Renaissance
epub |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

From this Victoria Hotel one looks straight across a flat of trifling width to a lofty mountain barrier, which has a gateway in it shaped like an inverted pyramid. Beyond ...
( Category: Renaissance March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-09 | Author:Prins, Jacomien.,Vanhaelen, Maude. & Maude Vanhaelen

As a consequence of his abandonment of numerical world harmony as a system of eternal, harmonic laws, which also underpin the human soul and earthly music, Patrizi needs to come ...
( Category: Renaissance March 10,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-24 | Author:David Norbrook

( Category: Renaissance March 10,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Hilary Mantel [Mantel, Hilary]

II The Image of the King Spring–Summer 1537 Hans does not like the pavonazzo. You cannot have a king who is purple from one angle, blue from another, green from ...
( Category: Renaissance March 9,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-06 | Author:John P. McCormick

5 Leo Strauss’s Machiavelli and the Querelle between the Few and the Many THIS CHAPTER EXAMINES Leo Strauss’s engagement with the democratic elements of Niccolò Machiavelli’s political thought; specifically, Machiavelli’s ...
( Category: Renaissance March 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-12 | Author:Sigrid Undset

( Category: Renaissance March 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 1983-11-24 | Author:Alessandro Manzoni & Bruce Penman

CHAPTER 21 The old woman went off eagerly to obey her orders, and to issue other instructions with the authority of the name which assured prompt compliance from all in ...
( Category: Renaissance March 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-24 | Author:Fernão Mendes Pinto [Pinto, Fernão Mendes]

151 The Sack of Martaban It was almost nightfall when the surrender ceremony ended, and since the king was afraid that the troops might enter the city and make off ...
( Category: Renaissance March 5,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Laurie Ellinghausen

Purser admits that his “sinne deserv’d” his ill luck, but that Fortune nonetheless arbitrarily “gan to trippe” and hasten his demise. Moreover, it seems that Fortune “dash[ed]” the men despite ...
( Category: Renaissance March 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-24 | Author:Geoffrey Chaucer

Each with his mate, and not stay longer here.’ 658 And then she spoke to them as you shall hear. ‘To you I speak, you eagles, I declare. Be of ...
( Category: Renaissance March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 1985-02-05 | Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maurice Cranston (translator)

PART TWO THE first man who, having enclosed a piece of land, thought of saying ‘This is mine’ and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder ...
( Category: Renaissance February 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-27 | Author:Sponsler, Claire;

Henry’s Coronation Feast and the Three Subtleties Although sharing the general contours of food as performance that I have been describing, the feast and subtleties for Henry VI were shaped ...
( Category: Renaissance February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-27 | Author:Bruno, Giordano;Gatti, Hilary;

[Fig. 5 © The British Library Board, C.37.c.14.(2.) p. 75.] SMITHUS. I would like to know if those who are near very high mountains would suffer from this impediment. THEOPHILUS. ...
( Category: Renaissance February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-19 | Author:EMERSON, KATHY LYNN [EMERSON, KATHY LYNN]

DOMESTIC COINS angel: A gold coin worth 6s. 8d. until Henry VIII and then 10s. In 1565, England was flooded with Flemish-made counterfeit angels. angelet or half angel: A gold ...
( Category: Renaissance February 28,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Helen Hackett [Hackett, Helen]

COURT MASQUES From the moment of James I’s accession in March 1603 Jonson devoted himself to seeking his favour, busily composing pageants, entertainments, and poems of praise for the new ...
( Category: Renaissance February 20,2020 )