Author: Ireneo Affo
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Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Vita di Pier Luigi Farnese primo duca di Parma, Piacenta e Guastalla
Author: Ireneo Affo
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Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Pages : 218
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Son of the Alhambra
Author: Erika Spivakovsky
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477303138
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 477
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Last of the Spanish Renaissance men, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (1504–1575) was a master of the humanist disciplines as well as an active diplomat whose correspondence provides insight into the workings of power politics in the first post-Machiavellian decades. This account of Mendoza's diplomatic career is a living commentary on the mid-sixteenth century, the time of the Spanish Inquisition and the Reformation, with its upheavals in the European balance of power. Mendoza served as ambassador of Charles V to Venice and Rome and as governor of Siena. His political life complements the reign of the Emperor whose ambition was to become a universal monarch. An interesting contradiction in Mendoza's thought—his humanist theories versus personal ambition—prevented him from successful implemention of tyrannical imperial policies. His role in the government of the Holy Roman Empire shows how the exertion of imperialist power, humanist ethics notwithstanding, inevitably entails corruption, hypocrisy, greed, and imbalance in the one who tries to wield this power. Gifted to the point of universal genius, Mendoza was perhaps the foremost representative of the splendid but little-known epoch of Spanish humanism, the era between the death of Queen Isabel (1504) and the abdication of her grandson Charles V (1556). Spain's short-lived Renaissance came to an abrupt end with the accession of Philip II and the almost simultaneous onset of the Counter Reformation. To this changed Spain, under monolithic thought control now exacted and enforced by monarch and Inquisition, Mendoza returned to live the last third of his life, mostly in obscurity, and in the last few years in royal disgrace. Based on primary sources, this first biography of Mendoza in English also examines the relevance of some of Don Diego's disputed literary works to the legend that grew up around him as a spokesman for latent unorthodox opinion.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477303138
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
Last of the Spanish Renaissance men, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (1504–1575) was a master of the humanist disciplines as well as an active diplomat whose correspondence provides insight into the workings of power politics in the first post-Machiavellian decades. This account of Mendoza's diplomatic career is a living commentary on the mid-sixteenth century, the time of the Spanish Inquisition and the Reformation, with its upheavals in the European balance of power. Mendoza served as ambassador of Charles V to Venice and Rome and as governor of Siena. His political life complements the reign of the Emperor whose ambition was to become a universal monarch. An interesting contradiction in Mendoza's thought—his humanist theories versus personal ambition—prevented him from successful implemention of tyrannical imperial policies. His role in the government of the Holy Roman Empire shows how the exertion of imperialist power, humanist ethics notwithstanding, inevitably entails corruption, hypocrisy, greed, and imbalance in the one who tries to wield this power. Gifted to the point of universal genius, Mendoza was perhaps the foremost representative of the splendid but little-known epoch of Spanish humanism, the era between the death of Queen Isabel (1504) and the abdication of her grandson Charles V (1556). Spain's short-lived Renaissance came to an abrupt end with the accession of Philip II and the almost simultaneous onset of the Counter Reformation. To this changed Spain, under monolithic thought control now exacted and enforced by monarch and Inquisition, Mendoza returned to live the last third of his life, mostly in obscurity, and in the last few years in royal disgrace. Based on primary sources, this first biography of Mendoza in English also examines the relevance of some of Don Diego's disputed literary works to the legend that grew up around him as a spokesman for latent unorthodox opinion.
Encyclopædia Americana
Author: Francis Lieber
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Encyclopaedia Americana. A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography. A New Ed.; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the 7th Ed of the German Conversations-lexicon
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Languages : en
Pages : 614
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Languages : en
Pages : 614
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Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum
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Languages : en
Pages : 682
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Pages : 682
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The History of the Popes
Author: Ludwig Freiherr von Pastor
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Category : Papacy
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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SHELVED: 1st FLOOR REFERENCE--COUNTER HIGH SHELVING WEST SIDE.Missing v. 1, 17, and 38-40, (06-03).
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Category : Papacy
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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SHELVED: 1st FLOOR REFERENCE--COUNTER HIGH SHELVING WEST SIDE.Missing v. 1, 17, and 38-40, (06-03).
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
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Languages : en
Pages : 732
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Pages : 732
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Encyclopædia Americana
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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Bertoia, Mirola and the Farnese Court
Author: Diane DeGrazia
Publisher: Nuova Alfa
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Study of Jacopo Bertoia, regarded as the finest painter of the late 16th century Farnese court, and of Girolamo Mirola, now thought to have painted much of the work previously attributed to Bertoia.
Publisher: Nuova Alfa
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Study of Jacopo Bertoia, regarded as the finest painter of the late 16th century Farnese court, and of Girolamo Mirola, now thought to have painted much of the work previously attributed to Bertoia.
Farnese
Author: Helge Gamrath
Publisher: L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER
ISBN: 9788882654269
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Publisher: L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER
ISBN: 9788882654269
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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