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The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

By: Richard Hakluyt

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The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

By: Richard Hakluyt

This twelve-volume edition of the geographical works of Richard Hakluyt (1552?-1616) was published in 1903-5.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108071333

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9781108071338

Chioggia and the Villages of the Venetian Lagoon

Studies in Urban History

By: Richard J. Goy

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Chioggia and the Villages of the Venetian Lagoon

Studies in Urban History

By: Richard J. Goy

A 1985 historical study of a group of villages and one small town, that lie in the lagoons surrounding Venice.

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382

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Cambridge University Press

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0521302757

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9780521302753

The Economy of Renaissance Florence

By: Richard A. Goldthwaite

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The Economy of Renaissance Florence

By: Richard A. Goldthwaite

Winner, 2010 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize, the Renaissance Society of America2009 Outstanding Academic Title, ChoiceHonorable Mention, Economics, 2009 PROSE Awards, Professional and Scholarly Publishing division of the Association of American Publishers Richard A. Goldthwaite, a leading economic historian of the Italian Renaissance, has spent his career studying the Florentine economy. In this magisterial work, Goldthwaite brings together a lifetime of research and insight on the subject, clarifying and explaining the complex workings of Florence’s commercial, banking, and artisan sectors. Florence was one of the most industrialized cities in medieval Europe, thanks to its thriving textile industries. The importation of raw materials and the exportation of finished cloth necessitated the creation of commercial and banking practices that extended far beyond Florence’s boundaries. Part I situates Florence within this wider international context and describes the commercial and banking networks through which the city's merchant-bankers operated. Part II focuses on the urban economy of Florence itself, including various industries, merchants, artisans, and investors. It also evaluates the role of government in the economy, the relationship of the urban economy to the region, and the distribution of wealth throughout the society. While political, social, and cultural histories of Florence abound, none focuses solely on the economic history of the city. The Economy of Renaissance Florence offers both a systematic description of the city's major economic activities and a comprehensive overview of its economic development from the late Middle Ages through the Renaissance to 1600.

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668

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JHU Press

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1421400596

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9781421400594

The Printing Press

A Breakthrough in Communication

By: Richard Tames

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The Printing Press

A Breakthrough in Communication

By: Richard Tames

Surveys the development of the printing press, from advances in Asia and Gutenberg's work in Germany to the profound impact of printing on civilization in general.

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Capstone Classroom

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1403491526

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9781403491527

Orpheus in the Marketplace

Jacopo Peri and the Economy of Late Renaissance Florence

By: Tim Carter,Richard A. Goldthwaite

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Orpheus in the Marketplace

Jacopo Peri and the Economy of Late Renaissance Florence

By: Tim Carter,Richard A. Goldthwaite

The Florentine musician Jacopo Peri (1561-1633) is known as the composer of the first operas--they include the earliest to survive complete, Euridice (1600), in which Peri sang the role of Orpheus. A large collection of recently discovered account books belonging to him and his family allows for a greater exploration of Peri's professional and personal life. Richard Goldthwaite, an economic historian, and Tim Carter, a musicologist, have done much more, however, than write a biography: their investigation exposes the remarkable value of such financial documents as a primary source for an entire period. This record of Peri's wide-ranging investments and activities in the marketplace enables the first detailed account of the Florentine economy in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and also opens a completely new perspective on one of Europe's principal centers of capitalism. His economic circumstances reflect continuities and transformations in Florentine society, and the strategies for negotiating them, under the Medici grand dukes. At the same time they allow a reevaluation of Peri the singer and composer that elucidates the cultural life of a major artistic center even in changing times, providing a quite different view of what it meant to be a musician in late Renaissance Italy.

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314

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Harvard University Press

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0674727932

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9780674727939

Warrior, Courtier, Singer

Giulio Cesare Brancaccio and the Performance of Identity in the Late Renaissance

By: Dr Richard Wistreich

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Giulio Cesare Brancaccio and the Performance of Identity in the Late Renaissance

By: Dr Richard Wistreich

Giulio Cesare Brancaccio was a Neapolitan nobleman with long practical experience of military life, first in the service of Charles V and later as both soldier and courtier in France and then at the court of Alfonso II d'Este at Ferrara. He was also a virtuoso bass singer whose performances were praised by both Tasso and Guarini - he was even for a while the only male member of the famous Ferrarese court Concerto delle dame, who established a legendary reputation during the 1580s. Richard Wistreich examines Brancaccio's life in detail and from this it becomes possible to consider the mental and social world of a warrior and courtier with musical skills in a broader context. A wide-ranging study of bass singing in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Italy provides a contextual basis from which to consider Brancaccio's reputation as a performer. Wistreich illustrates the use of music in the process of 'self-fashioning' and the role of performance of all kinds in the construction of male noble identity within court culture, including the nature and currency of honour, chivalric virtù and sixteenth-century notions of gender and virility in relation to musical performance. This fascinating examination of Brancaccio's social world significantly expands our understanding of noble culture in both France and Italy during the sixteenth century, and the place of music-making within it.

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364

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409493652

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9781409493655

Lorenzo Ghiberti

Volume II

By: Richard Krautheimer

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Lorenzo Ghiberti

Volume II

By: Richard Krautheimer

Volume 2 of 2. Lorenzo Ghiberti, sculptor and towering figure of the Renaissance, was the creator of the celebrated Bronze Doors of the Baptistery at Florence, a work that occupied him for twenty years and became known (at Michelangelo's suggestion, according to tradition) as the Doors of Paradise. Here Richard Krautheimer takes what Charles S. Seymour, Jr., describes as "a fascinating journey into the mind, career, and inventiveness of one of the indisputably outstanding sculptors of all the Western tradition." This one-volume edition includes an extensive new preface and bibliography by the author. Richard Krautheimer, Professor Emeritus of the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, currently lives in Rome. He is the author of numerous works, including the Pelican Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture and Rome: Profile of a City, 312-1308 (Princeton). Princeton Monographs in Art and Archaeology, 31. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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0691200602

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Byzantine Butrint

Excavations and Surveys 1994-99

By: Richard Hodges,William Bowden,Kosta Lako

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Byzantine Butrint

Excavations and Surveys 1994-99

By: Richard Hodges,William Bowden,Kosta Lako

Maskwork is a new way of looking at the art of masks and mask-making: a unique combination of ethnography, design and practical advice. Jenny Foreman's book for teachers and practitioners of drama, art, design and technology grew out of a research bursary from the UK's National Society for Education in Art and Design. They received her report with great enthusiasm as "one of the very best projects . . . likely to make a valuable and useful contribution" to both specific and cross-discipline school and college courses as well as to adult performing groups. The first part explains the anthropology, nature, use and meaning of masks around the world, from prehistory to modern times. Richly illustrated with colour and black-and-white photographs, this section introduces the ethical implications of free use of masks which have ethnographical connections - an important aspect completely neglected elsewhere. The second part comprises eight theme workshops, including theory, background and instructions for mask-making, supplemented by photographs of assembly and use by groups of people from all age-ranges. Materials are inexpensive and easy to acquire, while line drawings aid step-by-step construction. A bibliography and reference section helps readers go on to even greater understanding and achievements.

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Oxbow Books

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1785708767

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9781785708763

Book's by Richard Dal Porto

The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

Chioggia and the Villages of the Venetian Lagoon

Chioggia and the Villages of the Venetian Lagoon

The Economy of Renaissance Florence

The Economy of Renaissance Florence

The Printing Press

The Printing Press

Orpheus in the Marketplace

Orpheus in the Marketplace

Warrior, Courtier, Singer

Warrior, Courtier, Singer

Lorenzo Ghiberti

Lorenzo Ghiberti

Byzantine Butrint

Byzantine Butrint

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