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The Wisdom of the Renaissance by Michael K. Kellogg
epub |eng | 2019-10-21 | Author:Michael K. Kellogg

LIFE François Rabelais was born in Chinon, a town in the Loire Valley that played an often pivotal role in the Hundred Years’ War between France and England, though it ...
( Category: Renaissance July 5,2020 )
A History of Venice by John Julius Norwich
epub |eng | 1983-07-14 | Author:John Julius Norwich

27 The Ferrara War and the Queen of Cyprus [1481–1488] You Venetians, it is certain, are very wrong to disturb the peace of other states rather than to rest content ...
( Category: Renaissance July 5,2020 )
The Rise of Universities by Haskins Charles Homer;
epub |eng | 2013-07-15 | Author:Haskins, Charles Homer;

* * * 1 E. G. Browne, Arabian Medicine (1921), p. 93. 2 Op. cit., I, 254–255. 3 Sic heredes Gratiani Student fieri decani, Abbates, pontifices. 4 Richer of Reims, ...
( Category: Renaissance July 2,2020 )
Edmund Spenser by Andrew Hadfield
epub |eng | 2012-07-14 | Author:Andrew Hadfield

If blinde men could of costlie colours iudge, and intermeddle with Apelles arte, Or were not fretting Enuie giuen to grudge the faith of him who places a freindlie paste, ...
( Category: European July 2,2020 )
Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness by Beckwith Sarah;
epub |eng | | Author:Beckwith, Sarah;

Infectious Confessions: The Gift of Speech So let me now turn finally to the last scene of Cymbeline. The people collected together in that scene are unknown to each other ...
( Category: Renaissance July 2,2020 )
The Battle of Lepanto by Nanami Shiono
epub |eng | 2020-06-29 | Author:Nanami Shiono [Shiono, Nanami]

* * * — The decision having been made, the war council quickly settled on the details. They would set out on September 16th. They chose that date because it ...
( Category: Renaissance July 1,2020 )
Third Reich Sourcebook by Rabinbach Anson
epub |eng | | Author:Rabinbach, Anson

204 JOSEPH GOEBBELS The Tasks of the Ministry of Propaganda Speech delivered to members of the press on 15 March 1933. First published as “Rede vor der Presse über die ...
( Category: Renaissance June 28,2020 )
Shakespeare and Co by Stanley Wells
epub |eng | 2007-09-25 | Author:Stanley Wells [Wells, Stanley]

Heartlessly, the ballad was sung repeatedly under Anne Elsdon's window. At the time of the trial the play dramatizing the terrible happenings for which Audley and Tindall were prosecuted had ...
( Category: European June 28,2020 )
Dante and the Early Astronomer by Tracy Daugherty;
epub |eng | | Author:Tracy Daugherty;

Fig. 16. Dante’s universe as illustrated in Mary’s book Dante and the Early Astronomers. In The Divine Comedy, Dante added a ninth heaven, the Primum Mobile, a crystalline sphere, luminous ...
( Category: Renaissance June 28,2020 )
Reading and Writing History From Bruni to Windschuttle: Essays in Honour of Gary Ianziti by Christian Thorsten Callisen
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2014-06-27 | Author:Christian Thorsten Callisen

Chapter 7 The Uses of Natural Law in Early Modern Germany: Christian Thomasius’s Reshaping of the Legal Persona Ian Hunter Introduction In his comprehensive and illuminating reconstruction of the historical ...
( Category: Renaissance June 27,2020 )
Collected Poems: 1958-2015 by Clive James
epub |eng | 2016-09-05 | Author:Clive James [James, Clive]

The Carnival You can’t persuade the carnival to stay. Wish all you like, it has to go away. Don’t let the way it moves on get you down. If it ...
( Category: Renaissance June 15,2020 )
Sovereign Fantasies by Ingham Patricia Clare;
epub |eng | 2019-06-15 | Author:Ingham, Patricia Clare;

The Tragedy of Romance: Gender, Genre, and Agency If, as de Rougemont implies, Arthurian romance gives us a satisfying narrative of our powerlessness over our own passionate attachments, that powerlessness ...
( Category: Renaissance June 14,2020 )
Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais Francois;
epub |eng | 2017-06-05 | Author:Rabelais, Francois;

CHAPTER XXIX How Pantagruel Convocated together a Theologian, Physitian, Lawyer, and Philosopher, for extricating Panurge out of the perplexity wherein he was. NO sooner were they come into the Royal ...
( Category: Renaissance June 6,2020 )
The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500–1640 by Andrew Hadfield
epub |eng | 2013-06-14 | Author:Andrew Hadfield

FURTHER READING Brownlees, Nicholas. The Language of Periodical News in Seventeenth-Century England (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011). Cust, Richard. ‘News and Politics in Early Seventeenth-Century England’, Past & ...
( Category: Renaissance June 2,2020 )
Bibliophile by Jane Mount
epub |eng | 2018-05-22 | Author:Jane Mount [Mount, Jane]

Viking Kestrel 1988 hardcover, art by Quentin Blake “My favorite book of all time is Matilda by Roald Dahl. I was already a well-established ‘reader’ by the time it found ...
( Category: Renaissance May 23,2020 )

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