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The Preacher's Demons

Bernardino of Siena and the Social Underworld of Early Renaissance Italy

By: Franco Mormando

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The Preacher's Demons

Bernardino of Siena and the Social Underworld of Early Renaissance Italy

By: Franco Mormando

When the city was filled with these bonfires, he then combed the city, and whenever he received notice of some public sodomite, he had him immediately seized and thrown into the nearest bonfire at hand and had him burned immediately." This story, of an anonymous individual who sought to cleanse medieval Paris, was part of a sermon delivered in Siena, Italy, in 1427. The speaker, the friar Bernardino (1380-1444), was one of the most important public figures of the time, and he spent forty years combing the towns of Italy, instructing, admonishing, and entertaining the crowds that gathered in prodigious numbers to hear his sermons. His story of the Parisian vigilante was a recommendation. Sexual deviants were the objects of relentless, unconditional persecution in Bernardino's sermons. Other targets of the preacher's venom were witches, Jews, and heretics. Mormando takes us into the social underworld of early Renaissance Italy to discover how one enormously influential figure helped to dramatically increase fear, hatred, and intolerance for those on society's margins. This book is the first on Bernardino to appear in thirty-five years, and the first ever to consider the preacher's inflammatory role in Renaissance social issues.

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385

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University of Chicago Press

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0226538540

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9780226538549

Europe and Islam

By: Franco Cardini

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Europe and Islam

By: Franco Cardini

In this book Franco Cardini examines the ideas, prejudices, disinformation and anti-information that have formed and coloured Europe's attitude towards Islam over 1500 years.

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256

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Wiley-Blackwell

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063119732X

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9780631197324

A History of Siena

From its Origins to the Present Day

By: Mario Ascheri,Bradley Franco

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A History of Siena

From its Origins to the Present Day

By: Mario Ascheri,Bradley Franco

A History of Siena provides a concise and up-to-date biography of the city, from its ancient and medieval development up to the present day, and makes Siena’s history, culture, and traditions accessible to anyone studying or visiting the city. Well informed by archival research and recent scholarship on medieval Siena and the Italian city-states, this book places Siena’s development in its larger context, both temporally and geographically. In the process, this book offers new interpretations of Siena’s artistic, political, and economic development, highlighting in particular the role of pilgrimage, banking, and class conflict. The second half of the book provides an important analysis of the historical development of Siena’s nobility, its unique system of neighborhood associations (contrade) and the race of the Palio, as well as an overview of the rise and fall of Siena’s troubled bank, the Monte dei Paschi. This book is accessible to undergraduates and tourists, while also offering plenty of new insights for graduate students and scholars of all periods of Sienese history.

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262

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Routledge

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1351866788

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9781351866781

The Impact of Space Experiments on Our Knowledge of the Physics of the Universe

By: Franco Giovannelli,Lola Sabau-Graziati

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The Impact of Space Experiments on Our Knowledge of the Physics of the Universe

By: Franco Giovannelli,Lola Sabau-Graziati

Space experiments have opened practically all electromagnetic windows on the Universe. A discussion of the most important results obtained with multi-frequency photonic astrophysics experiments will provide new input to advance our knowledge of physics, very often in its more extreme conditions. A multitude of high quality data across the whole electromagnetic spectrum came at the scientific community's disposal a few years after the beginning of the Space Era. With these data we are attempting to explain the physics governing the Universe and its origin, which continues to be a matter of the greatest curiosity for humanity. In this book we describe the latest steps of the investigations born with the advent of space experiments. We highlight the most important results, identify unsolved problems, and comment on perspectives we can reasonably expect. This book aims to provide a useful tool for the reader who is not specialized in space astrophysics and for students. Therefore, the book is written in the form of a review with a still reasonable length, taking into account the complexity of the arguments discussed. We do not claim to present a complete picture of the physics governing the Universe, but have rather selected particular topics for a more thorough discussion. A cross section of essays on historical, modern, and philosophical topics is offered and combined with personal views into tricks of the space astrophysics trade.

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448

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9401733589

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9789401733588

Poems and Selected Letters

By: Veronica Franco

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Poems and Selected Letters

By: Veronica Franco

Veronica Franco (whose life is featured in the motion picture Dangerous Beauty) was a sixteenth-century Venetian beauty, poet, and protofeminist. This collection captures the frank eroticism and impressive eloquence that set her apart from the chaste, silent woman prescribed by Renaissance gender ideology. As an "honored courtesan", Franco made her living by arranging to have sexual relations, for a high fee, with the elite of Venice and the many travelers—merchants, ambassadors, even kings—who passed through the city. Courtesans needed to be beautiful, sophisticated in their dress and manners, and elegant, cultivated conversationalists. Exempt from many of the social and educational restrictions placed on women of the Venetian patrician class, Franco used her position to recast "virtue" as "intellectual integrity," offering wit and refinement in return for patronage and a place in public life. Franco became a writer by allying herself with distinguished men at the center of her city's culture, particularly in the informal meetings of a literary salon at the home of Domenico Venier, the oldest member of a noble family and a former Venetian senator. Through Venier's protection and her own determination, Franco published work in which she defended her fellow courtesans, speaking out against their mistreatment by men and criticizing the subordination of women in general. Venier also provided literary counsel when she responded to insulting attacks written by the male Venetian poet Maffio Venier. Franco's insight into the power conflicts between men and women and her awareness of the threat she posed to her male contemporaries make her life and work pertinent today.

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327

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University of Chicago Press

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0226259854

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9780226259857

Lawrence d'Arabia

By: Franco Cardini

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Lawrence d'Arabia

By: Franco Cardini

Dalla radio al libro. Lo storico dell'Oriente Cardini racconta il suo percorso di indagine nella figura storico-psicologica dell'agente di Sua Maestà suscitatore dell'orgoglio arabo: eroe o traditore? O tutt'e due?

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Sellerio Editore srl

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8838929424

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9788838929427

Hoffa's Man

The Rise and Fall of Jimmy Hoffa as Witnessed by His Strongest Arm

By: Joseph Franco,Richard Hammer

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Hoffa's Man

The Rise and Fall of Jimmy Hoffa as Witnessed by His Strongest Arm

By: Joseph Franco,Richard Hammer

In this blistering story of power abused, Richard Hammer documents the rise and fall of Jimmy Hoffa as witnessed by Joe France, one of his most trusted lieutenants.

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Prentice Hall

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0135177642

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9780135177648

Book's by Franco Cardini

The Preacher's Demons

The Preacher's Demons

Europe and Islam

Europe and Islam

A History of Siena

A History of Siena

The Impact of Space Experiments on Our Knowledge of the Physics of the Universe

The Impact of Space Experiments on Our Knowledge of the Physics of the Universe

Poems and Selected Letters

Poems and Selected Letters

Lawrence d'Arabia

Lawrence d'Arabia

Hoffa's Man

Hoffa's Man

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