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BUILDERS AND HUMANISTS The Renaissance Popes as Patrons of the Arts
University of St. Thomas 1966 Softcover Near Fine
Former owner's name to prelim. Decorative paper wraps. ; Six lectures: "A Renaissance Picture Portrait of the Zuccaro Brothers' Stay in Rome," "The Creation of a City: The Rome of Pius IV," "A Visionary Pope: Nicholas V and the Architectural Development of Rome," "Papal Patronage in the Renaissance: Martin V and Quercia, Julius II and Michelangelo," The Creation of 17th Century Painting in Rome around 1600," & "St. Peter's: the Glorious Compromise." ; 362 pages
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Barner, Wilfried (Hrsg. ) DER LITERARISCHE BAROCKBEGRIFF
Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 1975 3534057406 / 9783534057405 Hardcover Very Good- with no dust jacket
Minor spotting to endpapers. Light ink stains to ffep. Light shelfwear. Light foxing to foreedge of textblock. Spine is browned and foxed. ; Wege Der Forschung 158 (CCCLVIII) ; 597 pages
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Bodnar, Edward W. CYRIACUS OF ANCONA AND ATHENS
Latomus 1960 Softcover Near Fine
Pages uncut. Very light shelfwear. Else fine. ; Cyriac, or Ciriaco de' Pizzecolli (1391-1452) , was a merchant and diplomat from Ancona, a self-taught humanist and antiquarian. For many of the antiquities he described, and for most of the thousand Greek and Latin inscriptions he copied on voyages in Italy, Greece, the Mediterranean islands, and Asia Minor, his is the only surviving record. Bodnar gives this account of his name (page xx, n.1) : "Called Cyriacus in Latin, German, and sometimes in English; Cyriaque in French; and Ciriaco de' Pizzecolli in Italian. He usually signed himself as Kyriacus Anconitanus de Picenicollibus (abbreviated to K. A. P. ) or, occasionally in his later years, as Kuriakos ho ex Ankônos. "; Collection Latomus Volume 43; 255 pages
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Bolgar, Robert Ralph THE CLASSICAL HERITAGE AND ITS BENEFICIARIES
Cambridge University Press 1958 Hardcover Very Good in Fair dust jacket
Minor shelfwear to book. Bookplate to ffep. DJ has chipping and tears and is somewhat tattered with a few repairs to cellotape. ; The Classical Heritage has become established as a classic introduction to cultural and intellectual history from the Carolingian age to the end of the Renaissance. ; 591 pages
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Brown, Carleton (edit). CHAUCER The Pardoner's Tale
Oxford Clarendon Press 1958 Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket
A couple of pages have pencil notes and underlinings. ; Michael Ondaatje has signed the title page -- his university copy from 1964. Michael Ondaatje, author of "The English Patient". ; 63 pages
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Brown, Patricia Fortini VENICE & ANTIQUITY The Venetian Sense of the Past
Yale University Press 1997 0300067003 / 9780300067002 Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket Signed by Author
Very minor shelfwear to book else fine. Inscribed to R. E. Fantham from author on ffep. Dustjacket has minor edgewear and slight soiling. DJ has some shelfwear. ; 376 pages; In this pathbreaking book, Patricia Fortini Brown focuses on Venice`s Golden Age-from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century-and shows how it was influenced by antiquity, by its Byzantine heritage, and by its own historical experience.; Signed by Author
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Casson, Stanley GREECE AND BRITAIN
Collins 1943 Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket
Former owner's signature (classics professor R. Shepherd) on fly page. Bumping to top board. Light shelfwear to boards. ; Looks at the fascinating relationship and mutual influence of Greece and Great Britain. Includes early voyages of Greek sailors to England to the 16th and 17th century and finally to World War I. Also looks at the revival of classical learning in England.
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Chodorow, Stanley (Ed. ) THE OTHER SIDE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION: READINGS IN EVERYDAY LIFE Volume I: the Ancient World to the Reformation
Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich 1973 0155676466 / 9780155676466 Softcover Very Good
Minor creasing to bottom of front wrap. Shelfwear. ; Articles by AHM Jones, M I Finley, Samuel Angus, E A Thompson, Njal's Saga, Lynn White, Jr. , Irving Agus, Norman Chon, Peter Abelard, Austin P Evans, Sidney Painter, Urban T Holmes, Charles H Haskins, Margaret Labarge, William Bowsky, Thomas B Costain, ...etc..; 290 pages; The book consists of secondary readings with a strong social history focus. It provides students with exposure to the latest issues in European social history and to the nature of history research. At the same time, the articles themselves are easily linked to mainstream developments in their time periods.
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Collett, Barry ITALIAN BENEDICTINE SCHOLARS AND THE REFORMATION The Congregation of Santa Giustina of Padua
Oxford University Press 1985 0198229348 / 9780198229346 Hardcover Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and bookplate. Stamp to top of textblock. Front endpaper has adhesive remains. Adhesive stains to boards. Back bottom corner is bumped. Dustjacket spine is sunned. Dustjacket has mild rubbing. ; Oxford Historical Monographs; 1.1 x 8.84 x 5.9 Inches; 300 pages; European history from 1480 to 1570 was a period of turbulent change, political upheaval, profound moral questioning, and urgent philosophical speculation. This book explores the intriguing role of the almost-forgotten Congregation of Benedictine monks of Italy and southern France in the events of these tumultuous years. From archival and published records, the picture emerges of a closely-knit order of humanist scholars whose religious and philosophical studies later put them in a unique position to understand the Reformers. The book also casts light on the monks' fascinating reaction to the Reformation, as they poured out a stream of academic books, tracts, sermons, and poems in their attempt to heal the deepening rift between Rome and the Reformers. Critized and misunderstood by all sides, the Congregation gradually fell into decline until it was finally suppressed under the Napoleanic invasions.
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Craveri, Benedetta & (Eliane Deschamps-Pria, Trans. ) L'AGE DE LA CONVERSATION
Gallimard 2002 2070763528 / 9782070763528 Softcover Very Good with no dust jacket
Light wear to corners. One corner is creased. Scholars' bookplate to inner cover. ; Du règne de Louis XIII à la Révolution, la société française a élaboré un art de vivre dont la conversation fut l'ingrédient essentiel. Née comme un simple passe-temps, comme un jeu destiné au délassement et au plaisir, bientôt élevée au rang de rite cardinal de la société mondaine, elle s'ouvrit peu à peu à l'introspection, à l'histoire, à la réflexion philosophique et scientifique, au débat d'idées. Son théâtre privilégié était les " ruelles ", puis les salons où la noblesse, ayant déposé les armes et exclue de la sphère politique, fondait désormais sa supériorité sur un code raffiné de bonnes manières et un idéal de perfection esthétique. ; 486 pages
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Denison, Cara D. & Myra Nan Rosenfeld & Stephanie Wiles EXPLORING ROME Piranesi and His Contemporaries
The MIT Press 1993 0262540711 / 9780262540711 Softcover Very Good
Tear to head of spine with small piece torn off (1 cm). Sticker damage to rear wrap (small area of colour loss). ; Catalogue from the exhibition held at the Morgan Library and the Centre Canadien d'Architecture in Montreal; with four critical essays and the main catalogue with 128 b/w illustrations & 9 colour plates; 293 pages; The response to Rome by eighteenth-century Italian, French, and British artists is the subject of this beautifully illustrated, large-format book. The focal point is a group of approximately 40 drawings and prints by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) , whose dramatic and often fanciful views of Rome helped to create and spread a new vision of antiquity. Most of the works illustrated are drawn from the collections of the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the Pierpont Morgan Library, whose holdings of Piranesi drawings is the largest in the world. The works encompass the full scope of Piranesi's activities as architect, antiquarian, and designer. Works by Pannini, Fragonard, Robert Adam, Filippo Juvarra, Hubert Robert, Jean-Laurent Legeay, Charles de Wailly, and other eighteenth-century artists who drew inspiration from Roman art, architecture, and the surrounding countryside during this period are also included. In addition to texts by the three main authors, there are essays by John Wilton-Ely and Elisabeth Kieven, and entries by Henry Millon, Christine Challingsworth, Ruth S. Kraemer, and Jean de Cayeux.
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Denton, Jeffrey HIERARCHIES AND ORDERS IN LATE MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE EUROPE
University of Toronto Press 1999 0802044832 / 9780802044839 Hardcover Fine with no dust jacket
This collection of essays examines different, but linked, aspects of the social organization of Europe from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries. The essays broach two fundamental questions: how were social distinctions and divisions perceived and portrayed by the politically active, the writers, and the image-makers; and, bound up with the first question, according to what principles and methods should the modern enquirer perceive and portray the ordering of society during Western Europe's formative years? The contributors bring perspectives from a range of disciplines, from historical, sociological, and literary, to the art-historical and theoretical. Similarly, the contents are not limited to Northwestern Europe, but also address the Muslim Middle East, Dante's Italy, Renaissance Venice, and Adriatic Ragusa (Dubrovnik). An important contribution to the areas of late-medieval and early-modern European social history. ; 0.68 x 8.8 x 6.44 Inches; 256 pages
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Erasmus, Desiderius & Elaine Fantham & Betty I. Knott (Ed. ) COLLECTED WORKS OF ERASMUS: APOPHTHEGMATA [2 VOLUME SET] Translated and Annotated
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division 2014 1442641665 / 9781442641662 Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
Very minor shelfwear to books with faint bump to 1 corner of each volume. DJs have minor shelfwear. ; This final volume in the Literary and Educational Writings contains diverse woks spanning a generation. They demonstrate Erasmus' skill in applying classical rhetoric to contemporary Christian needs. Four are short rhetorical pieces; the next group illustrates facets of Erasmus' classical scholarship and includes several works that bear witness to Erasmus' friendship with Thomas More. The last and most expansive piece in the volume, the Lingua, has not previously been translated into English. This work represents Erasmus' growing criticism of his theological position by both Catholics and reformers. ; Collected Works of Erasmus 37-38; Vol. 37-38; 1056 pages
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Fonzio, Bartolomeo; Alessandro Daneloni (Ed. ) & Martin Davies (Trans. ) BARTOLOMEO FONZIO: LETTERS TO FRIENDS
Harvard University Press 2011 0674058364 / 9780674058361 Hardcover Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Book is fine. DJ has very light shelfwear. ; Bartolomeo Fonzio (1447–1513) was a leading literary figure in Florence during the time of Lorenzo de’ Medici and Machiavelli. A professor of poetry and rhetoric at the University of Florence, he included among his friends and colleagues leading figures such as Marsilio Ficino, Angelo Poliziano, John Argyropoulos, Cristoforo Landino, and Pietro Soderini. He was one of the principal collaborators in creating the famous humanist library of King Mattyas Corvinus of Hungary. As a scholar and teacher, he devoted himself to the study of classical authors, particularly Valerius Flaccus, Livy, Persius and Juvenal; his studies of Juvenal led to bitter polemics with Poliziano. Fonzio’s letters, translated here for the first time into English, are a window into the world of Renaissance humanism and classical scholarship, and include the famous letter about the discovery in 1485 on the Via Appia of the perfectly preserved body of a Roman girl. ; The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 256 pages
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Geanakoplos, Deno J. BYZANTINE EAST AND LATIN WEST: TWO WORLDS OF CHRISTENDOM IN MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE Studies in Ecclesiastical and Cultural History
Barnes and Noble 1966 Softcover Very Good
Underlining in black ink on about 6-7 pages. Light discoloration to spine. Minor shelfwear. Light ; Contents: Part I. East and West in the Middle Ages: Influences of Byzantine Culture on the Medieval Western World; Church and State in the Byzantine Empire: a Reconsideration of the Problem of Caesaropapism; Council of Florence (1438-39) and the problem of Union between the Byzantine and Latin churches. Part II. Byzantium and the Renaissance: The Greco-Byzantine Colony in Venice and its Significance in the Renaissance; Cretan Role in the Transmission of Greco-Byzantine Culture to Western Europe via Venice; An Overlooked post-Byzantine Plan for Religious Union with Rome: Maximos margounios the Cretan Humanist-Bishop and his Latin Library Bequeathed to Mt. Athos.
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Giraldi, Lilio Gregorio & John N. Grant (Ed. & Trans. ) LILIO GREGORIO GIRALDI: MODERN POETS
Harvard University Press 2011 0674055756 / 9780674055759 Hardcover Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket
Tiny indent mark to first few pages else book is fine. Very light shelfwear to DJ. ; Born in Ferrara, Lilio Gregorio Giraldi (1479–1552) received an excellent classical education at the world-famous humanist schools of his native city. On his various travels in search of a patron, he visited Naples, frequenting the Academy there; Mirandola, where he entered the service of Gianfrancesco Pico; Milan, where he studied Greek under Demetrius Chalcondyles; and Rome, where he enjoyed the munificence of Pope Leo X. Following the sack of Rome in 1527, Giraldi eventually made his way back to Ferrara, where he spent the last years of his life. Giraldi was the author of many works on literary history, mythology, and antiquities. Among the most famous are his dialogues, translated here into English for the first time. Modeled on Cicero’s Brutus, the work discusses hundreds of contemporary neo-Latin and vernacular poets, giving a panoramic view of European poetry in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century from Great Britain to Greece, but concentrating above all on Italy. ; The I Tatti Renaissance Library 48; 400 pages
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Giraldi, Lilio Gregorio & John N. Grant (Ed. & Trans. ) LILIO GREGORIO GIRALDI: MODERN POETS
Harvard University Press 2011 0674055756 / 9780674055759 Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Gift inscription to ffep from John Grant to R. E. Fantham. Very light shelfwear to DJ. ; Born in Ferrara, Lilio Gregorio Giraldi (1479–1552) received an excellent classical education at the world-famous humanist schools of his native city. On his various travels in search of a patron, he visited Naples, frequenting the Academy there; Mirandola, where he entered the service of Gianfrancesco Pico; Milan, where he studied Greek under Demetrius Chalcondyles; and Rome, where he enjoyed the munificence of Pope Leo X. Following the sack of Rome in 1527, Giraldi eventually made his way back to Ferrara, where he spent the last years of his life. Giraldi was the author of many works on literary history, mythology, and antiquities. Among the most famous are his dialogues, translated here into English for the first time. Modeled on Cicero’s Brutus, the work discusses hundreds of contemporary neo-Latin and vernacular poets, giving a panoramic view of European poetry in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century from Great Britain to Greece, but concentrating above all on Italy. ; The I Tatti Renaissance Library 48; 400 pages; Signed by Translator
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Hine, Harry M. STUDIES IN THE TEXT OF SENECA'S 'NATURALES QUAESTIONES'
B. G. Teubner 1996 3519076217 / 9783519076216 Hardcover Fine with no dust jacket
Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; 130 pages; "This Volume of notes on the text and interpretation of Seneca's Naturales Quaestiones is a companion to my Teubner edition of the work. I have not attempted a comprehensive textual commentary, but have discussed passages where I have taken a different view of the text from my predecessors..."
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Hine, Harry M. STUDIES IN THE TEXT OF SENECA'S 'NATURALES QUAESTIONES'
B. G. Teubner 1996 3519076217 / 9783519076216 Hardcover Near Fine with no dust jacket
Very light foxing to back board else fine. ; Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; 130 pages; "This Volume of notes on the text and interpretation of Seneca's Naturales Quaestiones is a companion to my Teubner edition of the work. I have not attempted a comprehensive textual commentary, but have discussed passages where I have taken a different view of the text from my predecessors..."
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