San Antonio College Library

"This book is about the life and times of a genius," A. C. Grayling declares at the beginning of Descartes. Indeed, René Descartes (1596-1650) was one of the founders of the modern world. his life span -- the first half of the miraculous deventeenth century -- was replete with genius in the arts and sciences, and wracked by civil and international conflicts across Europe. At his birth, the world was still dominated by medieval beliefs in miracles...

"Publishing The Prince illustrates how Abraham-Nicolas Amelot de La Houssaye created the most popular version of Machiavelli's The Prince of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In translating, Amelot also transformed, altering the form and meaning through his prefaces and commentaries, while marketing to a general audience. His translations were then translated into other languages, and his ideas spread." "Revising the orthodox schema...

Domna Stanton discusses self-fashioning among French aristocrats in the seventeenth century.