It marks a milestone in the 20-year rise of gay and lesbian studies.--Martin Duberman, The Advocate
The men of Renaissance Florence were so renowned for sodomy that Florenzer in German meant sodomite. In the late fifteenth century, as many as one in two..
2. Lucrezia: di Baccio del Fede, a cap-maker''s widow, says Vasari, who ensnared Andrea before her husband''s death, and who delighted in trapping the hearts of men. 15. Fiesole: a hillside city on the Arno, three miles west of Florence..
'The Prince': It was Niccolò Machiavelli who essentially removed ethics from government. He did it with this book, when he asserted that The Prince (president, dictator, prime minister, etc.) does not have to be concerned with ethics, as long as their mot..
Gene Brucker explores those pivotal years in Florence and ranges over northern Italy, with forays into the histories of Genoa, Milan, and Venice. The ten essays, three of which have never before been published, exhibit Brucker's graceful intelligence, his ..
Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. Account of the Ecclesiastical Assembly of Florence, and of the Acts passed by it.--Answers o..
As generous patrons to the likes of Botticelli and Michelangelo, the ruling Medici embodied the progressive humanist spirit of the age, and in Lorenzo de' Medici (Lorenzo the Magnificent) they possessed a diplomat capable of guarding the militarily weak ci..
Yet, for more than a century after work began on the cathedral in 1296, the proposed dome was regarded as impossible to build. It became the greatest architectural puzzle of the age, and when finally completed in 1436, was hailed as one of the wonders of t..
The sluggish Arno and the Ponte Vecchio shimmer in the summer haze. A corpse lies on the roadside, waiting for discovery...Every August, Florence shimmers in the summer heat. But this year the heatwave is fiercer than usual, and the city's inhabitants h..
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