Machiavelli’s Florentine Histories originated under Medici patronage at a moment in which, after the death of Lorenzo the younger in May 1519, Cardinal Giulio de’ ...
Continue Reading →The Discourses on Livy (Italian: Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio, literally “Discourses on the First Ten of Titus Livy”) is a work ...
Continue Reading →In the history of Renaissance thought, Guicciardini’s Ricordi occupy a place of singular importance. Few works of the sixteenth century allow us so penetrating an ...
Continue Reading →Over the course of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, European society confronted rapid monetization, a process that has been examined in depth by ...
Continue Reading →The Pantheon is one of the most important architectural monuments of all time. Thought to have been built by Emperor Hadrian in approximately ...
Continue Reading →This is the first-ever English translation of Daniele Barbaro’s 1567 Italian translation of and commentary on Vitruvius’s Ten Books of Architecture, an encyclopaedic ...
Continue Reading →This volume offers a comprehensive survey of Roman villas in Italy and the Mediterranean provinces of the Roman Empire, from their origins to ...
Continue Reading →Summary Note The publication-dates are given on the title-plates as 1766 (vol. I) and 1767 (vols. II-IV). But in vol. I one of ...
Continue Reading →There have been many political philosophies published throughout the time of literate man, but few have made such an impact in so few ...
Continue Reading →(Karl Friedrich Schinkel – Lebenswerk, Band 19) Schinkel reiste zweimal nach Italien. Einmal als junger Mann und einmal als bereits reifer Künstler. Die ...
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