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The Pope's Daughter

The Extraordinary Life of Felice della Rovere

By: Caroline P. Murphy

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The Pope's Daughter

The Extraordinary Life of Felice della Rovere

By: Caroline P. Murphy

The illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II, Felice della Rovere became one of the most powerful and accomplished women of the Italian Renaissance. Now, Caroline Murphy vividly captures the untold story of a rare woman who moved with confidence through a world of popes and princes. Using a wide variety of sources, including Felice's personal correspondence, as well as diaries, account books, and chronicles of Renaissance Rome, Murphy skillfully weaves a compelling portrait of this remarkable woman. Felice della Rovere was to witness Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel, watch her father Pope Julius II lay the foundation stone for the new Saint Peter's, and saw herself immortalized by Raphael in his Vatican frescos. With her marriage to Gian Giordano Orsini--arranged, though not attended, by her father the Pope--she came to possess great wealth and power, assets which she used to her advantage. While her father lived, Felice exercised much influence in the affairs of Rome, even egotiating for peace with the Queen of France. After his death, Felice persevered, making allies of the cardinals and clerics of St. Peter's and maintaining her control of the Orsini land through tenacity, ingenuity, and carefully cultivated political savvy. She survived the Sack of Rome in 1527, but her greatest enemy proved to be her own stepson Napoleone, whose rivalry with his stepbrother Girolamo ended suddenly and violently, and brought her perilously close to losing everything she had spent her life acquiring. With a marvelous cast of characters, The Pope's Daughter is a spellbinding biography set against the brilliant backdrop of Renaissance Rome.

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Oxford University Press

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0199741158

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Murder of a Medici Princess

By: Caroline Murphy

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Murder of a Medici Princess

By: Caroline Murphy

Murphy illuminates the brilliant life and tragic death of Isabella de Medici, one of the brightest stars in the dazzling world of Renaissance Italy. The author's fast-paced narrative captures the intrigue, scandal, romantic affairs, and the violence that were commonplace in the Florentine court.

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Oxford University Press

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0195385837

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Lavinia Fontana

A Painter and Her Patrons in Sixteenth-century Bologna

By: Caroline Murphy

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Lavinia Fontana

A Painter and Her Patrons in Sixteenth-century Bologna

By: Caroline Murphy

Bolognese painter Lavinia Fontana was the most significant and prolific woman artist of Renaissance Europe. Her large and renowned body of work encompasses several genres, including altarpieces, history paintings, and portraits. This extensively illustrated book is the first comprehensive study of Fontana in the English language. Art historian Caroline P. Murphy assesses the relation of Fontana's native city of Bologna to the artist's work and career, proposing that the unique attributes of the city, its religious and social climate and the citizens who became Fontana's patrons contributed importantly to her success as an artist." "Employing an especially varied set of source materials, from personal letters, baptismal records, property inventories, and wills to such contemporary printed sources as sermons, poems, and scientific treatises, the book opens a window on the little-known world of a professional woman of Renaissance Italy."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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0300099134

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9780300099133

Murder of a Medici Princess

By: Caroline P. Murphy

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Murder of a Medici Princess

By: Caroline P. Murphy

In Murder of a Medici Princess, Caroline Murphy illuminates the brilliant life and tragic death of Isabella de Medici, one of the brightest stars in the dazzling world of Renaissance Italy, the daughter of Duke Cosimo I, ruler of Florence and Tuscany. Murphy is a superb storyteller, and her fast-paced narrative captures the intrigue, the scandal, the romantic affairs, and the violence that were commonplace in the Florentine court. She brings to life an extraordinary woman, fluent in five languages, a free-spirited patron of the arts, a daredevil, a practical joker, and a passionate lover. Isabella, in fact, conducted numerous affairs, including a ten-year relationship with the cousin of her violent and possessive husband. Her permissive lifestyle, however, came to an end upon the death of her father, who was succeeded by her disapproving older brother Francesco. Considering Isabella's ways to be licentious and a disgrace upon the family, he permitted her increasingly enraged husband to murder her in a remote Medici villa. To tell this dramatic story, Murphy draws on a vast trove of newly discovered and unpublished documents, ranging from Isabella's own letters, to the loose-tongued dispatches of ambassadors to Florence, to contemporary descriptions of the opulent parties and balls, salons and hunts in which Isabella and her associates participated. Murphy resurrects the exciting atmosphere of Renaissance Florence, weaving Isabella's beloved city into her story, evoking the intellectual and artistic community that thrived during her time. Palaces and gardens in the city become places of creativity and intrigue, sites of seduction, and grounds for betrayal. Here then is a narrative of compelling and epic proportions, magnificent and alluring, decadent and ultimately tragic.

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Oxford University Press

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0199839891

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The Pope's Daughter

The Extraordinary Life of Felice della Rovere

By: Caroline P. Murphy

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The Extraordinary Life of Felice della Rovere

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Rating Scales in Psychiatry

By: Peter Tyrer,Caroline Methuen

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Rating Scales in Psychiatry

By: Peter Tyrer,Caroline Methuen

Selection of the best outcome measures is a crucial step in psychiatric research. There are excellent instruments available for most areas of interest and researchers are often faced with a confusing choice. Getting it right will save you time and money, affect the validity and comparability of your results and, ultimately, improve the impact of your publications." "This booklet, will help guide you through the process of selecting which rating scales to use in your research. Each scale is listed with its citation rate - a useful guide to its popularity among the research community and the potential comparability of results."--BOOK JACKET.

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RCPsych Publications

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1904671535

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The Silent Experiences of Young Bilingual Learners

A Sociocultural Study into the Silent Period

By: Caroline Bligh

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The Silent Experiences of Young Bilingual Learners

A Sociocultural Study into the Silent Period

By: Caroline Bligh

Many teachers are increasingly concerned with how to best support the learning of the rising numbers of bilingual learners in schools – particularly those children who are new to English and therefore cannot yet communicate with the teacher or their peers in their first language – during the silent period. This book offers an alternative insight to that which is most commonly available to teachers and researchers, as instead of examining language acquisition purely from a linguistic approach; it explores the learning that is occurring through a sociocultural lens and even more significantly, from the young child’s perspective – the worm’s eye view. Investigated through the experiences of young bilingual learners allows the reader to make sense of the making meaning that occurs when the child cannot make sense of his/her new ‘world’; nor communicate verbally in the language of instruction in the classroom. Remarkably, learning through the silent period is revealed as both complex and ‘messy’ as the bilingual child mediates his or her own learning through a synthesis of alternative learning pathways. The silent period is presented as a crucial time for learning; distributed through a synthesis of close observation, intense listening and most significantly copying the practices of others. Throughout the silent period the children are not only seen to be learning but also contributing to the classroom practices. The book not only initiates new understandings of second language learning, but also offers creative ideas on how to raise the achievement of children who are learning English as an additional language.

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Springer

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9462097976

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9789462097971

Lawyering Skills and the Legal Process

By: Caroline Maughan,Julian Webb

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Lawyering Skills and the Legal Process

By: Caroline Maughan,Julian Webb

Lawyering Skills and the Legal Process bridges the gap between academic and practical law for students undertaking skills-based and clinical legal education courses at university. It develops oral and written communication, group working, problem solving and conflict resolution skills in a range of legal contexts: client interviewing, drafting, managing cases, legal negotiation and advocacy. The book is designed specifically to help students to practise and develop skills that will be essential in a range of occupations; develop a deeper understanding of the English legal process and the lawyer's role in that process; enhance their understanding of the relationship between legal skills and ethics; and understand how they learn and how they can make their learning more effective. This book provides a stimulating, accessible and challenging approach to understanding the problems and uncertainties of practising law that goes beyond the standard approaches to lawyers' skills.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316101851

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9781316101858

Teaching and Learning About Islam: Essays in Understanding

By: Adam Boxer,Caroline Ellwood

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Teaching and Learning About Islam: Essays in Understanding

By: Adam Boxer,Caroline Ellwood

With a foreword by HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan, this collection of contributions from leading contributors on the teaching of Islam in schools is aimed as a step towards improving intercultural understanding.

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John Catt

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1908095539

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9781908095534

Equity in the Classroom

Towards Effective Pedagogy for Girls and Boys

By: Caroline V. Gipps

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Equity in the Classroom

Towards Effective Pedagogy for Girls and Boys

By: Caroline V. Gipps

Concerned with pedagogy and the learning achievement of both girls and boys, this book examines international trends in subject performance throughout schooling and looks critically at a range of interventions in difference contexts and countries, all aimed at enhancing equity in schools and higher education institutions.; The book argues that pedagogy can not be isolated from the overarching gender-education system. What can be done, it claims, is that teachers can be provided with a range of pedagogic strategies which can be used to make education, as it is experienced by students and reflected in their achievements, more just.

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Routledge

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1135716811

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Book's by Caroline P. Murphy

The Pope's Daughter

The Pope's Daughter

Murder of a Medici Princess

Murder of a Medici Princess

Lavinia Fontana

Lavinia Fontana

Murder of a Medici Princess

Murder of a Medici Princess

The Pope's Daughter

The Pope's Daughter

Rating Scales in Psychiatry

Rating Scales in Psychiatry

The Silent Experiences of Young Bilingual Learners

The Silent Experiences of Young Bilingual Learners

Lawyering Skills and the Legal Process

Lawyering Skills and the Legal Process

Teaching and Learning About Islam: Essays in Understanding

Teaching and Learning About Islam: Essays in Understanding

Equity in the Classroom

Equity in the Classroom

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