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The Italian Renaissance of Machines
The Renaissance was not just a rebirth of the mind. It was also a new dawn for the machine. When we celebrate the achievements of the Renaissance, we instinctively refer, above all, to its artistic and literary masterpieces. During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, however, the Italian peninsula was the stage of a no-less-impressive revival of technical knowledge and practice. In this rich and lavishly illustrated volume, Paolo Galluzzi guides readers through a singularly inventive period, capturing the fusion of artistry and engineering that spurred some of the Renaissance’s greatest technological breakthroughs. Galluzzi traces the emergence of a new and important historical figure: ...
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François de Neufchâteau
À distance de la biographie classique et de l'histoire des idées, cet essai de biographie intellectuelle mobilise l'argumentation biographique au service de la compréhension d'une œuvre complexe et méconnue, celle de Nicolas-Louis François de Neufchâteau (1750-1828). Cette œuvre traverse trois configurations distinctes qui coïncident avec trois temps de l'histoire nationale : le champ littéraire à l'apogée des Lumières, le champ politique pendant la décennie révolutionnaire, le champ de l'expertise savante du Consulat à la Restauration. L'itinéraire auquel nous convie l'ouvrage franchit ainsi l'une des discontinuités majeures de notre histoire, à laquelle il s'affronte. L'enjeu est ici de comprendre les modalités intellectuelles de ce franchissement et les reconfigurations qu'il implique. L'élucidation des traits susceptibles de nouer ensemble les carrières successives du poète, de l'administrateur deux fois ministre sous le Directoire, de l'agronome et de l'académicien fait entendre le dialogue d'un homme avec son époque et donne à voir la manière dont peut être assurée, à un moment donné, la lisibilité réciproque des écrits et des actes.
The Medicean Succession
Cosimo dei Medici stabilized ducal finances, secured his borders, doubled his territory, attracted scholars and artists to his court, academy, and universities, and dissipated fractious Florentine politics. These triumphs were far from a foregone conclusion, as Gregory Murry shows in this study of how Cosimo crafted his image as a sacral monarch.
Episcopal Power and Florentine Society, 1000-1320
This first detailed study of the bishops of Florence tells the story of a dynamic Italian lordship during the most prosperous period of the Middle Ages. Drawing upon a rich base of primary sources, Dameron demonstrates that the nature of the Florentine episcopal lordship results from the tension between seigneurial pressure and peasant resistance. Implicit throughout is the assumption that episcopal lordship relied upon both the bishop's jurisdictional power and his spiritual or sacramental power. The story of the Florentine bishops illuminates important moments in Italian history. The development of the Florentine elite, for example, is closely tied to the political and economic privileges ...
Reviving the Eternal City
In 1420, after more than one hundred years of the Avignon Exile and the Western Schism, the papal court returned to Rome, which had become depopulated, dangerous, and impoverished in the papacy's absence. Reviving the Eternal City examines the culture of Rome and the papal court during the first half of the fifteenth century. As Elizabeth McCahill explains, during these decades Rome and the Curia were caught between conflicting realities--between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, between conciliarism and papalism, between an image of Rome as a restored republic and a dream of the city as a papal capital. Through the testimony of humanists' rhetorical texts and surviving archival materials...
Brinkman's cumulatieve catalogus van boeken
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