In the history of Renaissance thought, Guicciardini’s Ricordi occupy a place of singular importance. Few works of the sixteenth century allow us so penetrating an ...
Continue Reading →Erasmus’ Adagia has been called ‘one of the world’s biggest bedside books,’ and certainly the more than 4000 proverbs and maxims gathered and commented on ...
Continue Reading →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 ...
Continue Reading →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 ...
Continue Reading →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 ...
Continue Reading →Originally published in 1556, Agricola’s De Re Metallica was the first book on mining to be based on field research and observation — what today ...
Continue Reading →In this book, Robert Bork offers a sweeping reassessment of late Gothic architecture and its fate in the Renaissance. In a chronologically organized ...
Continue Reading →“When the young Swiss cultural historian Jacob Burckhardt was hoping to join the faculty at the newly founded Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule in Zurich ...
Continue Reading →In 1956 art historian Panofsky gave four incisive lectures at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University which were subsequently published ...
Continue Reading →Today the Book remains the most reliable and illuminating account of Renaissance court life and of what it took to be the “Perfect ...
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