Download or read book The History of Italy written by Francesco Guicciardini and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1537 Francesco Guicciardini, adviser and confidant to three popes, governor of several central Italian states, ambassador, administrator, military captain--and persona non grata with the ruling Medici after the siege of Florence--retired to his villa to write a history of his times. His Storia d'Italia became the classic history of Italy--both a brilliant portrayal of the Renaissance and a penetrating vision into the tragedy and comedy of human history in general. Sidney Alexander's readable translation and abridgment of Guicciardini's four-volume work earned the prestigious 1970 P.E.N. Club translation award. His perceptive introduction and notes add much to the understanding of Guicciardini's masterpiece.
Download or read book Time History and Political Thought written by John Robertson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-22 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the multiple ways in which different conceptions of time and history have been used to understand politics since late antiquity, showing that no conception of politics has dispensed altogether with time, and many have explicitly sought legitimacy in association with forms of history.
Download or read book The First and Second Italian Wars 1494 1504 written by Julian Romane and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2020-08-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First and Second Italian Wars describes the course of military operations and political machinations in Italy from 1494 to 1504. The narrative begins with the French conquest of much of Italy. But the French hold collapsed. The second French invasion gained Northern Italy. This time, the French allied with the Pope’s son, Cesare Borgia. Cesare managed to double deal too many people; his efforts ended in disaster. The French agreement with the Spanish allowed them to retake Naples only to be defeated at the Garigliano by the famous general, Gonzalo de Cordoba. These wars were not just another series of medieval fights. These battles were different from what had gone before: the French utilized a new method of artillery transport; the Spanish commander formulated a new system of military unit organization, and Cesare Borgia sought different systems of raising troops and forming states. And all the powers managed to spend vast amounts of money the likes of which no one had imagined before. This was the emergence of the so-called Military Revolution.
Download or read book The history of France from the accession of Henry the third to the death of Louis the fourteenth Preceded by A view of the civil military and political state of Europe between the middle and the close of the sixteenth century From the accession of Henry the third to the death of Henry the fourth written by sir Nathaniel William Wraxall (1st bart.) and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Literature Travel and Colonial Writing in the English Renaissance 1545 1625 written by Andrew Hadfield and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1998-12-17 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was the purpose of representing foreign lands for writers in the English Renaissance? This innovative and wide-ranging study argues that writers often used their works as vehicles to reflect on the state of contemporary English politics, particularly their own lack of representation in public institutions. Sometimes such analyses took the form of displaced allegories, whereby writers contrasted the advantages enjoyed, or disadvantages suffered, by foreign subjects with the political conditions of Tudor and Stuart England. Elsewhere, more often in explicitly colonial writings, authors meditated on the problems of government when faced with the possibly violent creation of a new society. If Venice was commonly held up as a beacon of republican liberty which England would do well to imitate, the fear of tyrannical Catholic Spain was ever present - inspiring and haunting much of the colonial literature from 1580 onwards. This stimulating book examines fictional and non-fictional writings, illustrating both the close connections between the two made by early modern readers and the problems involved in the usual assumption that we can make sense of the past with the categories available to us. Hadfield explores in his work representations of Europe, the Americas, Africa, and the Far East, selecting pertinent examples rather than attempting to embrace a total coverage. He also offers fresh readings of Shakespeare, Marlowe, More, Lyly, Hakluyt, Harriot, Nashe, and others.
Download or read book The History of France from the Accession of Henry the Third in 1574 to the Death of Henry the Fourth in 1610 written by Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Entire Private Library Belonging to a Well Known Boston Collector written by C.F. Libbie & Co and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Entire Private Library Belonging to a Well Known Boston Collector written by David Hunt and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of France from the Accession of Henry the Third in 1574 to the Death of Henry the Fourth in 1610 Preceded by a View of the State of Europe Between the Middle and the Close of the Sixteenth Century and Followed by a View of the State of Europe at the Accession of Louis the Thirteenth The Second Edition written by Sir Nathaniel William WRAXALL and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shakespeare and Renaissance Politics written by Andrew Hadfield and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare, like many of his contemporaries, was concerned with the question of the succession and the legitimacy of the monarch. From the early plays through the histories to Hamlet, Shakespeare's work is haunted by the problem of political legitimacy.
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Download or read book Hand book to the Popular Poetical and Dramatic Literature of Great Britain written by William Carew Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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