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41) Leonardo's Lost Princess: One Man's Quest to Authenticate an Unknown Portrait by Leonardo Da Vinci
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How an oddly attributed $19,000 picture proved to be a $100 million work by Leonardo da Vinci-a true art-world detective story
In late 2010, art collector Peter Silverman revealed that a "German, early 19th century" portrait he had bought for $19,000 was, in fact, a previously unknown drawing by Leonardo da Vinci-an exquisite depiction of Bianca Sforza, rendered 500 years ago. In Leonardo's Lost Princess, Silverman gives a riveting first-person account...
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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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With full attention to the classical, medievel, and Renaissance traditions that constituted the milieu in which Milton wrote, Lieb explores the sacral basis of Milton's thought. He argues that Milton's responsiveness to the holy as the most fundamental of experiences caused his outlook to transcend immediate doctrinal concerns. Accordingly, Lieb contends that the consecratory impulse not only underlined Milton's point of view but infused all aspects...
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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...
45) 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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The Rebirth of Venus is the last part of The Botticelli Trilogy, following A Tabernacle for the Sun and Pallas and the Centaur. Set in the 1480s and 90s, it tells the story of murder, not only of the leading men of the age, but of the age itself, the Renaissance dying in Savonarola's bonfires. Tommaso de' Maffei was charged with the task of taking the Platonic wisdom to England, but in England he finds he has lost touch with the truth of his philosophy,...
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A Gift for the Magus is the story of Fra Filippo Lippi and his powerful relationship with Cosimo de' Medici. Through the guidance of his patron, Lippi - a liar, a cheat and a gambler who fathers children on the nun who models for him, becomes a painter of divinity. It is a prequel to 'The Botticelli Trilogy'.
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El estudio del municipio borbónico de Xàtiva y el proceso de su instauración y consolidación tras la Guerra de Sucesión permite conocer, desde la perspectiva del cambio político local, este periodo decisivo de la historia valenciana. De este modo, se aborda el desarrollo, a lo largo del Setecientos, de las nuevas instituciones borbónicas en Xàtiva, ahora San Felipe, como el corregimiento y ayuntamiento. Y ello a través de un pormenorizado...
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Un viaje a través de la política, la sociedad y la cultura de los árabes desde los días del Imperio romano hasta la actualidad. La clave para entender el mundo árabe actual (y futuro) es comprender su pasado. McHugo revela cómo el mundo árabe llegó a ser lo que es hoy, por qué el cambio era inevitable, y qué podemos esperar después de la primavera árabe. Concisa, breve, útil y práctica, esta historia sirve también de guía sobre la...
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Al hilo del tiempo recoge los artículos publicados por el autor en los últimos treinta años, estructurados en torno a sus dos principales preocupaciones historiográficas: las Cortes, en especial las del Reino de Valencia, y la burocracia de la España Imperial. La primera parte sitúa las Cortes valencianas en el contexto de la península ibérica y de los parlamentos europeos, y se explican los momentos y circunstancias que llevaron al País...
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Rembrandt's stunning religious prints stand as evidence of the Dutch master's extraordinary skill as a technician and as a testament to his genius as a teller of tales. Here, several virtually unknown etchings, collected by the Feddersen family and now preserved for the ages at the University of Notre Dame, are made widely available in a lavishly illustrated volume. Building on the contributions of earlier Rembrandt scholars, noted art historian Charles...
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A central feature of English Renaissance humanism was its reverence for classical Latin as the one true form of eloquent expression. Yet sixteenth-century writers increasingly came to believe that England needed an equally distinguished vernacular language to serve its burgeoning national community. Thus, one of the main cultural projects of Renaissance rhetoricians was that of producing a "common" vernacular eloquence, mindful of its classical origins...
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Pastoral was one of the most popular literary forms of early modern England. Inspired by classical and Italian Renaissance antecedents, writers from Ben Jonson to John Beaumont and Abraham Cowley wrote in idealized terms about the English countryside. It is often argued that the Renaissance pastoral was a highly figurative mode of writing that had more to do with culture and politics than with the actual countryside of England. For decades now literary...
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The medieval guild is deconstructed into political theory and social commentary in this contemporary look at one of the most important social institutions of the Middle Ages. Essential principles and values underlying the guild system are discussed with a view toward applying them to current societal ills such as unemployment, absentee corporate ownership, and employee disenfranchisement. The system, adapted to the needs and circumstances of the 21st-century,...
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Eine zahme Bestie auf Grand Tour d'Europe: Nashorn trifft Kaiserin!
Das erste Nashorn, das nach Jahrhunderten Europa lebend erreichte
Maria Theresia, Voltaire, Madame Pompadour—sie alle wurden zu Nebenfiguren, als sie in Europa eintraf: die gefürchtete und gefeierte Nashorndame Clara. Wieso schrieb ihr Casanova ein Liebesgedicht? Was hat Clara mit Tabak und Bier zu tun? Und wie konnte sie für die Menschen gleichermaßen eine Höllenbestie und...
56) El río morisco
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El problema principal, por no decir el único, que se plantea en este libro es el de la convivencia entre grupos de diferentes culturas. El autor expresa lo que le separa de Villanueva, de Juan Goytisolo y de la postura de Francisco Márquez, investigadores que comparten su punto de vista. Con todo el respeto hacia su inmensa obra y hacia su pensamiento generoso, Bernard Vincent afirma que el voluntarismo de estos autores falta a la realidad. Quieren...
57) Bedtrick
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Once a boy player in Shakespeare's company, Sander Cooke is now a hired man playing female roles. When Frances Field reveals she is pregnant by Sander's brother, Johnny, a fellow actor and aspiring playwright, Johnny makes it clear that marriage is not in his plans. But if Frances gives birth to a bastard, she'll lose her shop on London Bridge and her position as one of Queen Elizabeth's silkwomen. Sander would like to come to Frances' rescue: only...
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La traducción de Fernández de Villegas del 'Infierno' en coplas de arte mayor está rodeada de una extensa glosa del mismo traductor cuya fuente principal es el 'Comento sopra la Comedia de Landino' (1481). En este libro se abordan temáticas hasta hace poco desatendidas, como el contexto del que emerge -la corte regia-, su fecha de composición, sus problemas de transmisión textual y los mecanismos de traducción empleados -los cuales se analizan...
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Here is a collection of short prose that allows you to judge the multifaceted work of the writer. Poignant stories about human destinies, love and death, passion and loneliness, the mysterious past and the fantastic future, in which, sometimes, it is difficult to draw a line between reality and fiction, found their shelter in it. Romantic and philosophical, cheerful and creepy, they are all written in the unique handwriting of a master who never ceases...
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«He aquí un título algo alarmante, ¿Tiene sentido hablar de conflictos nacionales en el siglo XVI?» Para Tulio Halperin Donghi, en este libro clásico que ahora se reedita, la respuesta afirmativa tiene implicaciones de gran alcance pero muy meditadas. La nación en un sentido contemporáneo -admite- data del siglo XIX, pero esto no invalida el uso de este concepto para referirse a la «nación de los cristianos nuevos de moros del reino de Valencia»,...
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