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Platonic Theology: v. 4: Books 12-14 by Marsilio Ficino 9780674014824
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.60The Platonic Theology is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance... -
Commentary on Plotinus, Volume 5: Ennead III, Part 2, and Ennead Iv by Marsilio Ficino
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.60Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) was the leading Platonic philosopher of the Renaissance and is generally recognized as the greatest authority on ancient Platonism before modern times. Among his finest... -
Marsilio Ficino, Three Books on Life: A Critical Edition and Translation by Carol V Kaske 9780866988223
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780866988223Author Carol V. KaskeFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Arizona Center for Medieval &... -
The Secular is Sacred: Platonism and Thomism in Marsilio Ficino's Platonic Theology by A. B. Collins 9789401020244
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book presents a philosophical position examined philosophically. Although it does not go beyond the confines ofFicino's perspective and is governed by standards of historical accuracy, it makes... -
Canova in the Veneto: A Guide by Elena Catra
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.00A traveler's guide to key works by the greatest Neoclassical sculptor, on the 200th anniversary of his death Often regarded as the greatest of the Neoclassical artists, Antonio Canova (1757-1822)... -
Plato's Persona: Marsilio Ficino, Renaissance Humanism, and Platonic Traditions by Denis J.-J. Robichaud
Booksplease Price: £72.86In 1484, humanist philosopher and theologian Marsilio Ficino published the first complete Latin translation of Plato's extant works. Students of Plato now had access to the entire range of the... -
The Secular is Sacred: Platonism and Thomism in Marsilio Ficino's Platonic Theology by Ardis B. Collins 9789024715886
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book presents a philosophical position examined philosophically. Although it does not go beyond the confines ofFicino's perspective and is governed by standards of historical accuracy, it makes... -
The Letters of Marsilio Ficino Volume 11: (Book XII) by Language Department of the School of Economic Science, London 9780856835193
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.10This volume and its companions contain the first English translation of the letters written by the philosopher-priest who helped to shape the changes that we associate with the Renaissance. The... -
The Queen of the Dolomites: Living in Cortina d'Ampezzo by Servane Giol 9791254632154
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £39.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9791254632154Author Servane GiolFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint MarsilioPublisher Marsilio -
The Treasures of Venice Pop-Up by Dario Cestaro 9788831715027
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788831715027Author Dario CestaroFormat HardbackPage Count 16Imprint MarsilioPublisher Marsilio -
![Vision, the Gaze, and the Function of the Senses in "Celestina" by James F. Burke](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/510946/510662/9780271034294__30196.1687253387.jpg?c=1 "Vision, the Gaze, and the Function of the Senses in "Celestina" by James F. Burke")
Vision, the Gaze, and the Function of the Senses in "Celestina" by James F. Burke
Booksplease Price: £32.96The plot of the late-medieval Spanish work Celestina (1499) centers on the ill-fated love of Calisto and Melibea and the fascinating character of their intermediary, Celestina. In this... -
The Poetry of Light: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art of Washington: Tiepolo, Canaletto, Sargent, Whistler Andrew Robison 9788831720502
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £37.03Catalog to the Carrer Venice museum exhibition of the 19th century drawings on loan from tfrom US National Gallery --from Canaletto and Caravaggio to Sargent on HomerAbout the AuthorAndrew Robinson... -
A Sudden Frenzy: Improvisation, Orality, and Power in Renaissance Italy by James K. Coleman 9781487563448
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £36.78In Renaissance Italy there existed a rich interplay between two cultural practices frequently regarded as entirely separate and mutually antagonistic: the humanistic study of the ancient world and... -
Lino Tagliapietra: Glasswork by Lino Tagliapietra 9788831725477
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £52.30This is a large illustrated volume on the work of the legendary master glassmaker Lino Tagliapietra. On the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of his career, this book traces the artist s life,... -
The Hounds of Actaeon: The Magical Origins of Public Relations and Modern Media by Maurico Loza
Booksplease Price: £114.42In this innovative study, Colombian technology writer Mauricio Loza pursues an intriguing thesis on the origin of psychology and modern media, namely that they arise from the magical arts of the... -
Italian Fashion Now Maria Luisa Frisa 9788831798129
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.48Featuring a selection of designers forging a new global identity for Italian fashion What's hot in Italian fashion now, and what soon will be hot. New stars are rising in the Italian fashion... -
Accrochage by Caroline Bourgeois 9788831723817
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £34.35Accrochage brings together about seventy works from the Pinault Collection produced by thirty artists since the 1970s. The works-never shown before in the Venetian venues of the... -
The Magic of the Orphic Hymns: A New Translation for the Modern Mystic by Tamra Lucid 9781644117200
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.63Recaptures the magical vitality of the original Orphic Hymns. As famous Renaissance philosopher Marsilio Ficino wrote, "No magic is more powerful than that of the Orphic Hymns." These legendary... -
Les Docks Marseille: The Fascinating Reuse of a Historic Building by Alfonso Femia 9788831726467
RRP: £24.50Booksplease Price: £17.07Rightly or wrongly, its designer is credited with the idea of having associated the construction with a symbolic and imaginative calendar: 365 meters in length, the number of days in a year, four... -
Jodice Canova by Giuliana Ericani 9788831717571
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £28.85A disquiet expressed with a timeless vision. The decision to pay homage to Antonio Canova could not but start out of the encounter with the man who, back in 1992, had already understood his... -
Beverly Barkat: Evocative Surfaces by Sally Haftel Naveh 9788831728027
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £18.71Beverly Barkat s painting is rooted in a profound and ongoing dialogue with art history. Her study and observation of the figurative and realistic tradition in Western art has resulted in her... -
Philosophies of Art and Beauty: Selected Readings in Aesthetics from Plato to Heidegger by Albert Hofstadter
Booksplease Price: £26.98This anthology is remarkable not only for the selections themselves, among which the Schelling and the Heidegger essays were translated especially for this volume, but also for the editors' general... -
Emilio Scanavino: The Tactile Sign of the Void Emilio Scanavino 9788831726139
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.90The first international monograph about Emilio Scanavino after his death, this book focuses on the wide breadth of his creative output, which began immediately after World War II and continued until... -
All the World's Futures: 56 International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia by Okwui Enwezor 9788831721288
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £79.70Rather than one overarching theme, the 56th International Art Exhibition of the Biennale is informed by a layer of intersecting filters. These filters are a constellation of parameters that... -
Generali in History: Tales from the Archive Assicurazioni Generali 9788831723831
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £58.55The structure of the books, one devoted to the nineteenth-century and one to the twentieth-century, is based on closely related document entries and personnel entries, centered on particular events... -
Val d'Europe: A City Vision Maurice Culot 9788831728010
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £18.63Val d Europe is a new city created in 1987, located next to the first tourist destination in Europe, Disneyland Paris. The challenge of this unique architectural and urban experience was to design,... -
The Master's Touch: Essential Elements of Artisanal Excellence by Alberto Cavalli 9788831724340
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.35Origins and future of national and international artisanal excellence. What is craftsmanship? How do you determine excellence? The answers lie in identifying and carefully analyzing the constitutive... -
Ferdinando Scianna: The Venice Ghetto 500 Years After Ferdinando Scianna 9788831724777
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.05The 44 black-and-white photographs presented here have been selected from the many pictures taken by Ferdinando Scianna on a succession of visits made to Venice between May and June in 2016: they... -
Rome: The Eternal Beauty: Pop-Up by Dario Cestaro 9788831726733
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25Rome presented through the spectacular paper architecture of Dario Cestaro, in a pop-up book that recounts the city s history with simple texts and curious anecdotes. A fascinating journey through... -
Ideas&Ideals North Euro Renais by Yates 9780415606097
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.68This is Volume X of ten of the selected works of Frances Yates. Originally published in 1984, this collection of thirty-five essays.Book InformationISBN 9780415606097Author Frances A. YatesFormat... -
Venice on a Plate: But What a Plate! by Enrica Rocca 9788831715041
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.10An unprecedented and audacious coupling of gastronomy and art: Venetian cuisine and Murano glassworks Winner of two Gourmand Cookbook Awards 2014: Best in the World, Historical Recipes and Best... -
Sing Aloud Harmonious Spheres: Renaissance Conceptions of Cosmic Harmony by Jacomien Prins
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79This is the first volume to explore the reception of the Pythagorean doctrine of cosmic harmony within a variety of contexts, ranging chronologically from Plato to 18th-century England. This original... -
Ideas&Ideals North Euro Renais by Yates
Booksplease Price: £75.36This is Volume X of ten of the selected works of Frances Yates. Originally published in 1984, this collection of thirty-five essays.Book InformationISBN 9780415222396Author Frances A. YatesFormat... -
In Grimani: Ritsue Mishima Glass Works Ritsue Mishima 9788831716475
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £22.60"Ritsue Mishima was born in Kyoto, Japan in 1962. She worked as a stylist in advertising and with interior design magazines, eventually focusing on floral installations. In 1996, after moving to... -
The Wonders of Florence by Dario Cestaro 9788831719216
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25The first pop-up book on Florence. Dario Cestaro's spectacular drawings and paper architecture reveal Florence and its treasures in a pop-up book telling the city's history with straightforward texts... -
Iconology, Neoplatonism, and the Arts in the Renaissance by Berthold Hub 9780367548940
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69The mid-twentieth century saw a change in paradigms of art history: iconology. The main claim of this novel trend in art history was that renowned Renaissance artists (such as Botticelli, Leonardo,... -
The Clock and the Mirror: Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance Medicine by Nancy G. Siraisi
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £61.80Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576), renowned as a mathematician, encyclopedist, astrologer, and autobiographer, was by profession a medical practitioner. His copious writings on medicine reflect both the... -
The Divine Comedy, III. Paradiso, Vol. III. Part 2: Commentary by Dante 9780691019130
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.07Continuing the paperback edition of Charles S. Singleton's translation of The Divine Comedy, this work provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand the... -
The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus: Hermeticism from Ancient to Modern Times by Florian Ebeling
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £14.14"Perhaps Hermeticism has fascinated so many people precisely because it has made it possible to produce many analogies and relationships to various traditions: to Platonism in its many varieties, to... -
The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo by Horapollo Niliacus
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.73Written reputedly by an Egyptian magus, Horapollo Niliacus, in the fourth century C.E., The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo is an anthology of nearly two hundred "hieroglyphics," or allegorical emblems,...