A Florentine Diary From 1450 to 1516

A Florentine Diary From 1450 to 1516
Author: Luca Landucci
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-09-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781014070982

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Art of Illumination

The Art of Illumination
Author: Timothy Husband
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2008
Genre: Belles heures of Jean of France, Duke of Berry
ISBN: 1588392945

The Cathedral Builders

The Cathedral Builders
Author: Leader Scott
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2022-06-02
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

"The Cathedral Builders" by Leader Scott is a book about Church architecture and the efforts of various Cathedral builders. The book explains how and why such a powerful and influential guild seemed to spring from a little island in Lake Como, and how their worldwide reputation grew, the following scraps of history, borrowed from many an ancient source.

The Bader Collection

The Bader Collection
Author: David Albert De Witt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Painting
ISBN: 9781553394013

For many decades the Agnes Etherington Art Centre has received European paintings from the Bader Collection from a wide range of periods and schools, from the German Renaissance to the Italian Rococo. This book features the centre's substantial group of over 50 remarkable paintings from European schools, notably Italy, Germany, France and England.

The Hospital of Incurable Madness

The Hospital of Incurable Madness
Author: Tomaso Garzoni
Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Psychiatry
ISBN: 9780866984003

This translation of Tomaso Garzoni's Renaissance "best-seller" provides a rich and revealing window on 16th-century views of madness, foolishness, and social deviance. Garzoni's encyclopedic work is perhaps the most important contribution of the last half of the century to the "fools" genre to which Erasmus' Praise of Folly and Sebastian Brant's Ship of Fools also belong. Garzoni provides a spoof of academic writing on madness, with extensive "reviews of the medical literature" on certain types of madness. A final, intriguing section on the varieties of madness to be found in Garzoni's female "patients" reveals much about late-Renaissance attitudes towards women. --Book Jacket.

White Magic, Black Magic in the European Renaissance

White Magic, Black Magic in the European Renaissance
Author: Paola Zambelli
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2007-07-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 9047421388

This book explores philosophical theories which in the Renaissance provided an interpretation of nature, of its laws and exceptions and, lastly, of man’s capacity to dominate the cosmos by way of natural magic or by magical ceremonies. It does not concentrate on the Hermetic and Neoplatonic philosophers (Ficino, Pico, Della Porta), or on the relationship between magic and the scientific revolution, but rather upon the interference of the ideas and practices of learned magicians with popular rites and also with witchcraft, a most important question for social and religious history. New definitions of magic put forward by certain unorthodox and “wandering scholastics” (Trithemius, Agrippa, Paracelsus, Bruno) will interest readers of Renaissance and Reformation texts and history.

Medieval Maps

Medieval Maps
Author: P. D. A. Harvey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 1991
Genre: Cartography
ISBN:

Professor Harvey traces the development of western mapmaking from the early Middle Ages to the first printed maps of the late 15th century, discussing their traditions, artistic and technical aspects, and uses.