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Taylor & Francis Miltons Italy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Trial of Giordano Bruno
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Economy of Renaissance Italy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Visualizing Venice
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Unions and Divisions
Book SynopsisProviding a comprehensive and engaging account of personal unions, composite monarchies and multiple rule in premodern Europe: Unions and Divisions. New Forms of Rule in Medieval and Renaissance Europe uses a comparative approach to examine the phenomena of the medieval and renaissance unions in a pan-European overview.In the later Middle Ages, genealogical coincidences led to caesuras in various dynastic successions. Solutions to these were found, above all, in new constellations which saw one political entity becoming co-managed by the ruler of another in the form of a personal union. In the premodern period, such solutions were characterised by two factors in particular: on the one hand, the entry of two countries into a union did not constitute a military annexation even though claims to the throne were all too often imposed by force; on the other hand, the new unitarian constellation retained, at least de jure, the independence of its respectTable of ContentsPreface PART I: CONCEPTUAL AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS 1. Introduction: Medieval and Renaissance Personal Unions – Main Debates, New Approaches 2. Unions as a Structural Element: Preconditions, Intentions, and Realisations 3. Dynasties and Dynastic Rule between Elite Reproduction and State Building in Europe, 1300–1600 PART II: BETWEEN COERCION AND POLITICAL REASON 4. Dynastic Unions and the Development of Solid and Widespread Christian Polities in Iberia, 1100–1300 5. Angevin Empire: Between Dynastic Construct and Imperial Government 6. On the Genesis of the Polish-Lithuanian Union 7. For the Rescue of the Eastern Policy? The Union of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania with the King-dom of Poland and Relations with their Eastern Neighbours 8. Bishop, Administrator, Guardian: Albert of Hoya († 1473) and His Reign in Minden, Osnabrück and Hoya PART III: BETWEEN ASPIRATION AND REALITY 9. The Title rex Galiciae between Ambitions and Reality 10. The Union between Hungary and Croatia: Facts and Legends 11. The Lusatias in Personal Union with Brandenburg and Bohemia 12. The Foreign Policy of the Last Přemyslids: A First Attempt at Unifying Central Europe? 13. How Did the Grand Masters of the Teutonic Order Interpret their Dependence on the Polish Crown (1466–1497)? 14. An Autonomous Dependency? The Unstable Relationship between the Elites in Royal Prussia and the Polish Crown 1466–1569 15. Feoffment as a Tool in the Safeguarding of Power? Dithmarschen between Holsatian and Archi-episcopal Power Claims (1500–1559) PART IV: BETWEEN COINCIDENCE AND INTENTION 16. Wenceslaus II Přemyslid and Louis I of Hungary: Two Personal Unions in the History of the Polish Kingdom in the Fourteenth Century 17. Mary and Maximilian I – Burgundy and Habsburg: Rise of an Empire 18. Albert II of Habsburg’s Composite Monarchy and its Significance for Central Europe 19. The Rulers of Poland-Lithuania and the Issue of Church Union from the Late Fourteenth to Early Sixteenth Centuries 20. The Unions between Sleswick, Holsatia and Denmark in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and their Nordic Precursors PART V: BETWEEN DYNASTIC EXTENSION AND OVERSTRETCHING 21. The Union Wars within the Nordic Kalmar Union, 1448–1523 22. The Policies for and from the Dynastic Union: The Crowns of Castile and Aragon in the Fifteenth Century 23. Corona regni Bohemiae: An Idea of the Luxemburgers and Their Successors for the Integration of Central Europe 24. Towards ‘the Danube Monarchy’? The Political Legacy of Emperor Sigismund and its Executors in the Fifteenth Century 25. Jagiellonian Attempts at Creating a Dynastic Great Power between the Baltic and the Black Seas and the Adriatic around 1500
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Taylor & Francis Ltd French Renaissance Monarchy
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1984, Professor Knecht''s study quickly established itself as the best short account of the period. The reigns of Francis I and Henry II, spanning the first half of the sixteenth century, are one of the most colourful and formative periods of French history. In addition to examining the nature and effectiveness of their reigns, Professor Knecht also examines their foreign policies which brought them into conflict with other major powers. For this new edition the author has added a new chapter on patronage and the arts.Table of ContentsPart One: The Background. Part Two: Analysis. Part Three: Assessment. Part Four: Documents.
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Cambridge University Press Machiavellis Effectual Truth
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Cambridge University Press Staging Female Characters in Shakespeares English History Plays
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Cambridge University Press Music and the Making of Medieval Venice
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Lady Brewer of London
Book SynopsisAn unforgettable historical tale set in fifteenth-century England of a brilliant woman’s defiance, courage, and ingenuity—from the author of The Locksmith’s Daughter and The Chocolate Maker’s Wife.Trade Review“Richly atmospheric, romantic, and chock-full of period details, this fast-paced tale and its many plot twists and turns are likely to keep historical fiction fans riveted.” — Booklist “The daughter of a merchant flouts 15th-century English convention to start a brewery in Brooks’s illuminating epic (after The Chocolate Maker’s Wife). Brooks’s attention to historical detail instills the novel with authenticity by including many historical figures and events, while Anneke’s lively voice keeps a strong grip on the reader as she works to overcome societal prohibitions against women in business and find happiness and contentment. Brooks’s immersive page-turner does not disappoint.” — Publishers Weekly
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Stolen Lady
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Mulholland Books Tombland
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Alfred A. Knopf The Marriage Portrait
Book SynopsisWOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION FINALIST • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The author of award-winning Hamnet brings the world of Renaissance Italy to jewel-bright life in this unforgettable fictional portrait of the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici as she makes her way in a troubled court.“I could not stop reading this incredible true story.” —Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club Pick)O’Farrell pulls out little threads of historical detail to weave this story of a precocious girl sensitive to the contradictions of her station...You may know the history, and you may think you know what’s coming, but don’t be so sure. —The Washington PostFlorence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is comfortable with her obscure place in the palazzo: free to wonder at its treasures, observ
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Random House USA Inc The Last White Rose
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Diversified Publishing The Marriage Portrait
Book SynopsisWOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION FINALIST • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The author of award-winning Hamnet brings the world of Renaissance Italy to jewel-bright life in this unforgettable fictional portrait of the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici as she makes her way in a troubled court.“I could not stop reading this incredible true story.” —Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club Pick)O’Farrell pulls out little threads of historical detail to weave this story of a precocious girl sensitive to the contradictions of her station...You may know the history, and you may think you know what’s coming, but don’t be so sure. —The Washington PostFlorence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is comfortable with her obscure place in the palazzo: free to wonder at its treasures, observ
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Johns Hopkins University Press Power and Imagination
Book SynopsisTrade Review[A] brilliant study... of the extraordinary explosion of expression in art and scholarship which made Italy the model for Europe. Los Angeles TimesTable of ContentsPreface to The Johns Hopkins EditionPrefaceAcknowledgementsPart I: The Ascent of CommunesChapter 1. BackgroundChapter 2. Communes EmergePart II: The Early Commune and its NobilityChapter 3. Communes and EmpireChapter 4. Consular Institutions Chapter 5. The NobilityPart III: The Commune Around 1200Chapter 6. Urban Crisis and Neighborhood ContextChapter 7. Podestaral GovernmentPart IV: Popolo and Popular CommuneChapter 8. The Divisive IssuesChapter 9. Popular OrganizationChapter 10. Discipline and TakeoverChapter 11. The Changing PopoloPart V: The End of the Popular CommuneChapter 12. AchievementChapter 13. FailurePart VI: The Course of Urban ValuesChapter 14. Urban Space and PersonalityChapter 15. Florins: The Best of KinChapter 16. Experience and Religious Feeling: An Anonymous MoralistPart VII: Despotism: SignoriesChapter 17. The Seizures of PowerChapter 18. Signorial GovernmentPart VIII: The Course of Political FeelingChapter 19. The Matrix: Local FeelingChapter 20. The Example of Brunetto LatiniChapter 21. The Vanguard of FeelingPart IX: Oligarchy: Renaissance RepublicsChapter 22. The Republican EnvironmentChapter 23. The Lessons of the Ambrosian RepublicChapter 24. The Workings of OligarchyPart X: Economic Trends and AttitudesChapter 25. The Land Chapter 26. Population and TradeChapter 27. Public FinanceChapter 28. A Unity of AttitudesPart XI: Humanism: A Program for Ruling ClassesChapter 29. The ProgramChapter 30. The Origins of HumanismChapter 31. The Problem of ObjectivityChapter 32. Class and Group ConscienceChapter 33. Ideological ThemesPart XII: The Princely CourtsChapter 34. PerimetersChapter 35. The Courtly EstablishmentChapter 36. A Paradise for StructuralistsPart XIII: Art: An Alliance with PowerChapter 37. Patronage and PropagandaChapter 38. Social Positions and MobilityChapter 39. Social Identity into Artistic StyleChapter 40. Manner and StyleChapter 41. Space Real and ImaginaryPart XIV: Invasion: City-States in Lighting and TwilightChapter 42. The Main Line of EventsChapter 43. The Main Line of FailurePart XV: The High Renaissance: A Divided ConsciousnessChapter 44. The Key Experience: ContradictionChapter 45. Patronage in DangerChapter 46. Religion and LeadershipChapter 47. Political Thinking: Man Against UnreasonChapter 48. The Language QuestionChapter 49. The Lure of UtopiaPart XVI: The End of the RenaissanceNotesBibliographySupplementary BibliographyIndex
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New Directions Publishing Corporation Sublunar
Book SynopsisIn the sixteenth century, on the island of Uranienborg, the pioneering Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe is undertaking an elaborate study of the night skyTrade Review"Original, piercing, and richly exhilarating. Voetmann’s text is a sharp reminder of how powerfully and succinctly well-chosen words can create a world, render experiences, and express thoughts—in short, transport us, to places and in ways we could not have imagined." -- Claire Messud - Harper's"Reading Voetmann’s books makes me feel so alive. His voice is like no other, his hold on his material masterful." -- Olga Ravn"Arresting and memorable." -- Kirkus Reviews"Voetmann’s saturnine imagery touches both ends of the optic nerve, intermingling what is seen with what is known… Marvelous." -- Trevor Quirk - The Baffler"Voetmann seems to work from the ground up. Although Awake and Sublunar might be called novels of ideas, Voetmann's intellectual concerns are not forcefully imposed upon fictional dramas arbitrarily designed to illustrate them, but rather arise from particulars that are irreducible. Each page of the books contains a richness of detail and a depth of attention that has all but vanished from the contemporary novel—or, for that matter, any other mass-produced object. The novels themselves—each scarcely more than a hundred pages— are miniatures that appear to have been less written than chiseled. Images glow in stark relief against the somber backdrops and recur with slight variations, as though guided by a Fibonacci sequence. Amid the guts and gore, there are moments of quiet splendour." -- Meghan O’Gieblyn - The New York Review of Books
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Random House USA Inc Orlando
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Random House USA Inc Jane Seymour the Haunted Queen
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Random House USA Inc Katharine Parr The Sixth Wife
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Johns Hopkins University Press Renegade Women Gender Identity and Boundaries in
Book SynopsisScholars of the period will find this to be a richly informative and thoroughly engrossing read.Trade Review"A gem. Beautifully written, creatively crafted, and thoroughly researched, this is an erudite book, written with verve. It brings to life the richness and vitality of Mediterranean societies in early modern times." (Judith C. Brown, author of Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy)"Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Fatima Hatun née Beatrice Michiel2. Elena Civalelli / Suor Deodata and Mihale / Catterina Šatorovic3. Maria Gozzadini and Her Daughters—Aissè, Eminè, CatigèConclusionGeographic EquivalentsAbbreviationsNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Communities of Learned Experience
Book SynopsisThe collections she has selected include essays on general medical topics addressed to colleagues or disciples, some advice for individual patients (usually written at the request of the patient's doctor), and a strong dose of controversy.Trade ReviewSiraisi deftly guides the reader with engaging and descriptive prose toward her modest theses... It is a welcome introduction to the world of medical epistles in the Renaissance. -- Joel A. Klein Early Science and Medicine This book goes a step further in the current critical reassessment of the minor genres of early modern medical literature, traditionally viewed as secondary sources. Mastering Renaissance history and historiography, Siraisi shows how they can be used to access the world of sixteenth-century medical practitioners avoiding artificial distinctions between the social and intellectual motives underpinning their multifold activities. -- Maria Pia Donato American Historical Review These studies will be useful to anyone exploring the development of espistolae midicinales. Siraisi also offers valuable evidence of the establishment of an eraly medical Republic of Letters. -- Niall Hodson Centaurus Communities of Learned Experience puts the theme of networks center stage, making useful connections to current research on communities of knowledge and republics of letters both humanistic and scientific even as it contributes more particularly to the history of medicine... In 87 pages, [Siraisi] offers a distillation of the encyclopedic learning, rigorously forensic analysis, elegant argumentation, and wry humor that are the hallmarks of her career... This book is an expert introduction to the world of early modern medical inquiry... For its wealth of information and important call for more attention to medical epistles, Communities of Learned Experience takes a more than worthy place in Siraisi's oeuvre and should occupy an important space in the history of science section of early modernist's collections. -- Sarah Gwenyth Ross Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science [Communities of Learned Experience] reflects Siraisi's routinely thorough research and engaging prose, and it would be difficult to argue that the book does not accomplish what it sets out to do. -- Fred Gibbs British Journal for the History of Science What trajectory can be charted through physicians' letters? Siraisi's elegant and economical book has give her readers a useful and pleasurable roadmap that helps to explain how learned physicians indeed created a world of their own making in print during the age of Vesalius. -- Paul Findlen Bulletin of the History of Medicine Siraisi's work on epistolary medicine will be of interest not only to those studying Renaissance medicine, but will also provide a useful backdrop to those studying the topic in the early modern period. It will appeal to historians of the Republic of Letters and the humanist movement who may not have given consideration to the correspondence of physicians of the period. -- Robert Weston ParergonTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Contexts and Communication2. The Court Physician Johann Lange and His Epistolae Medicinales3. The Medical Networks of Orazio AugenioConclusionNotesIndex
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Early Modern Europe
Book SynopsisThrough the exploration of nine common myths about the history and culture of early modern Europe, roughly 13501700, this book uses common assumptions to introduce newcomers to the period and its key figures, developments, and events.Many myths about early modern Europe originated in the 19th and 20th centuries and continue to appear today across popular media. In recent years, such popular documentaries and television shows as Game of Thrones have tended to reinforce what we think we know about the world during the early modern period.Early modern Europe birthed the modern worldjust not in the way we think it did. This installment in the Facts and Fictions series utilizes primary sources to interrogate popular beliefs about early modern Europe and reveal the true story behind such movements and events as the Scientific Revolution, the Crusades, and the European witch hunts. Focusing on how perceptions of these events have shifted and evolved through historyTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Italian Renaissance Ended the Dark Ages and Ushered in the Modern World 2. Christopher Columbus Proved that the Earth Was Round 3. Early Modern Women Were Uneducated and Uninfluential 4. Humanists Introduced Secularism to Early Modern Europe 5. The Pope Was an All-Powerful Ruler in Early Modern Europe 6. The Moral Failures of the Catholic Church Made the Reformation Inevitable 7. Torture and Superstition Drove the Witch Hunts 8. A Few Geniuses Sparked the Scientific Revolution 9. The Crusades Ended in the Middle Ages Bibliography Index
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Amberley Publishing Anne Boleyn
Book SynopsisTHE biography of the most alluring, important and enigmatic of Henry VIII's six wives - Anne Boleyn.
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Weiser Books The Pagan Dream of the Renaissance
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The New York Review of Books, Inc The Merchant of Prato: Francesco di Marco Datini,
Book SynopsisA warm, intimate, and engrossing biography of Francesco di Marco Datini, who built a powerful mercantile network in fourteenth-century Tuscany, and a peerless evocation of the sensations, personalities, and everyday struggles of Italian life more than half a millennium in the past.“For God and Profit” is how the medieval merchant Francesco di Marco Datini headed a notebook in which he kept track of his business dealings, and these were certainly his guiding lights. Born in the 1330s in the Tuscan town of Prato, the son of a poor taverner, Datini set out at the age of fifteen for Avignon, where, over the course of the next thirty-five years, he made a fortune trading in arms, armor, artworks, wool, saffron, leather, silk, and much more. Returning home, he expanded his operations, setting up offices all across the Mediterranean, which he oversaw through an unceasing flow of correspondence. When he died, Datini asked that all his papers be preserved in his house, and in 1870 they were found, a little worm-eaten and mouse-nibbled but largely intact, in a sack under the stairs. They are one of the great records not only of medieval life but of the emergence of the modern commercial world.Drawing on this rich archive, Iris Origo offers a wonderfully vivid account of Datini’s public and private worlds. The Merchant of Prato is a masterpiece of modern narrative history.
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Pindar Press Studies of Petrarch and His Influence
Book SynopsisProfessor Joseph Trapp has been Director of the Warburg Institute, and is an authority on Renaissance humanism and the classical tradition. The present volume brings "together twenty-one of Professor Trapp's more recent papers on the illuminated manuscripts of Petrarch, and his lasting "influence. The fifteenth- and sixteenth-century movement which led to a European revaluation of social, political, ethical, literary, artistic and intellectual experience and which we know as the Renaissance was given its decisive early impetus from Italy in the fourteenth by Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374). Petrarch is present, sometimes visibly, sometimes all but invisibly, within all the manifestations of the Renaissance imagination covered by these essays. His presence is most obvious in the first division of this book, Petrarch Illustrated, where a comprehensive survey and a number of specialized studies bring up to date and in other ways augment the great work of the prince d'Essling and Eugène Muntz, published in 1902 and now in need of revision in many respects. In the second section, Petrarch is present by reputation and implication, and through the homage paid to him, directly in pilgrimage to and adornment of places where he lived and the search for personal mementos, or indirectly in the search by generations succeeding him for the authentic image of the classical authors whom he studied, imitated, revered and loved as friends, or in the permeation into Northern Europe of the study of the classics which he saw as the guide to letters and to life and its modification by humanists and Biblical scholars. Erasmus, Thomas More and William Tyndale, widely different in both their Christian faith and their views of the Biblical text in Latin, Greek or English, without consciously being aware of it, owed their preoccupation with the texts ultimately to the example of Petrarch and his Italian successors, particularly the schoolmaster Guarino of Verona and the great philologists Lorenzo Valla and Angelo Poliziano.Table of ContentsPreface Petrarch Illustrated: The Iconography of Petrarch in the Age of Humanism Illustrated Manuscripts of Petrarch's De remediis Petrarch's Triumph of Death in Tapestry Illustrations of Petrarch's Trionfi from Manuscript to Print and from Print to Manuscript The Illustration of Petrarch's Secretum The Illustration of Petrarch's Letters Petrarch's Long Legacy: Europe: The Cult of Petrarch: 1. Petrarch's Inkstand and his Cat; 2. Homage to Petrarch as Humanist Saint The Image of Livy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance Portraits of Ovid in the Middle Ages and Renaissance Archimedes' Tomb and the Artists; England: The Humanist Book in Italy and England in the Fifteenth and early Sixteenth Centuries (unpublished) From Guarino of Verona to John Colet Erasmus and his English Friends The Miller's Tale Desiderius Erasmus, William Grocyn and the ps-Dionysius: a Re-evaluation The Fall of the Chancellor Midwinter Thomas More's Debellation of Salem and Bizance The Greatness of William Tyndale The Likeness of William Tyndale Additional Notes Index
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Les Belles Lettres Le Sens Reel de Seigneur Du Ciel
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Les Belles Lettres de Re Anatomica Libri XV: Anatomia
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Les Belles Lettres Petrarque, Lettres Familieres. Tome II: Livres
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Les Belles Lettres Petrarque, Oeuvres: I.: La Correspondance.
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Les Belles Lettres Petrarque, Lettres de la Vieillesse. Tome II,
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Les Belles Lettres Petrarque, Lettres de la Vieillesse. Tome III,
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Les Belles Lettres Petrarque, Lettres Familieres. Tome V: Livres
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Les Belles Lettres Les Conjectures: de Coniecturis
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Les Belles Lettres La Verole Et Le Remede Du Gaiac
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Les Belles Lettres de Byzance a l'Italie: L'Enseignement Du Grec a
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Les Belles Lettres Petrarque
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Les Belles Lettres de Arte Magna -Libri Quatuor
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Les Belles Lettres Novelle / Nouvelles III - 2e Partie VI-XXXVIII
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Les Belles Lettres L'Aretin, Il Marescalco/Le Marechal-Il
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Les Belles Lettres Petrarque, Lettres Familieres. Tome VI: Livres
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Les Belles Lettres Epigrammes / Epigrammata
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Classiques Garnier Diplomatie Et Espionnage: Du Traite Du
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Classiques Garnier Correspondance (1569-1614)
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Classiques Garnier La Danse Ecartelee: Moeurs, Esthetiques Et
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Classiques Garnier La Place Du Prince: Perspective Et Pouvoir Dans
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