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Book Venice and the Digressive Invention of the Modern

Download or read book Venice and the Digressive Invention of the Modern written by Jennifer Sue Scappettone and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of John Ruskin  The stones of Venice  the sea stories

Download or read book The Works of John Ruskin The stones of Venice the sea stories written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1-35, works. Volume 36-37, letters. Volume 38 provides an extensive bibliography of Ruskin's writings and a catalogue of his drawings, with corrections to earlier volumes in George Allen's Library Edition of the Works of John Ruskin. Volume 39, general index.

Book Venice

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  • Author : Charles Yriarte
  • Publisher : London : G. Bell
  • Release : 1880
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book Venice written by Charles Yriarte and published by London : G. Bell. This book was released on 1880 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book News on the Rialto

Download or read book News on the Rialto written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Venice    Its History  Art  Industries and Modern Life

Download or read book Venice Its History Art Industries and Modern Life written by Charles Yriarte and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beautifully illustrated volume, Charles Yriarte and F.J. Sitwell offer a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the city of Venice, from its early history as a trading power to its status as a vibrant center of culture and commerce in the modern era. With its detailed descriptions of historic sites, lively accounts of local customs and traditions, and stunning visual imagery, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in this iconic city. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Nature in the New World

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  • Author : Antonello Gerbi
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
  • Release : 2010-06-20
  • ISBN : 0822973812
  • Pages : 481 pages

Download or read book Nature in the New World written by Antonello Gerbi and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-06-20 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated by Jeremy Moyle In Nature in the New World (translated into English in 1985), Antonello Gerbi examines the fascinating reports of the first Europeans to see the Americas. These accounts provided the basis for the images of strange and new flora, fauna, and human creatures that filled European imaginations.Initial chapters are devoted to the writings of Columbus, Vespucci, Cortes, Verrazzano, and others. The second portion of the book concerns the Historia general y natural de las Indias of Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo, a work commissioned by Charles V of Spain in 1532 but not published in its entirety until the 1850s. Antonello Gerbi contends that Oviedo, a Spanish administrator who lived in Santo Domingo, has been unjustly neglected as a historian. Gerbi shows that Oviedo was a major authority on the culture, history, and conquest of the New World.

Book The Works of John Ruskin

Download or read book The Works of John Ruskin written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Double Entry  How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance

Download or read book Double Entry How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance written by Jane Gleeson-White and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Lively history. . . . Show[s] double entry’s role in the creation of the accounting profession, and even of capitalism itself.”—The New Yorker Filled with colorful characters and history, Double Entry takes us from the ancient origins of accounting in Mesopotamia to the frontiers of modern finance. At the heart of the story is double-entry bookkeeping: the first system that allowed merchants to actually measure the worth of their businesses. Luca Pacioli—monk, mathematician, alchemist, and friend of Leonardo da Vinci—incorporated Arabic mathematics to formulate a system that could work across all trades and nations. As Jane Gleeson-White reveals, double-entry accounting was nothing short of revolutionary: it fueled the Renaissance, enabled capitalism to flourish, and created the global economy. John Maynard Keynes would use it to calculate GDP, the measure of a nation’s wealth. Yet double-entry accounting has had its failures. With the costs of sudden corporate collapses such as Enron and Lehman Brothers, and its disregard of environmental and human costs, the time may have come to re-create it for the future.

Book The Venetian Origins of the Commedia dell Arte

Download or read book The Venetian Origins of the Commedia dell Arte written by Peter Jordan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant and original new study of a key dramatic form Author is both an historian and practitioner of the craft There are few up-to-date case studies of Commedia available in English

Book History of Venice  Books I IV

Download or read book History of Venice Books I IV written by Pietro Bembo and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bembo (1470-1547), a Venetian nobleman, later a Roman Catholic cardinal, was the most celebrated Latin stylist of his day and was widely admired for his writings in Italian. The History of Venice was published posthumously, in Latin and in his own Italian version. This edition makes it available for the first time in English translation.

Book A History of Venice

Download or read book A History of Venice written by Thomas F. Madden and published by . This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Venice: Queen of the Seas

Book Venice

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  • Author : Charles [Émile] 1832-1898 Yriarte
  • Publisher : Wentworth Press
  • Release : 2016-08-27
  • ISBN : 9781371692834
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Venice written by Charles [Émile] 1832-1898 Yriarte and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Women and Men in Early Modern Venice

Download or read book Women and Men in Early Modern Venice written by Satya Brata Datta and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Women and Men in Early Modern Venice, Satya Datta, from a theoretically informed perspective, focuses on two inter-related topics: reassessing the empiricist tradition of Venetian historiography, and highlighting the issue of human experience by investigating the actual activities of common women and men and their multiple experience in shaping their own history under given, but changeable, societal conditions. The author makes explicit by interpretation just how the multiple experiences of common Venetians in the early modern period were shaped and articulated. For analytical clarity and convenience, the fundamental theme is split into four distinct sub-themes: the social experiences of the artisan community, the cultural experiences of art-related artisans, the feminist experiences of intellectual women, and the working experiences of ordinary women.

Book Venice

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  • Author : Thomas F. Madden
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9781624903922
  • Pages : 446 pages

Download or read book Venice written by Thomas F. Madden and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overview: An extraordinary chronicle of Venice, its people, and its grandeur. Thomas Madden's majestic, sprawling history of Venice is the first full portrait of the city in English in almost thirty years. Using long-buried archival material and a wealth of newly translated documents, Madden weaves a spellbinding story of a place and its people, tracing an arc from the city's humble origins as a lagoon refuge to its apex as a vast maritime empire and Renaissance epicenter to its rebirth as a modern tourist hub. Madden explores all aspects of Venice's breathtaking achievements: the construction of its unparalleled navy, its role as an economic powerhouse and birthplace of capitalism, its popularization of opera, the stunning architecture of its watery environs, and more. He sets these in the context of the rise and fall of the Byzantine Empire, the endless waves of Crusades to the Holy Land, and the awesome power of Turkish sultans. And perhaps most critically, Madden corrects the stereotype of Shakespeare's money-lending Shylock that has distorted the Venetian character, uncovering instead a much more complex and fascinating story, peopled by men and women whose ingenuity and deep faith profoundly altered the course of civilization.

Book Dissertation Abstracts International

Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: