jack Ridl returns with a collection of poems that mix deft artistic skill with intimate meditations on everyday life, whether …
These biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian …
In this book, Douglas Biow analyzes Vasari's Lives of the Artists - often considered the first great work of art …
Ben Jonson is, in many ways, the figure of greatest centrality to literary study of the Elizabethan and Jacobean period. …
In celebration of its Silver Anniversary, the scholarly journal Dance Research has invited a number of distinguished historian and colleagues …
England and the Italian Renaissance was first published in 1954 and pioneered a new approach to comparative cultural history. It …
First published in 1951, Arnold Hausers commanding work presents an account of the development and meaning of art, from its …
History of Italian Renaissance Art introduces a new dimension to books on Italian art. Professor Hartt, so steeped in every …
Before she made the New York Times Best-Sellers list with her All Souls Trilogy, Deborah Harkness was already a Cambridge …
Katherine Eggert explores the crumbling state of humanistic learning in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the benefits of relying …
In 1468, on the final night of Carnival in Rome, Pope Paul II sat enthroned above the boisterous crowd, when …
One of the worlds leading historians of Renaissance Italy brings to life here the vibrant--and violent--society of fifteenth-century Florence. His …
Michael Kubovy, an experimental psychologist, recounts the lively history of the invention of perspective in the fifteenth century, and shows …
.. something so unique and miraculous that it changed our world forever. We call it the Renaissance, a rebirth of …
Gregory Zuckerman, the bestselling author ofThe Greatest Trade EverandThe Frackers, answers the question investors have been asking for decades: How …
1. Death and life of Michelangelo -- 2. Buonarroti -- 3. Unruly apprenticeship -- 4. Medici -- 5. Antiquities -- …
In the tradition of The Swerve and How to Live, this vivid biography reveals how a Renaissance scholar reshaped the …
A biography of Vittoria Colonna, a confidante of Michelangelo, the scion of one of the most powerful families of her …
