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In sixteenth-century Venice, one young noblewoman dares to resist the choices made for her
Venice in 1509 is on the brink of war. The displeasure of Pope Julius II is a continuing threat to the republic, as is the barely contained fighting in the countryside. Amid this turmoil, noblewoman Justina Soranzo, just sixteen, hopes to make a rare love marriage with her sweetheart, Luca Cicogna. Her hopes are dashed when her father
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The marriage of Anglican, Edward FitzStephen, to Joan Farles is arranged to gain favor with Queen Mary Tudor, and preserve the wealthy family's manors. Love grows for Joan and Edward even when Edward's Anglican prelate uncle is burned at the stake. Can they save themselves and their families from further violence?
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Die Kaufmannstochter von Lübeck
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Alfred Bekker & Silke Bekker schrieben als Conny Walden
Der Umfang dieses Buchs entspricht 458 Taschenbuchseiten.
Johanna von Dören, Tochter eines einflussreichen Lübecker Schonenfahrers, begleitet ihren Vater zum Hansetag nach Köln. Dort soll ein Bündnis gegen den dänischen König Waldemar IV. geschlossen werden, der wichtige Handelsinteressen behindert. Johanna, die als Kind die Pest überlebte,...
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Such is the voice of Shan Sa's unforgettable heroine in her latest literary masterpiece, Empress. Empress Wu, one of China's most controversial figures, was its first and only female emperor, who emerged in the seventh century during the great Tang Dynasty and ushered in a golden age. Throughout history, her name has been defamed and her story distorted by those taking vengeance on a woman who dared to become emperor. But now, for the first time in...
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A mesmerizing novel of Renaissance Europe.
She followed her heart. But at what cost?
France, 1450. Sophie, the spoiled favorite child of a wealthy merchant, secures a love match with Cédric, a dashing noble-born falconer. But their isolated life in the mountains is not what she'd imagined. When Cédric is offered a job with the mighty Knights Hospitaller on the Greek island of Rhodes, Sophie jumps at the chance to improve their fortunes.
She quickly...
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Bianca: A Novel of Venice by Robert Elegant
At the height of the Renaissance, one vibrant city triumphs over the rest of Europe in nearly every aspect of human life: painting, music, architecture, banking, publishing, medicine and manufacturing. Her empire reaches the Black Sea and her trade, Asia. This is the illustrious and famed Venice, fierce in war and passionate in love. Dotting this flourishing city-state, the nobility glitters with sumptuous...
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Anthony Grafton is the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University. His many books include What was History? and Bring Out Your Dead.
The close links between forgery and criticism throughout history
In Forgers and Critics, Anthony Grafton provides a wide-ranging exploration of the links between forgery and scholarship. Labeling forgery the "criminal sibling" of criticism, Grafton describes a panorama of remarkable individuals-forgers...
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Voici un recueil de nouvelles en prose qui vous permettra d'apprécier la diversité de l'œuvre de son auteur. Il contient des histoires poignantes sur la destinée humaine, l'amour et la mort, la passion et la solitude, le passé mystérieux et l'avenir fantastique. La réalité se mêle à la fiction et la frontière entre les deux est souvent ténue. Romantiques et philosophiques, gaies et inquiétantes, toutes les histoires sont écrite de la...
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1445. King Henry VI is married by proxy to Margaret of Anjou. French, beautiful and unpopular, her marriage causes a national uproar.
At the same time, the infant Margaret Beaufort is made a great heiress and suddenly becomes the most important commodity in the nation. Her childhood is lived in remote, echoing castles, while everyone at King Henry's court competes to be her guardian and engineer an advantageous alliance with her uncle, the Duke of...
10) March of Fire
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England, 1628. The bloody war of religion in Europe continues, and after a botched and bloody defeat by the French, King Charles I's most trusted confidant and military commander, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, is murdered in Portsmouth in broad daylight. The assailant is a grieving and vengeful soldier, Jack Felton. The King is convinced that the murder of his closest ally is a conspiracy by Parliament, but his advisor, William Laud, Bishop...
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Since 16th century in England, when Shakespeare first conjured him, Shylock, the moneylender in The Merchant of Venice, has been a magnet for vilification of Jews by theatre audiences the world over. Little is known of this character, fashioned from and carrying forward the prevailing Elizabethan age antisemitic stereotype, who speaks only seventy-nine lines in the entire play.
The character Shylock reinforces the stigmatism and mistreatment of...
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Victoria Kahn is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. She is the author of Rhetoric, Prudence, and Skepticism in the Renaissance (Cornell) and co-editor, with Albert Ascoli, of Machiavelli and the Discourse of Literature (Cornell).
Historians of political thought have argued that the real Machiavelli is the republican thinker and theorist of civic virt. Machiavellian Rhetoric argues in contrast that Renaissance...
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The powerful, raging second novel in The Venetians trilogy that tells of the bitter and enduring conflict between two powerful Italian noble families.
The Lion of St. Mark told the story of the deep-seated rivalry between the patrician Ziani and Soranzo families--a long history of hatred and strife that had passed from one generation to the next. In the end, the brave Antonio Ziani and the proud Giovanni Soranzo set aside their personal vendettas...
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My sight was always good. But color now takes on even greater riches. I no longer need the bright blues and reds, which I did so delight in when I was young. I see a hundred times more beauty now in a dark brown, or the pale tints of quiet flesh. Or a ray of light across a fur or a beaten earth floor or a suit of black armor. Such colors do not distract the eye, but rather let it concentrate on my forte, the human face. There I will have my theater,...
15) Falcons Fly West
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When Oliver Cromwell's Parliament tightens its grip on former Royalists, John FitzStephen and his son sail to America where he owns a land tract. John thinks he has left religious and political strife in England but he is wrong, for many colonists brought their bigotry to America. John hopes can leave his love of sailing the world and begin a new life in New Haven Colony. He finds friends, and a foe, Puritan zealot, Reverend Joseph Foxe.
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"The Last Days of Pompeii" - Pompeii, A.D. 79. Athenian nobleman Glaucus arrives in the bustling and gaudy Roman town and quickly falls in love with the beautiful Greek Ione. Ione's former guardian, the malevolent Egyptian sorcerer Arbaces, has designs on Ione and sets out to destroy their budding happiness. But will he succeed in his evil plot? Or, will the cataclysmic destruction of the city by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius be the end of all? And,...
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The description for this book, Florentine Histories, will be forthcoming. "This translation . . . of Machiavelli's thoughts on his native city is meant to be less colloquial and closer to the original than the typical translation. This highlights how Machiavelli used words (and thought) differently from us. . . . Machiavelli is too often remembered merely as the realist who took the morality out of `virtue.' As the Histories demonstrate, he was also...
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THE RENAISSANCE TRILOGY - BOOK IIIn this sequel to THE MERCY OF LIONS; Knight of Rhodes, Hugh de Erpingham, continues his quest into the dark heart of renaissance Italy. Keeping one step ahead of the mysterious White Cardinal, and always just beyond the reach of his arch-nemesis Antonio Vendramin, Hugh and company still find time to make new enemies in Ferrara, Mantua and Venice, and some new friends too. Caught in the jaws of the venetian war, Hugh...
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La rebelión catalana de 1640 fue un acontecimiento capital en la Europa del siglo XVII. Sus antecedentes y sus causas -uno de los ejes de este magistral y clásico estudio- iluminan extraordinariamente la cuestión, largamente debatida, de la decadencia de España.
John H. Elliott perfila con trazo firme el progresivo deterioro de las relaciones entre el Principado de Cataluña y el gobierno de la monarquía en Madrid a lo largo de la primera mitad...
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It is London 1662, and plots abound against the king. Oliver Prior, haunted by the death of his sister when still a child, enters the world of espionage. Beatrice Short's goal is to go on stage, but she must work as a servant. While cleaning, she finds ciphers and invisible script. After the king's undersecretary finds her snooping, he blackmails her into going undercover as a spy.While Oliver and Beatrice bond to discover the backbone of insidious...
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