Ross King
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The Shortest History of Ancient Rome
A Millennia of Western Civilization, from Kingdom to Republic to Empire
- Academic Norton, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 979-8-89303-058-7
EAN 9798893030587
Ancient Rome gave rise to the Roman Empire, one of history's greatest civilizations. It flourished for roughly five hundred years and encompassed more than twenty-five modern-day countries including such remote (from Rome) places as Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, and England. It left an indelible mark on the world, shaping politics, laws, philosophy, and architecture, and giving ...
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The Bookseller of Florence
Vespasianno da Bisticci and the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance
- Vintage UK, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-937-2
EAN 9781784709372
In the mid-1400s, Vespasiano da Bisticci's bookshop in Florence was said to contain all the wisdom of the world. Vespasiano and his team of scribes and illuminators produced exquisite manuscripts for popes and princes across Europe, rediscovering and disseminating some of the most significant texts from classical antiquity. But in 1476 a new technology arrived ...
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The Bookseller of Florence
Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance
- Chatto & Windus, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78474-266-9
EAN 9781784742669
An exhilarating and untold account of a Florentine bookseller working at the frontiers of human knowledge, and the epochal shift from script to print that defined the Renaissance. The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings - the dazzling handiwork of the city's artists and architects. But equally important were geniuses ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 36,90 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-6195-0
EAN 9781408861950
Claude Monet's water lily paintings are among the most iconic and beloved works of art of the past century. Yet these entrancing images were created at a time of terrible private turmoil and sadness for the artist. The dramatic history behind these paintings is little known; Ross King's Mad Enchantment tells the full story for ...
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La cupola del Brunelleschi
La nascita avventurosa di un prodigio dell'architettura edel genio che lo ideò
Per costruire Santa Maria del Fiore i fiorentini avevano abbattuto intere foreste per ricavare il legname delle travi, raso al suolo vecchie chiese e quartieri, esumato i morti dalle tombe attorno al battistero di San Giovanni. La prima pietra era stata posata nel 1296, e nel 1418 mancava un solo particolare: la cupola. Sarebbe stata ...
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- Vintage UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952678-0
EAN 9780099526780
Even in an age of soaring skyscrapers and cavernous sports stadiums, the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, with its immense, terracotta-tiled cupola, still retains a rare power to astonish. Yet the elegance of the building belies the tremendous labour, technical ingenuity and bitter personal strife involved in its creation. For over a ...
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