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Renaissance Thought and the Arts: Collected Essays by Paul Oskar Kristeller
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Written by an eminent authority on the Renaissance, these classic essays deal not only with Paul Kristeller's specialty, Renaissance humanism and philosophy, but also with Renaissance theories of art... -
From Poliziano to Machiavelli: Florentine Humanism in the High Renaissance by Peter Godman 9780691655284
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £51.87Peter Godman presents the first intellectual history of Florentine humanism from the lifetime of Angelo Poliziano in the later fifteenth century to the death of Niccolo Machiavelli in 1527. Making... -
Celebrating the Sacred in Ordinary Life: James Joyce and the Renaissance Magus by Tom Absher 9781433139796
RRP: £80.10Booksplease Price: £71.81This book is an introductory examination of the Hermetic tradition in the Renaissance and how James Joyce made use of certain of its salient features in his four works of fiction: Dubliners, A... -
Essays on Giordano Bruno by Hilary Gatti 9780691148397
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.43This book gathers wide-ranging essays on the Italian Renaissance philosopher and cosmologist Giordano Bruno by one of the world's leading authorities on his work and life. Many of these essays were... -
Between Friends: Discourses of Power and Desire in the Machiavelli-Vettori Letters of 1513-1515 by John M. Najemy 9780691655222
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £52.17Between Friends offers the first extended close reading of the most famous epistolary dialogue of the Renaissance, the letters exchanged from 1513 to 1515 by Niccolo Machiavelli and Francesco Vettori... -
Machiavelli's God by Maurizio Viroli
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.73To many readers of The Prince, Machiavelli appears to be deeply un-Christian or even anti-Christian, a cynic who thinks rulers should use religion only to keep their subjects in check. But in... -
Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician Dominance by Margaret L. King 9780691611006
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £66.64In comprehensive detail Margaret King analyzes the activities of the patricians who were predominant in the ranks of the humanists and who made humanist thought a powerful tool in the service of... -
Sorrow and Consolation in Italian Humanism by George W. McClure 9780691606699
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.43George McClure offers here a far-reaching analysis of the role of consolation in Italian Renaissance culture, showing how the humanists' interest in despair, and their effort to open up this realm in... -
When Philosophers Rule: Ficino on Plato's Republic, Laws and Epinomis by Arthur Farndell 9780856832574
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £15.97Searching for a definition of good government, this commentary from Marsilio Ficino examines three Platonic dialogues that have had a profound effect on Western statesmen and jurists. A leading... -
Household and Lineage in Renaissance Florence: The Family Life of the Capponi, Ginori and Rucellai by Francis William Kent 9780691616728
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £41.96Professor Kent is concerned with one of the major questions posed by historical research on the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance: did these periods witness the nuclearization of the aristocratic... -
Politics and Culture in Renaissance Naples by Jerry H. Bentley
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £41.96Examining the cultural history of Renaissance Naples with an emphasis on humanism, the author also evaluates Naples in the broader context of fifteenth-century Italy and Renaissance Europe in general... -
Humanists and Holy Writ: New Testament Scholarship in the Renaissance by Jerry H. Bentley
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.73Focusing on the work of Lorenzo Valla, the Spanish Complutensian scholars, and Erasmus of Rotterdam, this book examines the New Testament studies of the Renaissance humanists rather than their more... -
In Search of Florentine Civic Humanism, Volume 2: Essays on the Transition from Medieval to Modern Thought by Hans Baron 9780691610573
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.82Hans Baron's Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance is widely considered one of the most important works in Italian REnaissance studies. Princeton University Press published this seminal book in... -
In Search of Florentine Civic Humanism, Volume 2: Essays on the Transition from Medieval to Modern Thought by Hans Baron 9780691656366
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £72.43Hans Baron's Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance is widely considered one of the most important works in Italian REnaissance studies. Princeton University Press published this seminal book in... -
Jan Gossart and the Invention of Netherlandish Antiquity by Marisa Anne Bass 9780691169996
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £42.26This is the first in-depth historical study of Jan Gossart (ca. 1478-1532), one of the most important painters of the Renaissance in northern Europe. Providing a richly illustrated narrative of the... -
Doctors and Medicine in Early Renaissance Florence by Katharine Park 9780691611570
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £54.80Katharine Park has written a social, intellectual, and institutional history of medicine in Florence during the century after the Black Death of 1348. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton... -
Social World of Florentine Humanists, 1390-1460 by Lauro Martines 9780691625263
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.37A picture of representative humanists of the Quattrocento, based on manuscript material in the Florence state archives. Originally published in 1963. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest... -
Avicenna in Renaissance Italy: The Canon and Medical Teaching in Italian Universities after 1500 by Nancy G. Siraisi
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £59.48The Canon of Avicenna, one of the principal texts of Arabic origin to be assimilated into the medical learning of medieval Europe, retained importance in Renaissance and early modern European... -
Images and Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Painting by Jonathan Brown
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £51.87Art historians have often minimized the variety and complexity of seventeenth-century Spanish painting by concentrating on individual artists and their works and by stressing discovery of new... -
Abbot Suger on the Abbey Church of St. Denis and Its Art Treasures: Second Edition by Abbot of Saint Denis Suger
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.63This revised edition incorporates the additions and corrections recorded by Erwin Panofsky until the time of his death in 1968. Gerda Panofsky-Soergel has updated the commentary in the light of new... -
On the Life of Galileo: Viviani's Historical Account and Other Early Biographies by Stefano Gattei 9780691174891
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £41.23The first collection and translation into English of the earliest biographical accounts of Galileo's lifeThis unique critical edition presents key early biographical accounts of the life and work of... -
Titian's Allegory of Marriage: New Approaches Daniel Unger 9781041189602
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This book offers nine new approaches toward a single work of art, Titian's Allegory of Marriage or Allegory of Alfonso d'Avalos, dated to 1530/5. In earlier references, the painting was named simply... -
Cervantes and the Early Modern Mind by Isabel Jaén
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book explores the work of Cervantes in relation to the ideas about the mind that circulated in early modern Europe and were propelled by thinkers such as Juan Luis Vives, Juan Huarte de San... -
Occult Philos Elizabethan Age by 9780415849753
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63First published in 1999. This is volume VII of ten of the collected works of Frances Yates. This book is a strictly historical study, not an enquiry into 'the occult' in general, which I am certainly... -
Confessions of Love: The Ambiguities of Greek "Eros" and Latin "Caritas" by Craig J. N. de Paulo 9781433111846
RRP: £67.10Booksplease Price: £59.79Confessions of Love: The Ambiguities of Greek ‘Eros’ and Latin ‘Caritas’ includes a collection of essays by internationally renowned scholars such as Phillip Cary, Roland Teske, and Leonid Rudnytzky,... -
Evermore Shall be So: Ficino on Plato's Parmenides by Arthur Farndell 9780856832567
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £17.01Featuring philosophical commentary from Marsilio Ficino-a leading scholar of the Italian Renaissance who translated all the works of Plato into Latin-this work is the first English translation of... -
Renaissance Humanism, from the Middle Ages to Modern Times by John Monfasani
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.79Starting with an essay on the Renaissance as the concluding phase of the Middle Ages and ending with appreciations of Paul Oskar Kristeller, the great twentieth-century scholar of the Renaissance,... -
Two Aristotelians of the Italian Renaissance: Nicoletto Vernia and Agostino Nifo by Edward P. Mahoney
Booksplease Price: £39.98This volume deals with the psychological, metaphysical and scientific ideas of two major and influential Aristotelian philosophers of the Italian Renaissance - Nicoletto Vernia (d. 1499) and Agostino... -
The Riches of Intercultural Communication: Volume 1: Interactive, Contrastive, and Cultural Representational Approaches by Roselinde Supheert 9789004522497
Booksplease Price: £106.97How do you react to an intercultural situation that you do not understand? There are four options. You wait until it's over. You adjust your behavior and "do as the natives do." You blame the other... -
Renaissance and Reformation: The Intellectual Genesis by Anthony Levi 9780300103465
Booksplease Price: £45.49This book presents a revisionist examination of the development of European intellectual culture between the high middle ages and 1550. It draws particular attention to the roles of Marsilio Ficino... -
Asclepius: A Secret Discourse of Hermes Trismegistus by Clement Salaman 9780715635643
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £22.70"The Asclepius" is one of two philosophical books ascribed to the legendary sage of Ancient Egypt, Hermes Trismegistus, who was believed in classical and renaissance times to have lived shortly after... -
Thomas Starkey and the Commonwealth: Humanist Politics and Religion in the Reign of Henry VIII by Thomas Mayer 9780521521284
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £40.09Thomas Starkey (c. 1495-1538) was the most Italianate Englishman of his generation. This book places Starkey into new and more appropriate contexts, both biographical and intellectual, taking him out... -
Dancer, Nun, Ghost, Goddess: The Legend of Giō and Hotoke in Japanese Literature, Theater, Visual Arts, and Cultural Heritage by Roberta Strippoli 9789004356290
Booksplease Price: £111.74Dancer, Nun, Ghost, Goddess explores the story of the dancers Gio and Hotoke, which first appeared in the fourteenth-century narrative Tale of the Heike. The story of the two love rivals is one of... -
Re-evaluating Pico: Aristotelianism, Kabbalism, and Platonism in the Philosophy of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola by Sophia Howlett 9783030595838
Booksplease Price: £112.12This book offers a re-evaluation of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, the prominent Italian Renaissance philosopher and prince of Concord. It argues that Pico is part of a history of attempted... -
Re-evaluating Pico: Aristotelianism, Kabbalism, and Platonism in the Philosophy of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola by Sophia Howlett 9783030595807
Booksplease Price: £112.12This book offers a re-evaluation of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, the prominent Italian Renaissance philosopher and prince of Concord. It argues that Pico is part of a history of attempted... -
Platonic Principles: Essays in Honor of Lloyd Gerson Carl Sean O'brien 9798893721188
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £42.60In a series of specially commissioned essays, an international team of scholars examine both Platonism's metaphysical principles (the One or the Form of the Good and the Indefinite Dyad: the... -
A Tanizaki Feast: The International Symposium in Venice by Adriana Boscaro 9780939512904
Booksplease Price: £41.76This volume presents 18 eighteen essays, written by scholars from six countries, on Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886-1965), one of the great writers of the 20th century. The essays were originally prepared... -
Visitors by John Stewart 9780856832536
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £8.60Beings from a distant planet impact the political, economic, and spiritual life of both Britain and the world in this tale that uses a touch of science fiction to explore human potential. Dealing... -
Models of the History of Philosophy: From its Origins in the Renaissance to the 'Historia Philosophica' by Philip Weller 9789048142545
Booksplease Price: £112.42Models of the History of Philosophy. From its Origins in the Renaissance to the `Historia philosophica' (a translation of a work published in 1981 in Italian - the bibliography has been updated)... -
Plotinus' Legacy: The Transformation of Platonism from the Renaissance to the Modern Era by Stephen Gersh 9781108415286
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.44The extensive influence of Plotinus, the third-century founder of 'Neoplatonism', on intellectual thought from the Renaissance to the modern era has never been systematically explored. This...