
On Exile - Filelfo, Francesco
Francesco Filelfo's On Exile depicts noblemen and humanists, driven from Florence by Cosimo de' Medici, discussing the…
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Francesco Filelfo's On Exile depicts noblemen and humanists, driven from Florence by Cosimo de' Medici, discussing the…
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During the '30s and '40s, Hollywood produced a genre of madcap comedies that emphasized reuniting the central couple after…
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Anonymous Old English Lives of Saints includes narratives from the eleventh and twelfth centuries about locally venerated…
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Brought to Florence by Lorenzo de' Medici as a celebrity preacher, Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498), a Dominican friar, would…
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A groundbreaking history of philosophy and punishment, The Prison before the Panopticon traces the influence of ancient…
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In the Miscellanies, the great Italian Renaissance scholar-poet Angelo Poliziano penned two sets of mini-essays focused on…
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The premier political philosopher of his day, John Rawls, in three decades of teaching at Harvard, has had a profound…
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Marsilio Ficino, the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. His…
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Contains the author's analysis and commentary on the Phaedrus, which he explicates as a meditation on beauty in all its…
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The twelfth-century Latin beast epic Ysengrimus is one of the great comic masterpieces of the Middle Ages. It recounts the…
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The variety of contemporary American poetry leaves many readers overwhelmed. The critic, scholar, and poet Stephen Burt sets…
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Covering the volatile period from 1945 to 1962 this book looks at key issues and people that shaped Soviet foreign policy.…
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Stanley Fish is one of America's most stimulating literary theorists. In this book, he undertakes a reexamination of some of…
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Presents two complementary medieval anthologies containing lyrics by two outstanding Latin poets of the second half of the…
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In US foreign policy, conflict has replaced diplomacy. At home, wars on crime, drugs, immigration, and terrorism dissolve…
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This volume presents the visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino. His Platonic evangelizing was…
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The most important literary dispute of the Renaissance pitted those writers of Neo-Latin who favoured imitation of Cicero…
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The most important work by one of America's greatest twentieth-century philosophers, Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind…
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The anonymous Tria sunt, with its wealth of illustrative materials, was a widely used and highly ambitious textbook compiled…
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The letters of Bartolomeo Fonzio-a leading literary figure in Florence of the time of Lorenzo de' Medici and Machiavelli-are…
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Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), considered the philosopher of the Renaissance, was born in Kues on the Moselle River. A…
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With Commonwealth, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri conclude the trilogy begun with Empire and continued in Multitude,…
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A rural borderland just forty years ago, today Shenzhen is a city of twenty million and a technology hub. This success is…
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Valla (1407-1457) was the most important theorist of the humanist movement. His most famous work is the present volume, an…
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Constantly revised and refined over three decades, Rawls's lectures on various historical figures reflect his developing and…
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Taylor shows that the modern turn inward is not disastrous but is in fact the result of our long efforts to define and reach…
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According to Yeats, rhetoric is the expression of one's quarrels with others, while poetry is the expression (and sometimes…
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Stanley Cavell looks closely at America's most popular art and our perceptions of it. His explorations of Hollywood's stars,…
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Through case studies of scientists in the Amazon analyzing soil and in Pasteur's lab studying the fermentation of lactic…
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From the ashes of empire, the nation rose on a wave of idealism. That, at least, is the standard tale. Dominique Reill…
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In 1699, Cotton Mather authored the first Spanish-language text in the English New World: a religious tract aimed at…
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Equity for Women in Science is the first large-scale empirical study of the global gender gap in science. Analyzing millions…
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Imagination is thought to be the province of childhood-the stuff of free play and unrestrained ideas. Then comes the dull…
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\nMichael Rosen shows how the redemptive hope of religion became the redemptive hope of historical progress. This was the…
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This is an introduction to Jacques Lacan's approach to therapy, from the point of view of a practitioner faced with the…
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Buildings can make us sick or keep us well. Diseases and toxins course through indoor spaces, making us ill. Meanwhile,…
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Morrison brings her genius to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary…
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Spoken by eighty million people, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that…
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Huntington examines the persistent gap between the promise of American ideals and the performance of American politics. He…
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Andrzej Franaszek's award-winning biography of Czeslaw Milosz the great Polish poet and winner of the Nobel Prize in…
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What makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation? This text, the conclusion…
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Give and Take offers a new history of government in Tokugawa Japan (1600-1868), one that focuses on ordinary subjects:…
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Anthropologist Jean L. Briggs spent seventeen months living on a remote Arctic shore as the "adopted daughter" of an Inuit…
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The human brain evolved to prioritize short-term rewards over long-term goals. But while this adaptation served our…
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The Democratic Marketplace argues that democracy has been hollowed out by capitalism. Seeking a path to self-governance,…
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Francis Cogliano revisits the relationship between Washington and Jefferson, arguing that their vaunted differences mask…
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