The Italian Renaissance

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  Women and Writing

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  Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error

  In the early 1300's the village of Montaillou & the surrounding mountainous region of Southern France was full of heretics. When Jacquest Fournier, Bishop of Pamiers, launched an elaborate Inquisition…

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  The Prince

  Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following observations, be Machiavellian as we understand the disparaging term?
  
  1. So it is that to know the na…

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  Medieval Civilization 400-1500

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  Mont-Oriol

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  Khrushchev: The Man and His Era

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  Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture

  Brunelleschi's Dome is the story of how a Renaissance man bent men, materials, and the very forces of nature to build an architectural wonder. Not a master mason or carpenter, Filippo Brunelleschi was…

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  How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity

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  Death in Venice

  The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael Henry Heim.
  
  Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Ma…

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  The Silence

  From one of the most dazzling and essential voices in American fiction, a timely and compelling novel set in the near future about five people gathered together in a Manhattan apartment, in the midst …

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  Romancero gitano

  El "Romancero gitano" difunde el nombre de su autor por todo el ámbito de la literatura de nuestra lengua. Aclara el poeta que "aunque se llama gitano, es el poema de Andalucía porque el gitano es lo …

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  The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

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  De Bourgondiërs: aartsvaders van de Lage Landen

  Meesterverteller Bart Van Loo neemt de lezer op sleeptouw langs duizend jaar Europese geschiedenis. Zijn zoektocht voert hem naar het ontstaan van de Nederlanden in de vijftiende eeuw. En wat blijkt? …

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  Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World

  From the finance editor of The New York Times , an examination of Bill Gates—one of the most powerful, fascinating, and contradictory figures of the past four decades—and an eye-opening exploration of…

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  The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall

  At its height, Renaissance Florence was a center of enormous wealth, power, and influence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its often bloody political scene was dominated by rich m…

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  The Anatomy of Fascism

  What is fascism? Many authors have proposed definitions, but most fail to move beyond the abstract. The esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers this question for the first time by focusing on the …

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  Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

  Caliban and the Witch is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Federi…

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  The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

  The Cheese and the Worms is a study of the popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through the eyes of one man, a miller brought to trial during the Inquisition. Carlo Ginzburg uses the trial…

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  Diary of a Madman and Other Stories

  Hailed by Nabokov as "the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced," Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) left his mark as a playwright, novelist, and writer of short stories. Gogol's works remain popular wi…

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  Out of Italy

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