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Author : E. Cobham Brewer
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3734093228
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama written by E. Cobham Brewer and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama by E. Cobham Brewer

Author : A. Johns-Putra
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230595723
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of the Epic written by A. Johns-Putra and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-07-11 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a history of the epic from the classical age to the present day. It deals not just with the well-know epics of antiquity and the Renaissance, but also pursues developments in more recent literature and film. It offers an exploration of the changes that have taken place in the genre from Homer to Hollywood.

Author : Giuspanio Graglia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.4I/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italian Pocket Dictionary written by Giuspanio Graglia and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Miracles written by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gianna Pomata
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contracting a Cure written by Gianna Pomata and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book shows how the "agreement for a cure" disappeared by the end of the early modern period precisely because of the determined opposition of physicians and jurists, who realized that payment by results was incompatible with the professionalization of medicine.

Author : Leigh Hunt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dante written by Leigh Hunt and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nancy G. Siraisi
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400832357
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Clock and the Mirror written by Nancy G. Siraisi and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576), renowned as a mathematician, encyclopedist, astrologer, and autobiographer, was by profession a medical practitioner. His copious writings on medicine reflect both the complexity and diversity of the Renaissance medical world and the breadth of his own interests. In this book, Nancy Siraisi draws on selected themes in Cardano's medical writings to explore in detail the relation between medicine and wider areas of Renaissance culture. Cardano’s medical advice included the suggestion that "the studious man should always have at hand a clock and a mirror"—a clock to keep track of the passage of time and a mirror to observe the changing condition of his body. The remark, which recalls his astrological and autobiographical interests, is emblematic of the many connections between his medicine and his other pursuits. Cardano’s philosophical eclecticism, beliefs about occult forces in nature, theories about dreams, and free transitions between academic and popularizing scientific writing also contributed to his medicine. As a physician, he greeted two different types of medical innovation in his lifetime with equal enthusiasm: improved access to the Hippocratic corpus and Vesalian anatomy. Cardano presented himself as a practitioner with special gifts. Yet his medical learning remained rooted in the Galenic tradition that he often criticized. Meanwhile, he negotiated a career in a medical community characterized by personal and social rivalries, a competitive medical marketplace, and strong institutional and religious pressures. Originally published in 1997. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Teofilo Folengo
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674031241
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baldo written by Teofilo Folengo and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folengo (1491-1544) was born in Mantua and joined the Benedictine order, but became a runaway monk and satirist of monasticism. In 1517 he published--as "Merlin Cocaio"--the first version of his macaronic narrative poem Baldo. This edition provides the first English translation of this send-up of ancient epic and Renaissance chivalric romance.

Author : Albert Russell Ascoli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316409287
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch written by Albert Russell Ascoli and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 1304–74), best known for his influential collection of Italian lyric poetry dedicated to his beloved Laura, was also a remarkable classical scholar, a deeply religious thinker and a philosopher of secular ethics. In this wide-ranging study, chapters by leading scholars view Petrarch's life through his works, from the epic Africa to the Letter to Posterity, from the Canzoniere to the vernacular epic Triumphi. Petrarch is revealed as the heir to the converging influences of classical cultural and medieval Christianity, but also to his great vernacular precursor, Dante, and his friend, collaborator and sly critic, Boccaccio. Particular attention is given to Petrach's profound influence on the Humanist movement and on the courtly cult of vernacular love poetry, while raising important questions as to the validity of the distinction between medieval and modern and what is lost in attempting to classify this elusive figure.

Author : Torquato Tasso
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discourses on the Heroic Poem written by Torquato Tasso and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1973 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: