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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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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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