FS: Renaissance Italy History Books
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1. Boccaccio, Giovanni. Translated and edited by Anthony K. Cassell. The
Corbaccio.
2. Bondanella, Peter E. Machiavelli and the Art of Renaissance History.
3. Bortolon, Liana. Translated by C. J. Richards. Edited by Enzo Orlandi. The
Life, Times and Art of Leonardo.
4. Chiesa, Angela Ottino Della. Botticelli and His Contemporaries.
5. Chojnacki, Stanley. Women and Men in Renaissance Venice: Twelve Essays on
Patrician Society.
6. Kelso, Ruth. Doctrine for the Lady of the Renaissance.
7. Kristeller, Paul Oskar. Eight Philosophers of the Italian Renaissance.
8. Mueller, Reinhold C. Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice.
Volume II: The Venetian Money Market: Banks, Panics, and the Public Debt,
1200-1500.
9. Rosenberg, Charles M., editor. Art and Politics in Late Medieval and Early
Renaissance Italy: 1250-1500.
10. Villari, Pasquale. Translated by Linda Villari. The Life and Times of
Niccolo Machiavelli.
Boccaccio, Giovanni. Translated and edited by Anthony K. Cassell.
The Corbaccio.
Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1975.
First edition thus. Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Wear
and rubbing to the edges of the boards with bumping to the head and heel of the
spine. Dj has wear and rubbing along the edges with mark on back cover from
price sticker and some scuffing. Foxing to the edges of pages. 194 pages with
notes, appendix (Sumptuary Statues of 1355 and 1356), bibliography of works
consulted, bibliographies of manuscripts and editions of the Corbaccio, some
modern English translations of Boccaccio's works, some general studies on
Boccaccio in English, and index. One of the first English translations of
Giovanni Boccaccio's bawdy classic the "evil crow." $18.00.
Bondanella, Peter E.
Machiavelli and the Art of Renaissance History.
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1973.
1st edition. Very good hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing
to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj is worn and
rubbed along egdes of covers with some minor closed tears (3 half inch tears
along the front and back upper edge), is faded along spine and edges, and is
scuffed on covers. Light foxing to edges of pages. 186 pages with endnotes,
appendix of Machiavelli's works, and index. A study of the Niccolo
Machiavelli's writings in terms of literary style and his use of "portraiture
of historical characters" in his works, both fictional and non-fictional.
$30.00.
Bortolon, Liana. Translated by C. J. Richards. Edited by Enzo Orlandi.
The Life, Times and Art of Leonardo.
New York: Crescent Books, 1965.
First English language edition. Very good quarto hardcover with illustrated
boards in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of the boards with some
bumping to the heel and head of the spine. Dj has wear and rubbing along the
edges with scuffing to covers. Dj has a couple of very small tears along the
edges. Edges of pages, dj, and panels have some light foxing. 75 pages with
illustrations. A nice concise work on the art and inventions of the great
Renaissance Florentine man, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). $10.00.
Chiesa, Angela Ottino Della.
Botticelli and His Contemporaries.
London: B. T. Batsford Limited, 1960.
First English edition (Italian was 1960). Good large quarto hardcover in fair
dust jacket. Wear and rubbing to the edges of the boards with bumping to the
head and heel of the spine and on the corners of panels. Dj has wear and
rubbing along the edges with many small tears including one inch tears on the
head and heel of the spine and on the upper edge of the back cover and the
lower edge of the front cover. Some browning to the edge of the dj along with
scuffing and scratching. Foxing to edges of pages and dj. Gift inscription of
previous owner on the front free endpaper. 99 pages with color illustrations
and index. A handsomeli illustrated work featuring brief looks at the life and
art of Fra Angelico, Baldovinetti, BotticelliAndrea del Castagno, Piero della
Drancesca, Ghirlandaio, Benozzo Goxxoli, Filippino Lippi, Masaccio, Masolino,
Giovanni di Paolo, Pesellino, Pollaiolo, Paolo Uccello, Sassetta, and Domenico
Veneziano. $20.00.
Chojnacki, Stanley.
Women and Men in Renaissance Venice: Twelve Essays on Patrician Society.
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
First paperback edition. Very good trade paperback. Light wear and minor
rubbing to edges of covers with some light scuffing to the covers also. Clean,
unmarked copy in tight binding. 370 pages with endnotes, figures,
bibliography, and index. A collection of twelve essays on matters of
Renaissance Venetian society, class, culture, and gender. The essays are: 1.
Gender and the Early Renaissance State, 2. Marriage Regulation in Venice,
1420-1535, 3. From Trousseau to Groomgift, 4. Getting Back the Dowry, 5.
Patrician Women in Early Renaissance Venice, 6. Dowries and Kinsmen, 7. The
Power of Love: Wives and Husbands, 8. "The Most Serious Duty": Motherhood,
Gender, and Patrician Culture, 9. Measuring Adulthood: Adolescence and Gender,
10. Kinship Ties and Young Patricians, 11. Political Adulthood, 12. Subaltern
Patriarchs: Patrician Bachelors. $12.00.
Kelso, Ruth.
Doctrine for the Lady of the Renaissance.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1956.
First edition. Good quarto hardcover in green binding with gilt lettering
without dust jacket. Wear and rubbing to the edges of the boards with bumping
to the head and heel of the spine and on the corners of the covers. Fading
along the spine with some light scuffing to covers. Bookplate on front free
endpaper. Pages are lightly browned but not brittle. A few pencil marks and
notes in text. 475 pages with endnotes, bibliography, index to Treatises on
the Lady, supplementary index to treatises on the Gentleman, index to text and
notes. The rare first edition of this work on Renaissnace thought and writings
on ladies and their manners. There are chapters on women in the scheme of
things, training, studies, vocation, love and beauty, and the love at court.
$80.00.
Kristeller, Paul Oskar.
Eight Philosophers of the Italian Renaissance.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1964.
First edition. Good octavo hardcover in fair dust jacket. Wear and rubbing to
the edges of the boards with bumping to the head and heel of the spine. Dj has
heavy wear and rubbing along the edges with many small tears and chips missing
and some scuffing. Dj has chips missing from the head and heel of the spine
and on the corners with some pencil notes on the back cover. Dj also has heavy
soiling. Pencil notes on rear endpapers with black writing whited out on the
front free endpaper and a pencil note on the back of the half-title page. Some
underlining in the text in pencil with a few notes. Foxing to page edges. 194
pages with appendix (the Medieval antecedents of Renaissance Humanism),
endnotes, bibliographical survey, and index. A study of eight Italian
Renaissance Humanists and their philosophies and writings. The philosophers
are Petrarch, Valla, Ficino, Pico, Pomponazzi, Telesio, Patrizi, and Bruno. A
decent reading copy. $15.00.
Mueller, Reinhold C.
Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice. Volume II: The Venetian
Money Market: Banks, Panics, and the Public Debt, 1200-1500.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
First edition. Good octavo hardcover in blue cloth without dust jacket. Wear
and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to the heel of the spine. Covers
are scuffed with a few light white streaks on front and back panels and spine.
Front panel is slightly bowed. Half-title page has red "not authorized for
sale" stampmark on it. 711 pages with illustrations, tables, graphs,
footnotes, 10 appendices (1. local deposit bankers and partnerships, 2.
failures of local deposit banks, 3. foreign exchange in Venice during the
Datini Years 1383-1410, 4. moneys of account revisited, 5. foreign investors in
Venetian credit institutions, 6. rates of interest on credit sales 1383-1405,
7. documents, 8. genealogies of the Gaddi, Soranzo, and Priuli families, 9. the
value of money and the cost of living, 10. builders' wages from the late
trecento to the early cinquecento), bibliography, and index. This is the
scarce and detailed companion piece to the book, Coins and Moneys of Account by
Mueller and Frederic C. Lane, in their study of Money and Banking in Medieval
and Renaissance Venice. $85.00.
Rosenberg, Charles M., editor.
Art and Politics in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy: 1250-1500.
Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1990.
1st edition. Very good hardcover without dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing
to edges of the boards with some bumping to head and heel of spine. 231 pages
with illustrations, endnotes after each essay, and a list of contributors. A
collection of 12 papers presented at the Notre Dame conference in medieval
studies by such famous scholars as Richard Trexler, John Larner, and Jonathan
B. Riess. There are articles on "Republicanism and Tyranny in Signorelli's
Rule of the Antichrist," "Piety and Politics in the Art of Giovanni Bellini,"
"A Tale of Two Cities: Verona and Padua in the late Middle Ages," and
"Insignia of Power: The Use of Heraldic and Paraheraldic Devices by Italian
Princes, c. 1350-c. 1500." $25.00.
Villari, Pasquale. Translated by Linda Villari.
The Life and Times of Niccolo Machiavelli.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, no date given.
Third impression . The first edition of this work was published in 1878. Fair
hardcover without dust jacket. heavy bumping to the head and heel of spine and
corners of panels with heavy rubbing and wear to edges of covers. Tears in
binding along the spine on both the front and back covers. Heavy scuffing to
covers. Tear in hinge between front free endpapers. Foxing on page edges and
endpapers. Browning of pages. 547 pages with footnotes and 12 appendices
(1-11 are letters of the Ten, 12. machiavelli's report on the institution of
the new miltia). A classic biography of the Renaissance Florentine statesman
and writer, Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527). This work covers from his birth
in 1469 to his dismissal from the office of secretary of the Ten in 1512.
$20.00.
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