RONI - Renaissance 1

Massimo poeta del Cinquecento, tra i maggiori della letteratura italiana, Ludovico Ariosto (Reggio Emilia 1474-Ferrara 1533) deve la sua fama soprattutto al capolavoro per cui ancora oggi è letto e ……続きを見る

Here, from New York Times bestselling historian Vincent Cronin, is the extraordinary story of Italy - from the birth of the Roman Empire to the rise of the city-states through the Renaissance and th……続きを見る

Mercante, uomo politico e ambasciatore cui la Repubblica di Firenze affidò difficili missioni presso i re di Francia e l’imperatore, Bonaccorso Pitti (1354-1432) ha a lungo affascinato studiosi sia ……続きを見る

Matteo Ricci, an early recruit of the Jesuit order, was sent to China as a missionary in 1582. If he approached the Emperor with a Bible in one hand, in the other he carried much of the accumulated ……続きを見る

Florence in the fifteenth century was the undisputed centre of the Italian Renaissance. Its legacy is apparent today in every aspect of human endeavour. Our art and science, our learning and literat……続きを見る

Following the collapse of Medici rule in fifteenth-century Florence, the centre of Renaissance activity moved first to Rome and finally to Venice. In the Rome of Julius II and Leo X which Michelange……続きを見る

Now available as an ebook. Praise for The Flowering of The Renaissance: ‘An evocative picture of Rome at the turn of the sixteenth century … the account of Michelangelo is particularly memorable. At……続きを見る

The groundbreaking biography of one of the most progressive, influential and entertaining women of the seventeenth century, Christina Alexandra, Queen of Sweden. In 1654, to the astonishment and dis……続きを見る