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The Book of the Courtier
In The Book of the Courtier (1528), Baldesar Castiglione, a diplomat and Papal Nuncio to Rome, sets out to define the essential virtues for those at Court. In a lively series of …
Life, Letters, and Poetry
The poems have been rendered into vigorous contemporary English. A selection of Michelangelo's letters, many of the to important contemporaries such as Vasari and Duke Cosimo, is …
The Prince
"The Prince" shocked Europe on publication with its ruthless tactics for gaining absolute power and its abandonment of conventional morality. Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) came …
Lives of the Artists
Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. …
Repeated Loads Above the Proportional Limit on 24ST Aluminum Allow
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the …
Defensio Fidei Nicaenae, vol. 1
The Pioneer Boys of the Ohio; or, Clearing the Wilderness
The Pioneer Boys of the Ohio; or, Clearing the Wilderness, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we …
The Prince
Rejecting the traditional values of political theory, Machiavelli drew upon his own experiences of office in the turbulent Florentine republic to write his celebrated treatise on …
Defensio Fidei Nicaenae, vol. 1
Excerpt from Defensio Fidei Nicaenae, Vol. 1 3. I cannot but feel indignation, nay even a degree of horror, so Often as I reflect on these things, and consider the amazing …