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The Venetian Painters of the RenaissanceThe Venetian Painters of the Renaissance - Third EditionThe following essay owes its origin to the author's belief that Venetian painting is the most complete expression in art of the Italian Renaissance. The Renaissance is even more important typically than historically. Historically it may...
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Man on the Ocean: A Book about Boats and ShipsMan on the Ocean: A Book about Boats and ShipsThose who regard familiar objects in art and nature as mere matters of course, and do not trouble themselves to wander out of the beaten track of everyday thought, may not at first feel the...
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Scottish Cathedrals and AbbeysScottish Cathedrals and AbbeysThis book is designed to render to Scottish Churchmen the special service of presenting to them, in a brief but comprehensive survey, the record of their ecclesiastical history which is engraved in their ecclesiastical architecture. There is no record so authentic...
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Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her DayLucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her DayLucretia Borgia is the most unfortunate woman in modern history. Is this because she was guilty of the most hideous crimes, or is it simply because she has been unjustly condemned by the world...
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The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the SecondThe Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the Second - An Ethical PoemThe second part of "The Heroic Enthusiasts" which I am now sending to the press is on the same subject as the first, namely the struggles of the soul in its upward...
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The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the FirstThe Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the First - An Ethical PoemNola, a city founded by the Chalcidian Greeks, at a short distance from Naples and from Vesuvius, was the birth-place of Giordano Bruno. It is described by David Levi as a city...
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Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance PeriodsLibraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods - The Rede Lecture Delivered June 13, 1894The former commends itself to the practical turn of mind characteristic of the present day; common sense urges that mechanical ingenuity, which has done so much in other directions, should...
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Avril: Being Essays on the Poetry of the French RenaissanceAvril: Being Essays on the Poetry of the French RenaissanceWe have wondered together that a society so avid of experience and enlargement as is ours, should ignore the chief expression of its closest neighbour, its highest rival and its coheir in Europe: should ignore,...
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The Florentine Painters of the RenaissanceThe Florentine Painters of the Renaissance - With An Index To Their WorksThe lists have been thoroughly revised, and some of them considerably increased. Botticini, Pier Francesco Fiorentino, and Amico di Sandro have been added, partly for the intrinsic value of their work, and...
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Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 6 and 7 (of 7)Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 6 and 7 (of 7) - The Catholic Reaction At the end of the second volume of my 'Renaissance in Italy' I indulged the hope that I might live to describe the phase of culture which closed that brilliant epoch....
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The Age of ErasmusThe Age of Erasmus - Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and LondonThe importance of biography for the study of history can hardly be overrated. In a sense it is true that history should be like the law and 'care not about very...
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Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7)Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) - The Age of the Despots This volume is the First Part of a work upon the 'Renaissance in Italy.' The Second Part treats of the Revival of Learning. The Third, of the Fine Arts. The Fourth...
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Knots, Splices and Rope WorkKnots, Splices and Rope Work - A Practical Treatise Giving Complete and Simple Directions for Making All the Most Useful and Ornamental Knots in Common Use, with Chapters on Splicing, Pointing, Seizing, Serving, etc.The history of ropes and knots is so dim and ancient...
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English Travellers of the RenaissanceEnglish Travellers of the RenaissanceAmong the many didactic books which flooded England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were certain essays on travel. Some of these have never been brought to light since their publication more than three hundred years ago, or been mentioned...
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Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance PeriodManners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Periodhe several successive editions of "The Arts of the Middle Ages and Period of the Renaissance" sufficiently testify to its appreciation by the public. The object of that work was to introduce...
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Rhetoric and Poetry in the RenaissanceRhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance - A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary CriticismIn this essay I undertake to trace the influence of classical rhetoric on the criticisms of poetry published in England between 1553 and 1641. This influence is most...
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Old CalabriaOld Calabria I find it hard to sum up in one word the character of Lucerathe effect it produces on the mind; one sees so many towns that the freshness of their images becomes blurred. The houses are low but not undignified; the streets...
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The Renaissance: studies in art and poetryThe Renaissance: studies in art and poetryThis should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need about what they can...
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The Life of Cesare BorgiaThe Life of Cesare Borgia This is no Chronicle of Saints. Nor yet is it a History of Devils. It is a record of certain very human, strenuous men in a very human, strenuous age; a lustful, flamboyant age; an age red with blood...
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The Renaissance: Studies in Art and PoetryThe Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find a universal formula for it. The value of these attempts...
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