Books On Military Architecture Printed In Venice

Author : Paul Breman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004473874

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Books on Military Architecture Printed in Venice by Paul Breman Pdf

In the great days of Italian fortification literature – the century from Valle's first Venetian edition in 1524 to the appearance of Tensini in 1624 – Venice accounted for roughly as many titles as the rest of Europe together. Books on fortification were a natural for the enterprising printer-publishers of this city-state, free from the constraints of small-minded princes and their paranoid insistence on "state secrets". This annotated catalogue describes 350 books, published until the time when Venice ceased to be an independent state. It provides massive documentation taking into account the many "ghosts" created by misprints or over-zealous bibliographers and gives full collations, extensive annotations and locations of copies of all entries. An index of printers and a "bibliographie raisonnée" of the sources used, appear at the end. The thirty-five illustrations are chosen for their relevance to the subject and range from early bastion traces to emblematic portraits.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004290228

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Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World by Anonim Pdf

Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World brings together a diverse range of case studies to reconstruct the characteristics of specialist book production in the early modern period.

Author : Louis Sloos
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 2008 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047425885

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Warfare and the Age of Printing (4 vols.) by Louis Sloos Pdf

An important part of the Dutch national treasure of early printed books from before 1801 on military and related subjects is kept in military libraries and collections. This catalogue contains 10,000 books in twelve different languages dated 1500–1800 from nine different Defence institutions/collections, representing both Army and Navy. By far the largest collections are the property of the Royal Netherlands Army Museum in Delft and the Royal Netherlands Military Academy in Breda. A great if not substantial part of these books is especially of international significance because of the contents, the intrinsic value or as historical objects. It took eight years to trace and describe these books, all of which have been given extensive analytical bibliographic descriptions. The book is a project of the Royal Netherlands Army Museum, Delft

Author : Lauri Ramey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107035478

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A History of African American Poetry by Lauri Ramey Pdf

Offers a critical history of African American poetry from the transatlantic slave trade to present day hip-hop.

Author : Bibliographical Society of America
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UCSC:32106020977978

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The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America by Bibliographical Society of America Pdf

Author : Virginia Cox,Lisa Sampson
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781800084308

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Drama, Poetry and Music in Late-Renaissance Italy by Virginia Cox,Lisa Sampson Pdf

Leonora Bernardi (1559-1616), a gentlewoman of Lucca, was a highly regarded poet, dramatist and singer. She was active in the brilliant courts of Ferrara and Florence at a time when creative women enjoyed exceptional visibility in Italy. Like many such figures, she has since suffered historical neglect. Drama, Poetry and Music in Late-Renaissance Italy presents the first ever study of Bernardi’s life, and modern edition of her recently discovered literary corpus, which mostly exists in manuscript. Her writings appear in the original Italian with new English translations, scholarly notes, critical essays and contributions by Eric Nicholson, Eugenio Refini and Davide Daolmi. Based on new archival research, the substantial opening section reconstructs Bernardi’s unusually colourful life. Bernardi’s works reveal her connections with some of the most pioneering poets, dramatists and musicians of the day, including her mentor Angelo Grillo and the first opera librettist Ottavio Rinuccini. The second major section presents her pastoral tragicomedy Clorilli, one of the earliest secular dramatic works by a woman. It was apparently performed in the early 1590s at a Medici villa near Florence, before Grandduke Ferdinando I de’ Medici, and his consort Christine of Lorraine, but now exists in an enigmatic Venetian manuscript. The third section presents Bernardi’s secular and religious verse, which engaged with new trends in lyric and poetry for music, and was set by various key composers across Italy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Book collecting
ISBN : UOM:39015079911858

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The Book Collector by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sophia Psarra
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781787352391

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The Venice Variations by Sophia Psarra Pdf

From the myth of Arcadia through to the twenty-first century, ideas about sustainability – how we imagine better urban environments – remain persistently relevant, and raise recurring questions. How do cities evolve as complex spaces nurturing both urban creativity and the fortuitous art of discovery, and by which mechanisms do they foster imagination and innovation? While past utopias were conceived in terms of an ideal geometry, contemporary exemplary models of urban design seek technological solutions of optimal organisation. The Venice Variations explores Venice as a prototypical city that may hold unique answers to the ancient narrative of utopia. Venice was not the result of a preconceived ideal but the pragmatic outcome of social and economic networks of communication. Its urban creativity, though, came to represent the quintessential combination of place and institutions of its time. Through a discussion of Venice and two other works owing their inspiration to this city – Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities and Le Corbusier’s Venice Hospital – Sophia Psarra describes Venice as a system that starts to resemble a highly probabilistic ‘algorithm’, that is, a structure with a small number of rules capable of producing a large number of variations. The rapidly escalating processes of urban development around our big cities share many of the motivations for survival, shelter and trade that brought Venice into existence. Rather than seeing these places as problems to be solved, we need to understand how urban complexity can evolve, as happened from its unprepossessing origins in the marshes of the Venetian lagoon to the ‘model city’ that endured a thousand years. This book frees Venice from stereotypical representations, revealing its generative capacity to inform potential other ‘Venices’ for the future.

Author : Giles Mandelbrote
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123587292

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Out of Print & Into Profit by Giles Mandelbrote Pdf

Published to mark the centenary of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association, this is the first book to map out the history of the rare book trade in the twentieth century - the end of this period broadly coinciding with the end of an era in traditional bookselling and the arrival of the Internet. Twenty contributors describe and explain the ways in which booksellers acquired their stock and sold books to customers, bringing to life the personalities in this most individualistic of trades; and offer many insights into changes in taste and fashion in book collecting, during what was also a formative period for many of the world's most important research libraries, especially in North America.

Author : William Carew Hazlitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : English literature
ISBN : UOM:39015034599996

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Third and Final Series of Bibliographical Collections and Notes on Early English Literature, 1474-1700 by William Carew Hazlitt Pdf

Author : Vaughan Hart,Peter Hicks
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300075308

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Paper Palaces by Vaughan Hart,Peter Hicks Pdf

A collection of essays examining early editions of Vitruvius' writings and all the major Renaissance architectural treatises by authors such as Alberti, Di Giorgio, Colonna, Serlio, and Palladio. The authors look at the significance of the treaty in the Renaissance, and trace its decline in the late 17th century.

Author : Dragoş Cosmescu
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786497508

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Venetian Renaissance Fortifications in the Mediterranean by Dragoş Cosmescu Pdf

The Renaissance was a revolution of ideas, arts and sciences alike, with Italy at its center. Venice was among the first states to embrace new concepts in fortification, which would dominate military architecture for centuries. In the age of large galley fleets and an expanding Ottoman Empire, the mighty defenses of the Republic of Venice protected faraway territories in the Mediterranean, and some of the largest and best preserved Renaissance fortifications are found on the former Venetian islands. This book illustrates in detail the impressive defenses of Cyprus, Crete and Corfu, their design and their war record. Walled towns and fortresses were constructed to the latest standards of military technology, with walls capable of withstanding the largest armies and the longest sieges, including the longest in history--22 years.

Author : J. R. Hale
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1983-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826497925

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Renaissance War Studies by J. R. Hale Pdf

Beginning with the chapters on warfare in the first three volumes of the New Cambridge Modern History, Sir John Hale's writings on the subject present an original and rich assessment of war's place in Renaissance life and thought. The first section of this collection constitutes a major contribution to the study of Renaissance fortifications, their design, planning and execution, and their political as well as their military significance. The second deals with the recruitment and training of officers and men. In the third, contemporary reactions to war are analysed in a variety of social and intellectual contexts. The archival and literary sources drawn on are primarily Italian, in the second place English, but the imaginative scene is that of western Europe as a whole.

Author : Valentina Lepri
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789004398115

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Knowledge Transfer and the Early Modern University: Statecraft and Philosophy at the Akademia Zamojska (1595–1627) by Valentina Lepri Pdf

This book addresses the teaching and cultural activities of the Akademia Zamojska in the Early Modern Age. The main subject is the development of politics as a university discipline in this school and its relations with philosophical teaching.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art libraries
ISBN : UOM:39015063396512

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Art Libraries Journal by Anonim Pdf