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Visitors by John Stewart 9780856832536
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $16.77Beings 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... -
Plotinus' Legacy: The Transformation of Platonism from the Renaissance to the Modern Era by Stephen Gersh
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $56.67The 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... -
Number to Sound: The Musical Way to the Scientific Revolution by Paolo Gozza 9789048153589
RRP: $253.48Booksplease Price: $227.86Number 10 Sound: The Musical Way 10 the Scientific Revolution is a collection of twelve essays by writers from the fields of musicology and the history of science. The essays show the idea of music... -
The Great Humanists: An Introduction by Jonathan Arnold 9781848850828
Booksplease Price: $55.71Born out of a love of language, text, classical learning, art, philosophy and philology, the Christian Humanist project lasted beyond the turmoil of sixteenth-century Europe to survive in a new form... -
Theatre, Magic and Philosophy: William Shakespeare, John Dee and the Italian Legacy by Gabriela agnea Horvath
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $90.66Analyzing Shakespeare's views on theatre and magic and John Dee's concerns with philosophy and magic in the light of the Italian version of philosophia perennis (mainly Marsilio Ficino, Pico della... -
Philosophers of the Renaissance by Paul Richard Blum 9780813217260
Booksplease Price: $66.22Philosophers of the Renaissance introduces readers to philosophical thinking from the end of the Middle Ages through the sixteenth century. International specialists portray the thought of twenty-one... -
Gardens of Philosophy: v. 8 (Book IX) by Arthur Farndell 9780856832406
RRP: $36.95Booksplease Price: $31.14What made the Renaissance tick? Why had it such a force that its thinking spread from a small group of scholars in Florence, working in their own brilliant ways but coming together in Ficino's small... -
Harmony and Contrast: Plato and Aristotle in the Early Modern Period by Anna Corrias 9780197267295
Booksplease Price: $131.24Plato and Aristotle were very much alive between the fifteenth and the seventeenth centuries. The essays in this volume investigate the interaction, both in terms of harmony and contrast, between the... -
Studies on Montesquieu - Mapping Political Diversity by Rolando Minuti 9783319774541
Booksplease Price: $176.59This volume studies a fundamental element of Montesquieu's argumentative architecture that is most apparent in his De l'Esprit des Lois: the problem of giving order to, and establishing a network of... -
Five Comedies by Carlo Goldoni 9781442650282
RRP: $124.80Booksplease Price: $102.75One of the first and most important Italian playwrights to move away from the commedia dell'arte tradition of improvisation, Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793) wrote more naturalistic "comedies of character"... -
The Routledge Companion to Music, Mind, and Well-being by Penelope Gouk
RRP: $101.38Booksplease Price: $96.21In recent decades, the relationship between music, emotions, health and well-being has become a hot topic. Scientific research and new neuro-imaging technologies have provided extraordinary new... -
Eros and Magic in the Renaissance by Ioan P. Couliano 9780226123165
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $51.69It is a widespread prejudice of modern, scientific society that "magic" is merely a ludicrous amalgam of recipes and methods derived from primitive and erroneous notions about nature. Eros and Magic... -
Spenser's Supreme Fiction: Platonic Natural History and The Faerie Queene by Jon A. Quitslund 9780802035059
RRP: $138.45Booksplease Price: $113.41In Spenser's Supreme Fiction, Jon A. Quitslund offers a rich analysis of The Faerie Queene and of several texts contributing to the revival of Platonism stimulated by Marsilio Ficino's labours as a... -
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton 9780674301610
RRP: $44.75Booksplease Price: $44.27A Seminary Co-op Notable Book PROSE Award in European History“[M]arvellously readable . . . Not for nothing is Grafton renowned as today’s leading historian of Renaissance intellectual culture . . ... -
Visual Culture and Mathematics in the Early Modern Period by Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $90.66During the early modern period there was a natural correspondence between how artists might benefit from the knowledge of mathematics and how mathematicians might explore, through advances in the... -
Philosophy in the Renaissance: An Anthology by Paul Richard Blum 9780813236209
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79The Renaissance was a period of great intellectual change and innovation as philosophers rediscovered the philosophy of classical antiquity and passed it on to the modern age. Renaissance philosophy... -
Guardians of Republicanism: The Valori Family in the Florentine Renaissance by Mark Jurdjevic 9780199204489
Booksplease Price: $228.97Guardians of Republicanism analyses the political and intellectual history of Renaissance Florence-republican and princely-by focusing on five generations of the Valori family, each of which played a... -
Renaissance Theories of Vision John Shannon Hendrix 9781138245488
RRP: $116.98Booksplease Price: $108.89How are processes of vision, perception, and sensation conceived in the Renaissance? How are those conceptions made manifest in the arts? The essays in this volume address these and similar questions... -
Eight Philosophers of the Italian Renaissance by Paul Oskar Kristeller 9780804701112
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.12Italian Renaissance thought has been gaining ever-increasing recognition as seminal to the thought of the whole Renaissance period, affecting in many subtle ways the development and understanding of... -
The Return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence by Alison Brown 9780674050327
RRP: $79.85Booksplease Price: $66.55In this first comprehensive study of the effect of Lucretius's De rerum natura on Florentine thought in the Renaissance, Alison Brown demonstrates how Lucretius was used by Florentine... -
Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well by Pellegrino Artusi 9780802086570
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $74.06First published in 1891, Pellegrino Artusi's La scienza in cucina e l'arte di mangier bene has come to be recognized as the most significant Italian cookbook of modern times. It was reprinted... -
Humanism and Religion in Early Modern Spain: John of the Cross, Francisco de Aldana, Luis de Leon Terence O'Reilly 9781032008912
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.98Humanism and Religion in Early Modern Spain brings together twenty-five essays by renowned historian Terence O'Reilly. The essays examine the interplay of religion and humanism in a series of... -
Historical Dictionary of Medieval Philosophy and Theology by Stephen F. Brown 9781538114308
Booksplease Price: $219.24This second edition concentrates on various philosophers and theologians from the medieval Arabian, Jewish, and Christian worlds. It principally centers on authors such as Abumashar, Saadiah Gaon and... -
Symphorien Champier: The Ship of Virtuous Ladies by Todd W Reeser
Booksplease Price: $62.99First published in 1503 in Lyons, Symphorien Champier's The Ship of Virtuous Ladies helped launch the French Renaissance version of the querelle des femmes, the debate over the nature and status of... -
Latin: A Linguistic Introduction by Renato Oniga 9780198702863
Booksplease Price: $84.61This textbook provides a detailed introduction to the study of Latin from the perspective of contemporary linguistics. It adopts some basic tenets of generative grammar in an in-depth analysis of the... -
Sculpter à la Renaissance: Un art pour (é)mouvoir: Renaissance Sculpture: An Art to Persuade Marc Bormand 9788833672724
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $38.61This volume collects the papers presented at the international study conference Sculpting in the Renaissance: an art to (com)move / Sculpter a la Renaissance. Un art pour (e)mouvoir organised by the... -
Heretical Aesthetics: Pasolini on Painting by Pier Paolo Pasolini 9781804291283
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $30.60One of Europe's most mythologized Marxist intellectuals of the 20th century, Pier Paolo Pasolini was not only a poet, filmmaker, novelist, and political martyr. He was also a keen critic of painting... -
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa Anthony Grafton 9780140276916
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50At the heart of the extraordinary ferment of the High Renaissance stood a distinctive, strange and beguiling figure: the magus. An unstable mix of scientist, bibliophile, engineer, fabulist and... -
A History of Light: The Idea of Photography by Junko Theresa Mikuriya 9781350084575
Booksplease Price: $72.97When was photography invented, in 1826 with the first permanent photograph? If we depart from the technologically oriented accounts and consider photography as a philosophical discourse an... -
Niccolo Di Lorenzo Della Magna and the Social World of Florentine Printing, Ca. 1470-1493 by Lorenz Boeninger
RRP: $87.65Booksplease Price: $72.62A new history of one of the foremost printers of the Renaissance explores how the Age of Print came to Italy.Lorenz Boeninger offers a fresh history of the birth of print in Italy through the story... -
Money over Two Centuries: Selected Topics in British Monetary History by Forrest Capie 9780199655120
Booksplease Price: $214.73This collection of essays by the eminent financial and monetary historians Forrest Capie and Geoffrey Wood examines and offers explanations of the parts played by money and the banking system in the... -
Ambivalences by Chiara Montenero 9781849431323
Booksplease Price: $38.43Ambivalences: A Portrait of Arnold Wesker from A to W is a document of Arnold Wesker in conversation with the Italian academic Chiara Montenero. In their wide-ranging discussions, Wesker and... -
Philosophies of the Afterlife in the Early Italian Renaissance: Fifteenth-Century Sources on the Immortality of the Soul Joanna Papiernik 9781350345829
Booksplease Price: $59.55The immortality of the soul is one of the oldest tropes in the history of philosophy and one that gained significant momentum in 16th-century Europe. But what came before Pietro Pomponazzi and his... -
Magic in Western Culture: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment by Brian P. Copenhaver 9781107692176
RRP: $72.15Booksplease Price: $66.87The story of the beliefs and practices called 'magic' starts in ancient Iran, Greece, and Rome, before entering its crucial Christian phase in the Middle Ages. Centering on the Renaissance and... -
Carbon Conundrum: How to Save Climate Change Policy from Government Failure: 2022 by Philip Booth
RRP: $24.38Booksplease Price: $23.83Politicians around the world have signed up to achieving carbon net zero by 2050. And several countries, including the UK and those in the EU, have struck a 'new green deal'. This puts environmental... -
Ficino in Spain by Susan Byrne 9781442650565
RRP: $105.30Booksplease Price: $87.54As the first translator of Plato's complete works into Latin, the Florentine writer Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) and his blend of Neoplatonic and Hermetic philosophy were fundamental to the intellectual... -
From Gabriel to Lucifer by Valery Rees 9781784534318
Booksplease Price: $49.96For sceptics, angels may be no more than metaphors: poetic devices to convey, at least for those with a religious sensibility, an active divine interest in creation. But for others, angels are... -
Picatrix: A Medieval Treatise on Astral Magic by Dan Attrell 9780271082127
RRP: $60.43Booksplease Price: $57.27A manual for constructing talismans, mixing magical compounds, summoning planetary spirits, and determining astrological conditions, Picatrix is a cornerstone of Western esotericism. It offers... -
Francis Bacon on Motion and Power by Guido Giglioni 9783319276397
Booksplease Price: $177.18This book offers a comprehensive and unitary study of the philosophy of Francis Bacon, with special emphasis on the medical, ethical and political aspects of his thought. It presents an original... -
The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance: Language, Philosophy, and the Search for Meaning by Christopher S. Celenza 9781107003620
RRP: $224.25Booksplease Price: $217.11In this book, Christopher Celenza provides an intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance during the long fifteenth century, from c.1350-1525. His book fills a bibliographic gap between Petrarch...