A long-awaited reassessment of Andrea Palladioโs canonical villas that challenges widely accepted interpretations of the Renaissance architectโs work Many historians of architecture have viewed the ...
Continue Reading โAthanasius Kircher (1602โ80) stands out as one of the last all-encompassing minds. For this true Renaissance man, the whole world was a glorious appearance of ...
Continue Reading โThe Darker Side of the Renaissance weaves together literature, semiotics, history, historiography, cartography, and cultural theory to examine the role of language in the colonization ...
Continue Reading โA collection of essays written essentially by members of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies of the University of California, Los Angeles, exploring certain ...
Continue Reading โExcerpt from Stories of the Italian Artists From Vasari Vasari, and tell the tales as nearly as I can in his own words. His treatment ...
Continue Reading โI quattro libri dell’architettura (The Four Books of Architecture) is a treatise on architecture by the architect Andrea Palladio (1508โ1580), written in Italian. It was ...
Continue Reading โMachiavelli’s Florentine Histories originated under Medici patronage at a moment in which, after the death of Lorenzo the younger in May 1519, Cardinal Giulio de’ ...
Continue Reading โCalvin’s Harmony of the Law is his commentary on the books Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. Whereas the majority of Calvin’s commentaries are chronologically arranged–beginning ...
Continue Reading โOriginally published in 1556, Agricola’s De Re Metallica was the first book on mining to be based on field research and observation โ what today ...
Continue Reading โMomus is the most ambitious literary creation of Leon Battista Alberti, the famous humanist-scientist-artist and โuniversal manโ of the Italian Renaissance. In this ...
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