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The Italian Renaissance retains its extraordinary hold on the historical imagination. What began as arediscoveryy of the culture and values of the ancient world came to invent our notion of the 'Middle Ages' and continues to pose sharp and searching questions as to what we regard as the beginning of the 'modern' era. However, what was 'the Italian Renaissance'? Was there a singlephenomenonn that affected the entire peninsula and had meaning for all...

Issued in a case. "Bibliographical note": pages 150-151.

Selections from the museum with short descriptions by the curator. The City of Florence and the Uffizi Gallery are synonymous with one of the most splendid moments in the history of man: The Renaissance. A tour through the renowned Gallery, as offered in this volume, is a walk back in history to those glorious days. -- Provided by publisher. This volume includes representative works of Italy's most prestigious museum and thus gives the reader a...

"In this intellectual biography, Sebastian de Grazia presents a new vision of Machiavelli that evokes, with uncanny precision, the great Florentine thinker{u2019}s presence. After providing an engrossing account of Machiavelli's childhood and the period following his imprisonment and torture, the book turns to an examination of The Prince. The details of Machiavelli{u2019}s life never cease to weave in and out of the narrative, as we read how his...

At the end of World War II, a mysterious, horribly burned man who claims not to remember his name, known only as the "English patient," lies near death in an Italian villa. He is cared for by a quietly desperate young nurse, Hana, herself a victim of the war. With her at the villa are Kip, a young Sikh bomb-disposal expert, and a shadowy thief with bandaged hands named Caravaggio. The key to the burned man's past may lie in his commonplace book, a...

Pietro Basso argues that the average working time of wage labourers is more intense, fast-paced, flexible, and longer than at any period in recent history. This is true, he posits, not only in industry and agriculture, but also, and particularly, in the service industry. In this comprehensive survey of all the Western countries, not just the US, he demonstrates that extraordinary work pressure is increasing throughout. The introduction of the thirty-five-hour...