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9) The deadly sisterhood: a story of women, power, and intrigue in the Italian Renaissance, 1427-1527
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 403 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations, geneological tables, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the famous and infamous women of the late Italian Renaissance, tied together by political marriages and bloodlines, and reassesses the reputations of such celebrated figures as Isabella d'Este and Lucrezia Borgia.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books, Ltd
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First Pegasus books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 310 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Spanning some of the most vibrant and fascinating eras in European history, Wilson reveals a society filled with an ardent desire for knowledge and astounding discoveries and the fantastic discoveries that flowered from it. But often this knowledge was based on folk religions with a pagan past. Even the Catholic Church had it's own "magical" traditions, and astrologists believed human affairs were controlled by the heavenly bodies. Wilson shows how...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"Leonardo da Vinci was a brilliant artist, scientist, engineer, mathematician, architect, inventor, writer, and even musician--the archetypal Renaissance man. But he was also, Fritjof Capra argues, a profoundly modern man. Not only did Leonardo invent the empirical scientific method over a century before Galileo and Francis Bacon, but Capra's decade-long study of Leonardo's fabled notebooks reveal him as a systems thinker centuries before the term...
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