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• Publisher : CUA Press
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• Release Date : 20 May 2024

Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (1405-1464, elected Pope Pius II in 1458) was an important and enigmatic figure of the Renaissance as well as one of the most prolific writers and gifted stylists

• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
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• Release Date : 30 August 2022

This collection of essays situates George Gascoigne in context as the pre-eminent writer of the early part of Queen Elizabeth’s reign. His ceaseless experimentation was hugely influential on those

• Publisher : University of Toronto Press
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• Release Date : 05 October 2015

Written in the mid-fifteenth century, Pope Pius II’s Commentaries are the only known autobiography of a reigning pontiff and a fundamental text in the history of Renaissance humanism. In

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 14 July 2015

Essays in Renaissance Thought and Letters honors John Monfasani with sixteen contributions ranging from Antiquity to Enlightenment, from learned notes to editiones principes, from intellectual to socio-economic history. An introduction

• Publisher : University of Toronto Press
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• Release Date : 01 January 2011

"Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation provides the most complete record possible of texts from the early periods that have been translated into English, and published between 1929 and 2008. It lists

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 12 July 2003

This book contains eleven essays on Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (1405-1464), humanist, author, courtier, inveterate traveller, conciliarist and then papalist, priest, bishop and finally pope under the name Pius II (1458-1464),

• Publisher : CUA Press
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• Release Date : 01 November 2013

This popular text circulated widely in manuscript form and was printed in several editions between the late 15th and the early 18th centuries, in Latin, German, and Italian. The present

• Publisher : CUA Press
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• Release Date : 01 December 2014

This is a lively popular history that introduces a new hypothesis about the impetus behind the cultural change in Renaissance Italy. Plague and Pleasure uses the life and times of

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 01 April 2016

The Bohemian preacher and religious reformer Jan Hus has been celebrated as a de facto saint since being burned at the stake as a heretic in 1415. Patron Saint and Prophet

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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• Release Date : 04 February 2022

The documents in this collection trace the course of the Renaissance in Italy and northern Europe, describing the emergence of a vibrant and varied intellectual and artistic culture in various