Download or read book The Florentine Mourners written by George Herman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 1999-12 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Renaissance mystery featuring Leonardo da Vinci and his companion, Niccolo da Pavia, as they join together in Florence to solve the mystery of two assassinations and widespread vandalisms of artworks involving the Borgias and the exiled Medici family. (Third of a series)
Download or read book Death and Ritual in Renaissance Florence written by Sharon T. Strocchia and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what ways did the rituals associated with death in Renaissance Florence serve as an indicator of how Florentine society saw itself? In Death and Ritual in Renaissance Florence, Sharon Strocchia shows how these death rites - especially civic funerals - reflected Florence's quick rise to commercial wealth in the fourteenth century and steady progression toward displays of princely power in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Strocchia begins by examining the basic components of civic funerary rites and their symbolic meaning. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, she then traces the changes and continuities of these rites throughout the Renaissance. She shows how the rise of funeral pomp in the late fourteenth century as linked to social mobility, the redistribution of wealth, corporate politics, and the psychology of the post-plague decades. She analyses the impact of "elitism, statism, and civism" on civic and family rites after 1400 and charts the social effects of rising assumption trends. And she focuses on the complex cycles of change stemming from the establishment and rejection Medici control, which by entrenching patrician domination helped pave the way for the Medici principate. "Rather than simply recasting the traditional history of the city", Strocchia writes, "the history of death rites shows us the sheer intricacy of how ritual and society defined each other. These episodes point us toward culture in action: the tangled, dense, and decidedly unstable relations binding family and state, gender and politics, word and image".
Download or read book Death s Summer Coat written by Brandy Schillace and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death is something we all confront—it touches our families, our homes, our hearts. And yet we have grown used to denying its existence, treating it as an enemy to be beaten back with medical advances.We are living at a unique point in human history. People are living longer than ever, yet the longer we live, the more taboo and alien our mortality becomes. Yet we, and our loved ones, still remain mortal. People today still struggle with this fact, as we have done throughout our entire history. What led us to this point? What drove us to sanitize death and make it foreign and unfamiliar?Schillace shows how talking about death, and the rituals associated with it, can help provide answers. It also brings us closer together—conversation and community are just as important for living as for dying. Some of the stories are strikingly unfamiliar; others are far more familiar than you might suppose. But all reveal much about the present—and about ourselves.
Download or read book A Time of Mourning written by Christobel Kent and published by Atlantic Books Ltd. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Time of Mourning introduces Sandro Cellini, ex-cop and private detective: Florence's answer to Donna Leon's Guido Brunetti When a young English girl goes missing from among Florence's hard-drinking, high-living community of foreign art students, ex-policeman, good husband and newly-minted private detective Sandro Cellini is at first unwilling to see any connection with his investigation of the suicide of an elderly Jewish architect. But as he investigates the circumstances of Claudio Gentileschi's death more closely, the connections between the cases multiply, and Sandro's first case turns out to be darker and more complex than he could have imagined...
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Download or read book Notes by the Way written by John Collins Francis and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains predominantly biographical and critical miscellany from "Notes and queries", including "History of 'Notes and queries'", and chapters on the Cowper centenary, Civil list pensions, the Bevis Marks bicentenary, and Longfellow.
Download or read book Funeral Customs written by Bertram S. Puckle and published by London : T.W. Laurie, Limited. This book was released on 1926 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Chambers s Edinburgh journal conducted by W Chambers Continued as Chambers s Journal of popular literature science and arts written by Chambers's journal and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A New History of Painting in Italy The Florentine Umbrian and Sienese schools of the xv century written by Joseph Archer Crowe and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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