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Renaissance

Oviedo on Columbus (RC 9)
by J.M. Carrillo Castillo
For Bartolome de Las Casas, Columbus was the agent of God in a benign mission of evangelization but ended his career as a perpetrator of injustice against the indigenous peoples of the Antilles. A contrary image of Columbus as both the initiator of a new ...
Hardback. Price GB £34.00

Las Casas on Columbus: Background and the 2nd and 4th Voyages (RC 7)
edited by N. Griffin
Bartolomé de Las Casas is certainly the most controversial figure in the long and troubled history of Spain's overseas empire. The fierce 'defender and apostle to the Indians', as he become known, Las Casas dedicated most of his adult life to describing ...
Hardback. Price GB £64.00

Testimonies from the Columbian Lawsuits (RC 8)
edited by W. D. Phillips Jr.
The story of the first stage of Europe's expansion inot the Americas usually focuses on the personal actions of Christopher Columbus. Nevertheless, the enterprise of the Indies was a collective endeavour. Between Columbus's first voyage in 1492 and 1504 ...
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Christopher Columbus and his Family: The Genoese and Ligurian Documents (RC 4)
by J.E. Dotson, edited by A. Agosto
Any analysis of the background and youth of Christopher Columbus is necessarily based on the documents gathered in this volume, which includes all the known records relating to Columbus and his family in Liguria. All these documents, covering the century ...
Hardback. Price GB £64.00

Selections from Peter Martyr (RC 5)
by Anghiera, edited by G. Eatough
The first decade, or volume, of Peter Martyr's reports on the New World, published in 1511 as De Orbe Novo, was in fact the first European history of America. For twenty years after Columbus's voyages of discovery, Martyr's letters; in various versions, ...
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Renaissance Artists and Antique Sculpture: A Handbook of Sources. New, revised, and updated edition
by Phyllis Bober and Ruth Rubinstein
This book documents and illustrates the most significant antique works of art known to Renaissance artists. It is for all who wish to have an insight into the fundamental basis of the Renaissance, for those concerned with cultural history, art history, and archaeology. Over 500 illustrations show Greek and Roman statues, reliefs and triumphal arches, together with Renaissance drawings, engravings, bronzes and paintings to demonstrate how and ...
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Giotto and the Arena Chapel: Art, Architecture and Experience
by Laura Jacobus
This book is divided into two parts, the first presenting new evidence and reconstructions of the chapel's design and early history; the second offering new interpretations of Giotto's frescoes. Appendices present original sources, all of which are newly discovered, unpublished or previously published in inaccessible editions. An outline of the early history of the Scrovegni family and the career of the chapel's patron, Enrico Scrovegni, ...
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Rural Communities in Renaissance Tuscany: Religious Identities and Local Loyalties
by Cecilia Hewlett
At the conclusion of the fifteenth century and well into the first half of the sixteenth, Florence underwent radical political and social transformations. The republic, which had nurtured the cultural phenomenon of the Renaissance, was finally overthrown and the Medici returned triumphant as outright rulers of the once-free commune. Throughout this period, the administration of the Florentine territory continued to be one of the single most ...
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The Ghost of Boccaccio: Writings on Famous Women in the Italian Renaissance
by Stephen Kolsky
This major study looks at the heritage and literary transformation of Giovanni Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris in late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth-century Italy. The monograph is the first full-length study of the new elaborations of women's role and potential that were being developed in the north Italian courts in this period. The Ghost of Boccaccio presents a sustained textual analysis of a selection of male-authored texts. ...
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Venetian Painting in the Fifteenth Century
by Otto Pacht, edited by Margareta Vyoral-Tschapka and Michael Pacht
Otto Pacht, one of the most significant art-historians of the 'Vienna School', and well known for his analyses of Early Netherlandish art, turns his attention in this publication to the humanist circle of Early Renaissance painters in Venice, dominated by Jacopo Bellini, his sons Gentile and Giovanni, and also his son-in-law Andrea Mantegna. It was a period of newly awakened interest in the Antique, of studies made directly from nature, and of ...
Paperback. Price GB £50.00