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One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it. Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what...
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English
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Florence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is comfortable with her obscure place in the palazzo: free to wonder at its treasures, observe its clandestine workings, and devote herself to her own artistic pursuits. But when her older sister dies on the eve of her wedding to the ruler of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, Lucrezia is thrust unwittingly into the limelight: the duke is quick to request her hand in marriage, and her father...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Michelangelo created some of the world's most recognizable art, from the statue of David to the intricate ceiling fresco of the Sistine Chapel. Beyond his well-known painting and sculpting, he was a gifted poet and architect. Young readers can learn about the entirety of Michelangelo's life, from his time as a young apprentice, and his relationships with several Catholic popes and the Medici family, to his unwillingness to stop working into his late...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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ix, 419 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of color plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
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English
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"The period between 1492--resonant for a number of reasons--and 1571, when the Ottoman navy was defeated in the Battle of Lepanto, embraces what we know as the Renaissance, one of the most dynamic and creatively explosive epochs in world history. Here is the period that gave rise to so many great artists and figures, and which by its connection to its classical heritage enabled a redefinition, even reinvention, of human potential. It was a moment...
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Hinges of history volume 6
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Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2014.
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xix, 341 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm.
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English
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Thomas Cahill guides us through a time so full of innovation that the Western world would not again experience its like until the twentieth century: the new humanism of the Renaissance and the radical religious alterations of the Reformation. This was an age in which whole continents and peoples were discovered. It was an era of sublime artistic and scientific adventure, but also of newly powerful princes and armies — and of unprecedented courage,...
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[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
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2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Combines history, biography, and performance as various actors who have been in Shakespeare productions discuss the characters and the stories behind the plays.
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Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop, Inc
Pub. Date
c2007
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1 videodisc (93 min. ) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 47 p. booklet containing music scores
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English
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Celebrated folk musician John Renbourn presents five transcriptions of medieval and renaissance music pieces specifically arranged for the fingerstyle guitar technique. This program demonstrates how to play early music compositions such as "The Earle of Salisbury," "Saltarello," and "Robin is to the Greenwood Gone."
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Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
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352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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On August 10, 1632, five men in flowing black robes convened in a somber Roman palazzo to pass judgment on a deceptively simple proposition: that a continuous line is composed of distinct and infinitely tiny parts. With the stroke of a pen the Jesuit fathers banned the doctrine of infinitesimals, announcing that it could never be taught or even mentioned. The concept was deemed dangerous and subversive, a threat to the belief that the world was an...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings-the dazzling handiwork of the city's skilled artists and architects. But equally important for the centuries to follow were geniuses of a different sort: Florence's manuscript hunters, scribes, scholars, and booksellers, who blew the dust off a thousand years of history and, through the discovery and diffusion of ancient knowledge, imagined a new and enlightened...
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Yale University Press
Pub. Date
c2007
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xviii, 349 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
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English
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This book explores the streets, shops, back alleys, and gardens of Elizabethan London where a boisterous and diverse group of men and women shared a keen interest in the study of nature. These assorted merchants, gardeners, barber-surgeons, midwives, instrument makers, mathematics teachers, engineers, alchemists, and other experimenters formed a patchwork scientific community whose practices set the stage for the Scientific Revolution, Deborah Harkness...
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HarperPerennial ModernClassics
Pub. Date
2006.
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xii, 308, 16 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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English
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First published in 1942 at the crest of her popularity as a writer, this is Zora Neale Hurston's imaginative and exuberant account of her rise from childhood poverty in the rural South to a prominent place among the leading artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance. This is a book full of the wit and wisdom of a proud and spirited woman who started low and climbed high.
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Series
Bitter root volume 2
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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"Monster-hunting has been the Sangerye family business for generations as they battle the jinoo - hideous creatures born out of hate and racism. But now the Sangeryes face a different threat -- the deadly inzondo, a new kind of monster born out of grief and trauma. With one of their own turning into an inzondo and an army of tortured souls on the attack in 1920s Harlem, the Sangerye family must once again fight to save the world, unless their own...
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Wolf Hall trilogy volume Book 3
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English
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""If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?" England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness...
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
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viii, 338 p.; 23 cm.
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English
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In 1593 Christopher Marlowe, temporarily bereft of his artistic muse, takes on his final espionage assignment for the nascent intelligence agencies of the time-a smuggling case that may involve high-level individuals. In contemporary New York, Kate Morgan, English Renaissance scholar turned PI, is directed by her firm-which doubles as an undercover U.S. intelligence unit-to look into the attempted burglary from the home of a dashing London financial...
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Series
Bitter root volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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"In the 1920s, the Harlem Renaissance is in full swing, and only the Sangerye Family, once known as the greatest monster hunters of all time, can save New York -- and the world -- from the supernatural forces threatening to destroy humanity. But those days are fading and the once-great family that specialized in curing the souls of those infected by racism and hate has been torn apart by tragedies and conflicting moral codes. A terrible tragedy has...
20) Everlasting
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HarperCollins
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English
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"Spanning two thousand years, The Everlasting follows four characters whose struggles resonate across the centuries: an early Christian child martyr; a medieval monk on crypt duty in a church; a Medici princess of Moorish descent; and a contemporary field biologist conducting an illicit affair. Outsiders to a city layered and dense with history, this quartet separated by time grapple with the physicality of bodies, the necessity for sacrifice, and...
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