Found 10,774 results for "Renaissance, italy"
Drawing in early Renaissance Italy
by Francis Ames-Lewis
FIFTEENTH and sixteenth-century writers on the arts provide us with various kinds of source material for drawing in Cent...
The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
ALL THE STATES and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedom...
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 ...
The Renaissance, Studies in Art and Poetry
by Walter Pater
"The history of the Renaissance ends in France, and carries us away from Italy to the beautiful cities of the country of...
Metamorphoses
by Ovid
The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...
The Tempest
by William Shakespeare
1.1 On board a ship carrying King Alonso of Naples and his entourage, a boatswain directs the crew to fight a great stor...
Decamerone
by Giovanni Boccaccio
DEAREST ladies, it is fitting that everything done by man should begin with the marvelous and holy name of Him who was t...
Invitation to Renaissance Italy
by Rachel Annand Taylor
Dubiously and gorgeously, around the year 1485, life, as it is understood by modern minds and senses, begins again.
Immodest Acts
by Judith C. Brown
BENEDETTA'S STORY BEGINS in sixteenth-century Vellano, a remote mountain village perched on the slopes of the Appennines...
Leonardo
by Leonardo da Vinci, Kunster
If anyone fits the description 'Renaissance man' it is Leonardo da Vinci.
