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The Comedies of Machiavelli

The Woman from Andros; The Mandrake; Clizia

By: Niccolo Machiavelli,James B. Atkinson

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The Comedies of Machiavelli

The Woman from Andros; The Mandrake; Clizia

By: Niccolo Machiavelli,James B. Atkinson

Though better known today as a political theorist than as a dramatist, Machiavelli secured his fame as a giant in the history of Italian comedy more than fifty years before Shakespeare's comedies delighted English-speaking audiences. This bilingual edition includes all three examples of Machiavelli's comedic art: sparkling translations of his farcical masterpiece, The Mandrake; of his version of Terence's The Woman From Andros; and of his Plautus-inspired Clizia--works whose genre afforded Machiavelli a unique vehicle not only for entertaining audiences but for examining virtue amid the twists and turns of fortune.

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Hackett Publishing

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1603840257

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9781603840255

Armorial of Jersey

By: James Bertrand Payne

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Armorial of Jersey

By: James Bertrand Payne

being an account, heraldic and antiquarian, of its chief native families, with pedigrees, biographical notices, and illustrative data; to which are added, a brief history of heraldry, and remarks on the medi?val antiquities of the island

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589

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Рипол Классик

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5881622669

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9785881622664

Fairbairn’s Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland

By: James Fairbairn

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Fairbairn’s Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland

By: James Fairbairn

In two volumes. Volume I: 601 pages including a 522 page index of family names, in alphabetical order, describing the crest of every name listed and where to find an illustration in the volume of plates; a glossary of heraldic terms and other words; and nearly seventy pages of family mottoes with translations of those in Latin, French or other foreign languages. Volume II: contains 130 plates, each depicting 15 family crests in b&w and a further 18 plates illustrating regalia, insignia, crowns, flags, monograms, arms of principal cities etc. also in b&w. There is a key to all the plates which, in the case of the crests, shows which families have which crest.

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798

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Andrews UK Limited

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1781502455

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9781781502457

The Baroque Double Bass Violone

By: Alfred Planyavsky,James Barket

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The Baroque Double Bass Violone

By: Alfred Planyavsky,James Barket

In the nineteenth century, use of the violone, a bass instrument with many sizes and variations, was nearly eliminated from musical repertoires, and its traditional parts were parceled out to other instruments such as the violoncello. The following phases of revival of the double-bass have been hampered by a lack of physical evidence and diligent research into the historical uses of the instrument. The Baroque Double Bass Violone is a comprehensive study that examines a cross-section of standard works to enhance contemporary violone research, and provide information for musicologists, music publishers, ensemble leaders, and revivalists, all of whom have been unable to reconstruct an essential part of Baroque music. This translation finally makes the most exhaustive study of the double bass violone accessible to English-speaking musical enthusiasts. The book includes lists of terminology, the most comprehensive bibliography to date, and 48 illustrations that make this a compendium of string bass research.

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Scarecrow Press

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146167249X

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The Dictation Lesson and Spelling Book

By: James Burton

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The Dictation Lesson and Spelling Book

By: James Burton

Reprint of the original, first published in 1868.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3375043759

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A Handbook of Proverbs

By: James Allan Mair

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A Handbook of Proverbs

By: James Allan Mair

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

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3368182978

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Latin Rhetoric and Education in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

By: James J. Murphy

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Latin Rhetoric and Education in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

By: James J. Murphy

The essays in this volume deal with the history of rhetoric and education for the thousand years from the early Middle Ages to the European Renaissance. They represent the author's pioneering efforts over four decades to piece together a kind of mosaic which will provide elements necessary to construct a history of that thousand years of language activity. Some essays deal with individual writers like Giles of Rome, Peter Ramus, Gulielmus Traversanus, or Antonio Nebrija, some focus on the influence of Cicero and Quintilian and other ancient sources. The essays dealing specifically with education open up different inquiries into the ways language use was promoted, and by whom. Others explore the relations between Latin rhetoric and medieval English literature and, finally, several deal with the impact of printing, a subject still not completely understood.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000951626

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The Divine Primacy of the Bishop of Rome and Modern Eastern Orthodoxy

By: James Likoudis

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The Divine Primacy of the Bishop of Rome and Modern Eastern Orthodoxy

By: James Likoudis

Despite real progress in ecumenical relations between Catholics and Eastern Orthodox, the last several years have seen an increase in bitter attacks on papal supremacy and infallibility. In this newly revised and expanded work, James Likoudis treats in detail Eastern Orthodox ecclesiology and replies to objections made to critical elements of Roman Catholic doctrine on: The pope’s primacy of supremacy and infallibility, The procession of the Holy Spirit, The filioque clause, The dogma of the Immaculate Conception, Purgatory, and The development of doctrine. With The Divine Primacy of the Bishop of Rome & Modern Eastern Orthodoxy, Likoudis contributes to today’s Catholic–Orthodox dialog by going back to the “undivided Church of the First Millennium,” where we see clearly the existence of a papal primacy of universal jurisdiction.

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Emmaus Road Publishing

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1645853152

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The Architecture Of Global Governance

An Introduction To The Study Of International Organizations

By: James P Muldoon, Jr.

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The Architecture Of Global Governance

An Introduction To The Study Of International Organizations

By: James P Muldoon, Jr.

A beautifully illustrated textbook of the history, theory and current state of international organizations which increasingly oversee aspects of international affairs and the world's transition to a new global order.. This new and timely textbook recounts the historical and theoretical development of the international system in a lively analysis o

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Routledge

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0429965389

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9780429965388

A Renaissance Marriage

The Political and Personal Alliance of Isabella d'Este and Francesco Gonzaga, 1490-1519

By: Carolyn James

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A Renaissance Marriage

The Political and Personal Alliance of Isabella d'Este and Francesco Gonzaga, 1490-1519

By: Carolyn James

The marriage of Isabella d'Este, one of the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance, and Francesco Gonzaga, ruler of the small northern Italian principality of Mantua (r.1484-1519) offers a fascinating portrait of political marriage in the early modern period. A Renaissance Marriage shows an aristocratic couple who, within several years of their wedding, had to deal with the political challenges posed by the first decades of the Italian Wars (1494-1559) and, later, the scourge of the Great Pox, humanising a relationship that was organised for entirely strategic reasons, but had to be inhabited emotionally if it was to produce the political and dynastic advantages that had inspired the match. Carolyn James draws on unpublished correspondence between Isabella and Francesco over twenty-nine years, as well as their correspondence with relatives and courtiers, to show how their personal rapport evolved and how they cooperated in the governance of a princely state. Hitherto examined mainly from literary and religious perspectives, and on the basis of legal evidence and prescriptive literature, early modern marriage emerges here in vivid detail, offering the reader access to aspects of the lived experience of an elite Renaissance marital relationship. The study also contributes to our understanding of the history of emotions, of politics and military conflict, of childbirth, childhood and family life, and of the history of disease and medicine.

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Oxford University Press

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0191503282

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9780191503283

Correspondence of James K. Polk: 1817-1832

By: James Knox Polk

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Correspondence of James K. Polk: 1817-1832

By: James Knox Polk

In the second half of 1845 the focus of Polk's correspondence shifted from those issues relating to the formation of his administration and distribution of part patronage to those that would give shape and consequence to his presidency: the admission of Texas, preparation for its defense, restoration of diplomatic relations with Mexico, and termination of joint occupancy of the Oregon Country. For the most part the incoming letters tended to urge rather more militancy on the Texas and Oregon questions than Polk would adopt, and notions of national destiny registered a singular theme of buoyant confidence in taking on both Mexico and Great Britain if military action should be required. President Polk and Secretary of State James Buchanan succeeded in both using and controlling the surge of nationalism that heightened expectations for expansion westward. Polk and Buchanan agreed on the importance of reestablishing diplomatic relations with Mexico, but the President chose to take a personal hand in managing the selection and instruction of John Slidell, whose departure for Vera Cruz would not be made public until he had arrived in Mexico. Polk wanted to give the fledgling Mexican administration of Jose Joaquin Herrera a chance to compose Mexico's differences with Washington free of contrary pressures from Great Britain and France; and he fully understood the price that Herrara might pay for a peaceful settlement of the Texas question. If Mexico required more than $6 million for the purchase of their two most northern provinces, as provided in his instructions, Slidell might agree to any reasonable additional sum. Slidell's mission probably never had much chance of success, for without control of his military the Herrara administration could neither give up its claim to Texas nor overcome British opposition to the sale of New Mexico and Upper California. Within but a few days of Slidell's arrival in the Mexican capital, Mariano Paredes y Argilla organized a military coup, put the Herrera government to flight, and on January 2, 1846, declared himself interim of president of Mexico. Polk left on the table his predecessor's initiative to divide the Oregon Country at the 49th parallel with all of Vancouver Island going to the British. The summary rejection of that offer by the British minister to Washington, Richard Packenham, so angered Polk that on August 30th he formally withdrew all prior offers to settle the dispute. The British foreign secretary, Lord Aberdeen, disavowed and assured the U.S. minister to Britain, Louis McLane, that no ultimatum had been sanctioned by his government. Buchanan tried in vain to soften Polk's decision to initiate further negotiations, but he had determined to give the required one year advance notice prior to abrogating the treaty of joint occupancy. Accordingly, in his First Annual Message to Congress Polk asked for a joint resolution terminating Oregon agreements with Great Britain. Polk received high praise for his Message and its hard line on Texas and Oregon. In addition to the texts, briefs, and annotations, the editors have calendared all of the documents for the last six months of 1845. Entries for unpublished letters include documents' dates, addresses, classifications, repositories, and precis. The Polk Project is sponsored by the University of Tennessee and assisted by grants from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the Nations Endowment for the Humantines, and the Tennessee Historical Commission. The Authors: Wayne Cutler is research professor of history at the University of Tennessee. He earned his bachelor's degree at Lamar University and his master's and doctor's degrees and University of Texas at Austin. Professor Cutler became director of the Polk Project in 1975, served as associate editor in the fourth volume of the correspondence, and headed the editorial team in the preparation of the series' fifth and subsequent volumes. He began his professional career

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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0826511465

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9780826511461

Memoir and Correspondence of the Late Sir James Edward Smith, M.D.

By: James Edward Smith

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Memoir and Correspondence of the Late Sir James Edward Smith, M.D.

By: James Edward Smith

A memoir, published in 1832 by his wife, of Sir James Edward Smith (1759-1828), founder of the Linnean Society.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108037070

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9781108037075

Book's by James Spero (col)

The Comedies of Machiavelli

The Comedies of Machiavelli

Armorial of Jersey

Armorial of Jersey

Fairbairn’s Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland

Fairbairn’s Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland

The Baroque Double Bass Violone

The Baroque Double Bass Violone

The Dictation Lesson and Spelling Book

The Dictation Lesson and Spelling Book

A Handbook of Proverbs

A Handbook of Proverbs

Latin Rhetoric and Education in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Latin Rhetoric and Education in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

The Divine Primacy of the Bishop of Rome and Modern Eastern Orthodoxy

The Divine Primacy of the Bishop of Rome and Modern Eastern Orthodoxy

The Architecture Of Global Governance

The Architecture Of Global Governance

A Renaissance Marriage

A Renaissance Marriage

Correspondence of James K. Polk: 1817-1832

Correspondence of James K. Polk: 1817-1832

Memoir and Correspondence of the Late Sir James Edward Smith, M.D.

Memoir and Correspondence of the Late Sir James Edward Smith, M.D.

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