Giovannino Pestacacca
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Discourse On The State Of The Jews
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Author : Simone Luzzatto
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2019-07-08
Discourse On The State Of The Jews written by Simone Luzzatto and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-08 with History categories.
In 1638, a small book of no more than 92 pages in octavo was published “appresso Gioanne Calleoni” under the title “Discourse on the State of the Jews and in particular those dwelling in the illustrious city of Venice.” It was dedicated to the Doge of Venice and his counsellors, who are labelled “lovers of Truth.” The author of the book was a certain Simone (Simḥa) Luzzatto, a native of Venice, where he lived and died, serving as rabbi for over fifty years during the course of the seventeenth century. Luzzatto’s political thesis is simple and, at the same time, temerarious, if not revolutionary: Venice can put an end to its political decline, he argues, by offering the Jews a monopoly on overseas commercial activity. This plan is highly recommendable because the Jews are “wellsuited for trade,” much more so than others (such as “foreigners,” for example). The rabbi opens his argument by recalling that trade and usury are the only occupations permitted to Jews. Within the confines of their historical situation, the Venetian Jews became particularly skilled at trade with partners from the Eastern Mediterranean countries. Luzzatto’s argument is that this talent could be put at the service of the Venetian government in order to maintain – or, more accurately, recover – its political importance as an intermediary between East and West. He was the first to define the role of the Jews on the basis of their economic and social functions, disregarding the classic categorisation of Judaism’s alleged privileged religious status in world history. Nonetheless, going beyond the socio-economic arguments of the book, it is essential to point out Luzzatto’s resort to sceptical strategies in order to plead in defence of the Venetian Jews. It is precisely his philosophical and political scepticism that makes Luzzatto’s texts so unique. This edition aims to grant access to his works and thought to English-speaking readers and scholars. By approaching his texts from this point of view, the editors hope to open a new path in research into Jewish culture and philosophy that will enable other scholars to develop new directions and new perspectives, stressing the interpenetration between Jews and the surrounding Christian and secular cultures.
The Power Of The Dog
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Author : Don Winslow
language : en
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Release Date : 2005-04-26
The Power Of The Dog written by Don Winslow and has been published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04-26 with Fiction categories.
From the New York Times bestselling author, here is the first novel in the explosive Power of the Dog series—an action-filled look at the drug trade that takes you deep inside a world riddled with corruption, betrayal, and bloody revenge. Book One of the Power of the Dog Series Set about ten years prior to The Cartel, this gritty novel introduces a brilliant cast of characters. Art Keller is an obsessive DEA agent. The Barrera brothers are heirs to a drug empire. Nora Hayden is a jaded teenager who becomes a high-class hooker. Father Parada is a powerful and incorruptible Catholic priest. Callan is an Irish kid from Hell’s kitchen who grows up to be a merciless hit man. And they are all trapped in the world of the Mexican drug Federación. From the streets of New York City to Mexico City and Tijuana to the jungles of Central America, this is the war on drugs like you’ve never seen it.
Print And Power In Early Modern Europe 1500 1800
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Author : Nina Lamal
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-06-08
Print And Power In Early Modern Europe 1500 1800 written by Nina Lamal and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-08 with History categories.
Print, in the early modern period, could make or break power. This volume addresses one of the most urgent and topical questions in early modern history: how did European authorities use a new medium with such tremendous potential? The eighteen contributors develop new perspectives on the relationship between the rise of print and the changing relationships between subjects and rulers by analysing print’s role in early modern bureaucracy, the techniques of printed propaganda, genres, and strategies of state communication. While print is often still thought of as an emancipating and disruptive force of change in early modern societies, the resulting picture shows how instrumental print was in strengthening existing power structures. Contributors: Renaud Adam, Martin Christ, Jamie Cumby, Arthur der Weduwen, Nora Epstein, Andreas Golob, Helmer Helmers, Jan Hillgärtner, Rindert Jagersma, Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba, Nina Lamal, Margaret Meserve, Rachel Midura, Gautier Mingous, Ernesto E. Oyarbide Magaña, Caren Reimann, Chelsea Reutchke, Celyn David Richards, Paolo Sachet, Forrest Strickland, and Ramon Voges.
The Disperata From Medieval Italy To Renaissance France
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Author : Gabriella Scarlatta
language : en
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Release Date : 2017-08-31
The Disperata From Medieval Italy To Renaissance France written by Gabriella Scarlatta and has been published by Medieval Institute Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
This study explores how the themes of the disperata genre - including hopelessness, death, suicide, doomed love, collective trauma, and damnations - are creatively adopted by several generations of poets in Italy and France, to establish a tradition that at times merges with, and at times subverts, Petrarchism.
Memoirs Of Henrietta Caracciolo
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Author : Enrichetta Caracciolo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1865
Memoirs Of Henrietta Caracciolo written by Enrichetta Caracciolo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1865 with Convents categories.
Laboratories Of Art
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Author : Sven Dupré
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business
Release Date : 2014-04-25
Laboratories Of Art written by Sven Dupré and has been published by Springer Science & Business this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-25 with Science categories.
This book explores the interconnections and differentiations between artisanal workshops and alchemical laboratories and between the arts and alchemy from Antiquity to the eighteenth century. In particular, it scrutinizes epistemic exchanges between producers of the arts and alchemists. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the term laboratorium uniquely referred to workplaces in which ‘chemical’ operations were performed: smelting, combustion, distillation, dissolution and precipitation. Artisanal workshops equipped with furnaces and fire in which ‘chemical’ operations were performed were also known as laboratories. Transmutational alchemy (the transmutation of all base metals into more noble ones, especially gold) was only one aspect of alchemy in the early modern period. The practice of alchemy was also about the chemical production of things--medicines, porcelain, dyes and other products as well as precious metals and about the knowledge of how to produce them. This book uses examples such as the Uffizi to discuss how Renaissance courts established spaces where artisanal workshops and laboratories were brought together, thus facilitating the circulation of materials, people and knowledge between the worlds of craft (today’s decorative arts) and alchemy. Artisans became involved in alchemical pursuits beyond a shared material culture and some crafts relied on chemical expertise offered by scholars trained as alchemists. Above all, texts and books, products and symbols of scholarly culture played an increasingly important role in artisanal workshops. In these workplaces a sort of hybrid figure was at work. With one foot in artisanal and the other in scholarly culture this hybrid practitioner is impossible to categorize in the mutually exclusive categories of scholar and craftsman. By the seventeenth century the expertise of some glassmakers, silver and goldsmiths and producers of porcelain was just as based in the worlds of alchemical and bookish learning as it was grounded in hands-on work in the laboratory. This book suggests that this shift in workshop culture facilitated the epistemic exchanges between alchemists and producers of the decorative arts.
Bramante S Tempietto The Roman Renaissance And The Spanish Crown
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Author : Jack Freiberg
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-11-10
Bramante S Tempietto The Roman Renaissance And The Spanish Crown written by Jack Freiberg and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-10 with Architecture categories.
This groundbreaking book situates Bramante's Tempietto at the center of an arts program that exalted Spain's quest for Christian hegemony.
La Lettere Di Michelangelo Buonarroti
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Author : Gaetano Milanesi
language : it
Publisher: Рипол Классик
Release Date : 2014
La Lettere Di Michelangelo Buonarroti written by Gaetano Milanesi and has been published by Рипол Классик this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with History categories.
The Story Of Cupid And Psyche
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Author : Apuleius
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1903
The Story Of Cupid And Psyche written by Apuleius and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1903 with Cupid and Psyche (Tale) categories.
Italian Maiolica
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Author : Catherine Hess
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 1989-04-06
Italian Maiolica written by Catherine Hess and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-04-06 with Art categories.
The Museum’s outstanding collection of maiolica is significant because most of the major pottery centers, maiolica forms, and styles are represented. This current catalogue presents the collection in a chronological progression according to stylistic trends. Lavish color plates accompany the detailed entries