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Product Description: When Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, the force of the explosion blew the top right off the mountain, burying nearby Pompeii in a shower of volcanic ash. Ironically, the calamity that proved so lethal for Pompeii's inhabitants preserved the city for centuries, leaving behind a snapshot of Roman daily life that has captured the imagination of generations...read more
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9780674047938 | Belknap Pr, March 24, 2014, cover price $28.95
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9780674088092 | Belknap Pr, November 16, 2015, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: When Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, the force of the explosion blew the top right off the mountain, burying nearby Pompeii in a shower of volcanic ash.
Product Description: Italian astronomer and Dominican friar Giordano Bruno (1548â1600), found guilty of heresy by the Roman Inquisition and burned at the stake, has long been an enigma of early modern European philosophy. His central 1586 work On the Heroic Frenzies has shown a particular need for a fresh examination...read more
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9781442643895 | Bilingual edition (Univ of Toronto Pr, September 11, 2013), cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Italian astronomer and Dominican friar Giordano Bruno (1548â1600), found guilty of heresy by the Roman Inquisition and burned at the stake, has long been an enigma of early modern European philosophy.
Paperback:
9780226730240 | Univ of Chicago Pr, September 1, 2009, cover price $18.00
9780140058123, titled "Off the Wall: Robert Rauschenberg and the Art World of Our Time" | Reprint edition (Viking Pr, June 1, 1981), cover price $12.00 | also contains Off the Wall: Robert Rauschenberg and the Art World of Our Time | About this edition: Looks at the personalities who have shaped modern American art from the founding of the Museum of Modern Art and the rise of abstract expressionism to the explosion of styles that began in the 1960s
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9780809095247, titled "Giordano Bruno: Philosopher Heretic" | Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 19, 2008, cover price $27.00
Product Description: From Raphael to Annibale Carracci offers an unprecedented view of a group of works by some of the most celebrated names in Italian art, including Michelangelo, Raphael, Giorgio Vasari, Federico Barocci, and Annibale Carracci, as well as lesser-known but superb artists, many of whom have only recently been appreciated for their skill and relevance...read more
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9780888848673 | Natl Gallery of Canada, June 1, 2009, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: From Raphael to Annibale Carracci offers an unprecedented view of a group of works by some of the most celebrated names in Italian art, including Michelangelo, Raphael, Giorgio Vasari, Federico Barocci, and Annibale Carracci, as well as lesser-known but superb artists, many of whom have only recently been appreciated for their skill and relevance.
Product Description: From the revelations of classical statuary pulled from the Roman soil as the popes began rebuilding the city in the fifteenth century, to the myth of serenity that Venice constructed to conceal its physical and political fragility, to bloody yet cultured Florence under the Medici, Ingrid D...read more
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9781590171233 | New York Review of Books, November 1, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays on Renaissance art and culture covers the careers and work of Caravaggio, Corrieggio, Botticelli, Titian, Leonardo, and many others, exploring themes of eroticism and sexuality in literature as well as the Renaissance fascination with ancient Egypt.
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9781590172957 | New York Review of Books, November 25, 2008, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: From the revelations of classical statuary pulled from the Roman soil as the popes began rebuilding the city in the fifteenth century, to the myth of serenity that Venice constructed to conceal its physical and political fragility, to bloody yet cultured Florence under the Medici, Ingrid D.
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9780226730219 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 1, 2016, cover price $33.33
Product Description: Bored teenager Curzio Inghirami staged perhaps the most outlandish prank of the seventeenth century when he hatched a wild scheme that preyed on the Italian fixation with ancestry by forging an array of ancient Latin and Etruscan documents...read more
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9780226730363 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 31, 2004, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The career of young seventeenth-century scam artist Curzio Inghirami is traced in this account of his far-reaching prank, involving an array of forged ancient Latin and Etruscan documents that caught the attention of the Vatican and scandalized all of Rome.
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9780226730370 | Univ of Chicago Pr, November 15, 2005, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Bored teenager Curzio Inghirami staged perhaps the most outlandish prank of the seventeenth century when he hatched a wild scheme that preyed on the Italian fixation with ancestry by forging an array of ancient Latin and Etruscan documents.
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9780810151482 | Triquarterly Books, October 26, 2004, cover price $18.95
Product Description: The Ecstatic Journey: Athanasius Kircher in Baroque Rome surveys the scientific, religious, and political culture of seventeenth-century Rome through the works of Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680), a German Jesuit at the Roman College...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780943056258 | Univ of Chicago Pr, February 1, 2001, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The Ecstatic Journey: Athanasius Kircher in Baroque Rome surveys the scientific, religious, and political culture of seventeenth-century Rome through the works of Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680), a German Jesuit at the Roman College.
Product Description: Between 1480 and 1520, a concentration of talented artists, including Melozzo da Forlì, Bramante, Pinturicchio, Raphael, and Michelangelo, arrived in Rome and produced some of the most enduring works of art ever created. This period, now called the High Renaissance, is generally considered to be one of the high points of Western civilisation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780521581455 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 1, 1998, cover price $75.00
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9780521794411 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 2001, cover price $54.99 | About this edition: Between 1480 and 1520, a concentration of talented artists, including Melozzo da Forlì, Bramante, Pinturicchio, Raphael, and Michelangelo, arrived in Rome and produced some of the most enduring works of art ever created.
Product Description: A scholar's desk, a warlord's castle, a pope's altar, the mouth of a volcano: in the minds of early modern Europeans, all evoked memories of ancient times, from Egyptian pharaohs to Roman emperors. The essays in this catalog explore the influence of antiquity on a broad spectrum of artistic production in Europe, from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780935573282 | Univ of Chicago David & Alfred, September 1, 2000, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A scholar's desk, a warlord's castle, a pope's altar, the mouth of a volcano: in the minds of early modern Europeans, all evoked memories of ancient times, from Egyptian pharaohs to Roman emperors.
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Hardcover:
9780521553643 | New edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 1999), cover price $83.99
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