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The year is 1632, five years after the Siege of La Rochelle where Louis XIII's forces, led by Cardinal Richelieu, triumphed over the Huguenot Rebellion.
After they surrendered, the Huguenot survivors were forced to swear allegiance to the French King. There were some, however, who would remain true to their cause and would always be rebels. Athos of the King's Musketeers, formerly the Comte de la Fere, makes the decision to infiltrate a group of...
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THE RENAISSANCE TRILOGY - BOOK IIIn this sequel to THE MERCY OF LIONS; Knight of Rhodes, Hugh de Erpingham, continues his quest into the dark heart of renaissance Italy. Keeping one step ahead of the mysterious White Cardinal, and always just beyond the reach of his arch-nemesis Antonio Vendramin, Hugh and company still find time to make new enemies in Ferrara, Mantua and Venice, and some new friends too. Caught in the jaws of the venetian war, Hugh...
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Un gran viaje histórico artístico desde el quattrocento de la Florencia de los Medici y la época dorada del cinquecento, con los grandes genios Leonardo, Miguel Ángel o Rafael hasta la propagación del Renacimiento por toda Europa y su florecimiento en España en el siglo XVI con la poesía mística, la picaresca, el Quijote o El Greco
Conozca una de las épocas más interesantes de la historia, el inicio de la Edad Moderna y el desarrollo de...
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The powerful, raging second novel in The Venetians trilogy that tells of the bitter and enduring conflict between two powerful Italian noble families.
The Lion of St. Mark told the story of the deep-seated rivalry between the patrician Ziani and Soranzo families--a long history of hatred and strife that had passed from one generation to the next. In the end, the brave Antonio Ziani and the proud Giovanni Soranzo set aside their personal vendettas...
85) Martí de Viciana: Libro tercero de la Crónica de la ínclita y coronada ciudad de Valencia y de su
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En esta parte de su Crónica, editada el 1564, Martí de Viciana, doctorado en Derecho en Valencia, notario de la corte del alcalde y justicia de Burriana, elabora una descripción topográfica de las poblaciones valencianas. El historiador escribió su obra en catalán, pese a que la publicó en castellano. Se trata de uno de los testigos más importantes de la época de las Germanías.
86) Falcons Fly West
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When Oliver Cromwell's Parliament tightens its grip on former Royalists, John FitzStephen and his son sail to America where he owns a land tract. John thinks he has left religious and political strife in England but he is wrong, for many colonists brought their bigotry to America. John hopes can leave his love of sailing the world and begin a new life in New Haven Colony. He finds friends, and a foe, Puritan zealot, Reverend Joseph Foxe.
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Victoria Kahn is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. She is the author of Rhetoric, Prudence, and Skepticism in the Renaissance (Cornell) and co-editor, with Albert Ascoli, of Machiavelli and the Discourse of Literature (Cornell).
Historians of political thought have argued that the real Machiavelli is the republican thinker and theorist of civic virt. Machiavellian Rhetoric argues in contrast that Renaissance...
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Durante el siglo XIV, las estructuras políticas, fiscales y financieras de los estados que formaban la Corona de Aragón sufrieron una profunda transformación. Como consecuencia de esta, surgieron las diputaciones del General, llamadas más tarde en Valencia y Cataluña Generalitat. Este libro pretende explicar, por una parte, cómo era y cómo funcionaba durante el siglo XVI «el sistema fiscal» del que fue titular la Generalitat foral valenciana...
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From Jeanne Kalogridis, the bestselling author of The Borgia Bride and The Scarlet Contessa, comes a tale of love, loss and treachery set during the perilous days of the Spanish Inquisition
1481 Seville: The Inquisition makes its first appearance in Spain. Its target: conversos, Christians of Jewish descent-specifically those who practice Judaism secretly in their homes. The penalty for "crypto-Judaism": Burning at the stake.
Marisol Garcia, a young...
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Here is a collection of short prose that allows you to judge the multifaceted work of the writer. Poignant stories about human destinies, love and death, passion and loneliness, the mysterious past and the fantastic future, in which, sometimes, it is difficult to draw a line between reality and fiction, found their shelter in it. Romantic and philosophical, cheerful and creepy, they are all written in the unique handwriting of a master who never ceases...
91) Leonardo's Lost Princess: One Man's Quest to Authenticate an Unknown Portrait by Leonardo Da Vinci
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How an oddly attributed $19,000 picture proved to be a $100 million work by Leonardo da Vinci-a true art-world detective story
In late 2010, art collector Peter Silverman revealed that a "German, early 19th century" portrait he had bought for $19,000 was, in fact, a previously unknown drawing by Leonardo da Vinci-an exquisite depiction of Bianca Sforza, rendered 500 years ago. In Leonardo's Lost Princess, Silverman gives a riveting first-person account...
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In this Sherlockian investigation, historian Peter Dawkins uncovers clues hiding in plain sight which show that the prima facie evidence suggesting that William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote the Shakespeare works is not what it seems. Instead, it is a double-truth showing a very different authorship, and the involvement of a philanthropic secret society dedicated to the enlightenment and good of all humanity.
Follow a treasure trail of...
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¿Cuáles son las circunstancias que enlazan episodios del Renacimiento italiano, del Berlín de comienzos de la Guerra Fría, del Ecuador de contrastes en los años cincuenta, y del Ecuador de estos días, moderno y seductor?
¿Pueden existir eventos que conecten las bellas artes con la fragancia del cilantro, la amistad con un humilde guiso de patatas?
El Canto de la Essentia atrapa a los protagonistas en una noble aventura cargada de enigmas que...
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¿Por qué los musulmanes fueron empujados a recibir el bautismo cuando bien se sabía que no creían en Jesucristo? ¿Por qué sus descendientes, los moriscos, fueron expulsados después de tantos esfuerzos para alejarlos del islam? La historiografía, desde los años setenta, solía centrarse en la percepción de los moriscos, víctimas de la conversión forzada, en este libro se analiza la conversión de los musulmanes de España al catolicismo...
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After Sir Marmaduke de Chevasse sets his sights on the young Lady Sue, his efforts are thwarted by the arrival of the dashing Richard Lambert. The impending pair become the focal point of the elder's money-grubbing scheme.
Set in the seventeenth century, The Nest of the Sparrowhawk follows the events within a small Puritan community. One of its members, Sir Marmaduke de Chevasse, is captivated by the young ward, Lady Sue. She is beautiful, charming...
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In 1928, when her father tears her and her brother from their mother in North Carolina and takes them to live with aunts in Harlem, twelve-year-old Bessie is trapped in a strange place, especially after her father mysteriously disappears.
97) Renaissance for Kids: A Captivating Guide to a Period in the History of Europe Following the Middle
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Did you know that the Renaissance is thought of as the gateway to the modern world?
The Renaissance was only a short period in European history, but it was the revolution needed to move from the Middle Ages to the modern world. It was full of new philosophies and art, new architecture and inventions, and new governments and churches. In a short span of time, the Europeans found themselves creating, acting, and living in completely new ways. People...
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London, 1609. When Lucy St.John, a beautiful highborn orphan at the court of King James, is seduced by the Earl of Suffolk, she never imagines the powerful enemy she creates in his beloved sister, the Countess of Rochester. Or that her own sister Barbara would betray her and force Lucy to leave the court in disgrace. Spirited, educated, and skilled in medicine and precious remedies, Lucy fights her way back into society, and through an unexpected...
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Huérfana desde pequeña, Arabella Hampton no ha sido más que una carga para sus tíos, que nunca la han querido. El único afecto que ha conocido le llegaba de la familia Jonquil, de Lampton Park; una oportunidad aparece en su camino de manera inesperada: le ofrecen ser la dama de compañía de la condesa viuda. Sin embargo, no es fácil vivir allí ocupando su posición, pues no es un miembro del servicio pero tampoco forma parte de la familia....
100) Well played
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"Another laugh-out-loud romantic comedy featuring kilted musicians, Renaissance Faire tavern wenches, and an unlikely love story. Stacey is jolted when her friends Simon and Emily get engaged. She knew she was putting her life on hold when she stayed in Willow Creek to care for her sick mother, but it's been years now, and even though Stacey loves spending her summers pouring drinks and flirting with patrons at the local Renaissance Faire, she wants...
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