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A magisterial work of gripping history, "City of Fortune" tells the story of the Venetian ascent from lagoon dwellers to the greatest power in the ...
In the 14th century, Nicolo and Antonio Zen journeyed from Venice up the North Atlantic, encountering warrior princes, fighting savage natives and, just possibly, reaching ...
In 1999 Tobias Jones immigrated to Italy, expecting to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors. Instead, he found a very different ...
Orphaned in infancy, Catherine de Medici was the sole legitimate heiress to the Medici family fortune. Married at fourteen to the future Henri II of ...
Theodoric possessed great talents both for war and peace; in the former he was always conqueror, and in the latter he conferred very great benefits ...
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In this long-awaited book (already a major bestseller in Italy) Ginsborg has created a fascinating, sophisticated ...
The Italian Renaissance man's handbook, defining the virtues essential for a man of the Court
In The Book of the Courtier (1528), Baldesar Castiglione ...
A fascinating description of the beginning of the modern world
For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning ...
An extraordinary chronicle of Venice, its people, and its grandeur Thomas Madden s majestic, sprawling history of Venice is the first full portrait of the ...