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Il formaggio e i vermi
by Carlo Ginzburg, Anne C. Tedeschi
As frequently happens, this research, too, came about by chance.
Brunelleschi's dome
by Ross King
ON AUGUST 19, 1418, competition was announced in Florence, where the city's magnificent new cathedral, Santa Maria del F...
The Stones of Venice
by John Ruskin
I. SINCE the first dominion of men was asserted over the ocean, three thrones, of mark beyond all others, have been set ...
Benandanti
by Carlo Ginzburg, John Tedeschi
On 21 March 1575, in the monastery of San Francesco di Cividale in the Friuli, there appeared before the vicar general, ...
Istorie Fiorentine
by Niccolò Machiavelli, Félix Fernández Murga
THE peoples who live in northern parts beyond the Rhine and the Danube rivers, having been born in a productive and heal...
The Sicilian Vespers
by Steven Runciman
On a January day early in 1251 a messenger came to Lyons, where Pope Innocent IV was living in exile from Rome.
