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The Years of the Wizard
The Strange History and Home Life of Renaissance Magicians
NOVEDAD!!- Duckworth Books, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 27,75 €
ISBN 978-1-914613-96-8
EAN 9781914613968
All things were believable back then wizards, alchemy, fairies, angels. This is the story of those magical times. A lyrical and highly atmospheric exploration of the lives of Tudor and Renaissance magicians, men from Dee to Kepler to Bruno, who were also scientists, astrologers, mathematicians and alchemists.Their studies, books and ideas still permeate scientific history, ...
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Infanta
The Short, Remarkable Life of Catalina Micaela
NOVEDAD!!- Yale University Press, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 44,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-28283-2
EAN 9780300282832
The first full biography of Catalina Micaela, infanta of Spain and duchess of Savoy Catalina Micaela was the younger daughter of Philip II and granddaughter of Catherine de Medici. Aged just seventeen, Catalina married Carlo I, duke of Savoy, and moved from the royal court in Madrid to Turin to begin a new life as ...
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NOVEDAD!!- Penguin, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-1-80206-641-8
EAN 9781802066418
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- Harper Collins, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 22,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199770-4
EAN 9780141997704
The Enlightenment is popularly seen as the Age of Reason, a key moment in human history when ideals such as freedom, progress, natural rights and constitutional government prevailed. In this radical reevaluation, historian Richard Whatmore shows why, for many at its centre, the Enlightenment was a profound failure.By the early eighteenth century, hope was widespread ...
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- Vintage, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5291-4958-6
EAN 9781529149586
A queen on the edge.Anne Boleyn has mesmerised the English public for centuries. Her tragic execution, orchestrated by her own husband, never ceases to intrigue. How did this courtiers daughter become the queen of England, and what was it that really tore apart this illustrious marriage, making her the whore of England, an abandoned woman ...
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Catherine de' Medici
The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen
- Head Of Zeus, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-1-80024-477-1
EAN 9781800244771
Thoroughly researched. Sunday TimesTo be devoured. Philip ManselThis book is a treat for fans of well-told history. Washington PostA new biography of Catherine de Medici, the most powerful woman in sixteenth-century Europe, whose author uses neglected primary sources to recreate the life and times of a remarkable - and remarkably traduced - woman.History is rarely ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4059-4523-3
EAN 9781405945233
On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in HMS Resolution.Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach in Hawaii, Cook was killed beaten and stabbed in a conflict with the indigenous population. What brought Cook to these final moments, so at odds ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-0-85789-181-5
EAN 9780857891815
The fascinating story of the Venetian who helped to map the World during the Renaissance, by the author of A Venetian Affair and Autumn in Venice. 'A wonderful book' Sunday Telegraph, 5* 'Triumphant' Literary Review DURING THE AGE OF DISCOVERY, in the autumn of 1550, an anonymously authored volume containing a wealth of geographical information ...
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- Hodder & Stoughton, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-7002-7
EAN 9781529370027
In Britain in the 1750s, women had no power and no rights - all money and property belonged to their fathers or husbands. A brave group risked everything to think and live as they wished, despite the sneers of contemporaries who argued that books frazzled female brains and damaged their wombs. Meet the Bluestockings: ELIZABETH ...
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They Flew
A History of the Impossible
- Yale University Press, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 25,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-28007-4
EAN 9780300280074
Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft even as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal. In this book, Carlos M. N. Eire explores how a culture increasingly devoted to scientific thinking grappled with events deemed impossible by ...
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- Profile Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-667-6
EAN 9781788166676
Beauty, make up, power: plunge into the intimate history of cosmetics How to be a Renaissance Woman allows us to glimpse the world of the female artists, artisans and businesswomen carving out space for themselves, as well as those who gained power and influence in the cut-throat world of the court. In a vivid exploration ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-0-85789-180-8
EAN 9780857891808
The fascinating story of the Venetian who helped to map the World during the Renaissance, by the author of A Venetian Affairand Autumn in Venice. During the Age of Discovery a little-known public servant in the Venetian government, Giovambattista Ramusio, anonymously assembled and edited three volumes - over two million words - that revealed our ...
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A Seditious and Sinister Tribe
The Crimean Tatars and Their Khanate
- Reaktion Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 44,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78914-909-8
EAN 9781789149098
The Crimean Tatars Turkic-speaking native peoples of Crimea established a powerful Khanate in the 1440s, which remained in power until 1783. In this, the first history in English for over 100 years, eminent scholar Donald Rayfield gives a historical portrait, showing that this misunderstood and much-feared nation was in fact a flourishing state with a ...
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- Vintage, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5291-0996-2
EAN 9781529109962
The story of the British Empire is a familiar one: Britain came, it saw, it conquered, forging a glorious world empire upon which the sun never set. In fact, far from being the tale of a single nation imposing its will upon the world, the British Empire found itself reshaped by the tenacious resistance of ...
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Inside the Stargazer's Palace
The Transformation of Science in 16th-Century Northern Europe
- Oneworld, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 36,75 €
ISBN 978-0-86154-752-4
EAN 9780861547524
Enter the mysterious world of sixteenth-century science, where astronomers and alchemists shared laboratories... 'There is magic in these pages.' Daisy Dunn, author of The Missing ThreadIn 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus declared the earth revolved around the Sun, overturning centuries of scholastic presumption. A new age was coming into view one guided by observation, technology and logic.But ...
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- Random House USA, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 29,75 €
ISBN 978-0-307-59707-6
EAN 9780307597076
From the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair ( A narrative of novelistic resonance . . . Astonishing The Washington Post), the story of an Italian Renaissance book editor who introduced European minds to the wider world through his passion for geography In the autumn of 1550, a thick volume containing a wealth of ...
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The Other Renaissance
From Copernicus to Shakespeare
- Atlantic Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-1-83895-518-2
EAN 9781838955182
Through the lives of major figures from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, including Copernicus, Gutenberg, Luther, Catherine de Medici, Rabelais, van Eyck and Shakespeare, Paul Strathern tells the fascinating story of the northern European Renaissance, which rivalled its Italian counterpart.There is no denying that many of the first developments of the Renaissance took place ...
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Young Queens
The intertwined lives of Catherine de Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen os the Scots
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-1343-1
EAN 9781526613431
Sixteenth-century Europe: Renaissance masters paint the ceilings of Florentine churches, kings battle for control of the Continent, and the Reformation forever changes the religious organisation of society. Amidst it all, three young women come of age and into power in an era of empires and revolutions.Catherine de' Medici's story begins in a convent stormed by ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-1566-4
EAN 9781526615664
A profound and ground-breaking new history of one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth century. 'A triumph of writing and scholarship. It is hard to imagine anyone ever bettering Das's account of this part of the story' - William Dalrymple, Financial Times ...
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Shylock's Venice
The Remarkable History of Venice's Jews and the Ghetto
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-3994-0727-4
EAN 9781399407274
The thrilling story of the Jews in Venice and the truth behind one of Shakespeare's most famous characters. Millions of visitors flood to Venice every year. Yet many are unaware of its history one of dramatic expansion but also of rapid decline.And essential to any history of Venice during its glory days is the story ...
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