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Another devotional from the best-selling One Year line, "The One Year Devotional of Joy and Laughter" is specifically designed to brighten your day with laughter and joy. Joy is a special type of happiness. Each one of us needs to and should create habits in our lives that encourage us to look on the bright side of our circumstances and see the goodness in what God has given us. This devotional is a daily joy break--something all of us need.

The life and times of Catherine de' Medici, by scholar of the Italian Renaissance Mary Hollingsworth.

An illustrated history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most important patrons - the princely rulers of Italy's dynastic states.

A fresh telling of the rise and fall of the House of Medici, the family that dominated political and cultural life in Florence for three centuries.

Conspiracy, intrigue and faction fighting as the future of Europe hangs in the balance: Mary Hollingsworth tells the story of the papal conclave in 1559.

Conspiracy, intrigue and faction fighting as the future of Europe hangs in the balance: Mary Hollingsworth tells the story of the papal conclave in 1559.

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An illustrated history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most important patrons - the princely rulers of Italy's dynastic states.

A vivid history of the lives and times of the aristocratic elite whose patronage created the art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance.The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was an era of dramatic political, religious, and cultural change in the Italian peninsula, witnessing major innovations in the visual arts, literature, music, and science. Princes of the Renaissance charts these developments in a sequence of eleven chapters, each of w...

Offers a perspective on the artistic and architectural expressions of cultures across the world and throughout time. From the cave paintings of Lascaux to Picasso, from the pyramids of ancient Egypt to Chinese terracotta, this book demonstrates how human perceptions of art and space have evolved with the ages.

The first comprehensive overview of its subject in any language. Its thirty-five essays explain who cardinals were, what they did in Rome and beyond, for the Church and for wider society.

An illustrated history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most important and influential patrons - the princely rulers of Italy's dynastic states and their families.

A fresh, revelatory, and shockingly revisionist narrative of the rise and fall of the House of Medici, by the acclaimed author of The Cardinal's Hat and The Borgias.Having founded the bank that became the most powerful in Europe in the fifteenth century, the Medici gained massive political power in Florence, raising the city to a peak of cultural achievement and becoming its hereditary dukes. Among their number were no fewer than three popes a...

A new slant on the rise and fall of the House of Medici, which shaped political and cultural life in Florence for three centuries.

From a noted scholar on the Italian Renaissance and the acclaimed author of "The Cardinal's Hat" and "The Borgias" comes a fresh, revelatory, and shockingly revisionist narrative of the rise and fall of the House of Medici.

From a noted scholar on the Italian Renaissance and the acclaimed author of "The Cardinal's Hat" and "The Borgias" comes a fresh, revelatory, and shockingly revisionist narrative of the rise and fall of the House of Medici.

L'arte nella storia dell'uomo: ovvero una storia dell'arte universale, sintetica ma esauriente sotto ogni aspetto, che ripercorre la genesi e l'evoluzione delle esperienze figurative e architettoniche di tutto il mondo e di tutti i tempi. È un grande mosaico, che il lettore potrà leggere in parallelo, anzi in un continuo intreccio con la storia dell'umanità: dall'arte primitiva delle grotte di Lascaux ai dipinti di Picasso, dalle piramidi dell...