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How to Do It shows us sixteenth-century Italy from an entirely new perspective: through manuals which were staples in the households of middlebrow Italians merely trying to lead …
A natural heir of the Renaissance and once tightly conjoined to its study, continental philosophy broke from Renaissance studies around the time of World War II. In The Other …
An interdisciplinary history of standardized measurements.Measurement is all around us from the circumference of a pizza to the square footage of an apartment, from the length of a …
Through much of its history, Italy was Europe's heart of the arts, an artistic playground for foreign elites and powers who bought, sold, and sometimes plundered countless artworks …
Although largely unknown today, during his lifetime Mutio Oddi of Urbino (1569 1639) was a highly esteemed scholar, teacher, and practitioner of a wide range of disciplines related …
When eleven-year-old Lavinia Guasca began her new life as a lady-in-waiting at the court of Turin, she brought with her a parting gift from her father Annibal (1540-1619): a …
Leo Steinberg was one of the most original and daring art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretative risks that challenged the profession by overturning …
The most famous book on politics ever written, The Prince remains as lively and shocking today as when it was written almost five hundred years ago. Initially denounced as a …
Born in Australia, Shirley Hazzard first moved to Naples as a young woman in the 1950s to take up a job with the United Nations. It was the beginning of a long love affair with the …
A study of the networks of opera production and critical discourse that shaped Italian cultural identity during and after Unification.Opera s role in shaping Italian identity has …