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Pages: 252
Pages: 252
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-12-31 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
"As recounted here by Ingrid D. Rowland, Curzio preyed on the Italian fixation with ancestry to forge an array of ancient Latin and Etruscan documents. For auth
Language: en
Pages: 244
Pages: 244
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
A precocious teenager, bored with life at his family's Tuscan villa Scornello, Curzio Inghirami staged perhaps the most outlandish prank of the seventeenth cent
Language: en
Pages: 352
Pages: 352
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-26 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Giordano Bruno is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowland's pathbreaking life of Bruno establishes h
Language: en
Pages: 317
Pages: 317
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Gratuitous sex. Graphic violence. Lies, revenge, and murder. Before there was digital cable or reality television, there was Renaissance Italy and the courts in
Language: en
Pages: 220
Pages: 220
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: New York Review of Books
Polymathic Renaissance scholars such as Girolamo Cardano, Giordano Bruno, Galileo, and Athanasius Kircher.
