De Montaigne, The Complete Essays
Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay as a literary form.In 1572, Montaigne ...
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Vasari says, and rightly, in his Life of Leonardo, “that he laboured much more by his word than in fact or by deed”, and the ...
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The young student should, in the first place, acquire a knowledge of perspective, to enable him to give to every object its proper dimensions: after ...
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Calvin’s core teachings about God’s eternal election and reprobation. This important treatise was published in 1552 respectively and lay locked in the original language of ...
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Calvin’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 ...
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Giordano Bruno’s The Ash Wednesday Supper is the first of six philosophical dialogues in Italian that he wrote and published in London between 1584 and ...
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Published only posthumously, Giordano Bruno’s essays collected here present a window into late 16th century thinking about natural philosophy as an emerging discipline that would ...
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The first complete modern translation of Bruno’s “De Imaginum Signorum et Idearum Composition,” first published in 1591, a complex multilevel work that incorporates astrology, hermetic, ...
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Giordano Bruno’s notorious public death in 1600, at the hands of the Inquisition in Rome, marked the transition from Renaissance philosophy to the Scientific Revolution ...
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Published in 1494 in Basel, The Ship of Fools was soon translated into every major European language. It provoked a vast number of imitations and ...
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