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Niccolo Machiavelli History Of Florence And Of The Affairs Of Italy (fiscle part-4)

Historisches
Englisch
161663 Wörter
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Irruption Of Northern People Upon The Roman Territories--Visigoths--Barbarians Called in by Stilicho--Vandals In Africa--Franks And Burgundians Give Their Names To France And Burgundy--The Huns--Angles Give The Name To England--Attila, King Of The Huns, In italy--Genseric Takes Rome--The Lombards. The People Who Inhabit The Northern Parts Beyond The Rhine And The Danube, Living In a Healthy And Prolific Region, Frequently Increase To Such Vast Multitudes That Part Of Them Are Compelled to Abandon Their Native Soil, And Seek A Habitation In other Countries. [mehr]

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Niccolo Machiavelli History Of Florence And Of The Affairs Of Italy (fiscle part-IV)

From The Earliest Times To The Death Of Lorenzo The Magnificent

Historisches
Englisch
166136 Wörter
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History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy is an historical account by Niccolò Machiavelli. Toward the end of 1520, the Cardinal Giulio of Medici, later Pope Clement VII, offered Machiavelli the appointment to write a history of Florence. Although Machiavelli was reluctant to accept, accepting was his only way to regain the good graces of the Medici who had regained power and were in a position to offer him employment and protection. Doing the history also provided a way for Machiavelli’s views to become the “official” history of Florentine and Italian affairs. Once completed, the work was presented officially to Giulio, now Pope, in May of 1526. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia by Karen Merline.) [mehr]

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Jacob Burckhardt The Civilization Of The Renaissance In italy

Religion
Englisch
151786 Wörter
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This Work Bears The Title Of An Essay In the Strictest Sense Of The Word. No One Is [mehr]

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Jacob Burckhardt The Civilization Of The Renaissance In italy

Politikwissenschaft
Englisch
150865 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
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This Work Bears The Title Of An Essay In the Strictest Sense Of The Word. No One Is More Conscious Than The Writer With What Limited means And Strength He Has Addressed himself To A Task So Arduous. And Even If He Could Look With Greater Confidence Upon His Own Researches, He Would Hardly Thereby Feel More Assured of The Approval Of Competent Judges. To Each [mehr]

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John Addington Symonds Renaissance In Italy Volume 1 (Of 7)

Fremdsprachen lernen
Englisch
177179 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
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The Word Renaissance Has Of Late Years Received A More Extended Significance Than That Which Is Implied In Our English Equivalent--The Revival Of Learning. We Use It To Denote The Whole Transition From The Middle Ages To The Modern World; And Though It Is Possible To Assign Certain Limits To The Period During Which This Transition Took Place, We Cannot Fix On Any Dates So Positively As To Say--Between This Year And That The Movement Was Accomplished. To Do So Would Be Like Trying To Name The Days On Which Spring In Any Particular Season Began And Ended Yet We Speak Of Spring As Different From Winter And From Summer. The Truth Is, That In Many Senses We Are Still In Mid-Renaissance. [mehr]

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JACOB BURCKHARDT THE CIVILIZATION OF THE RENAISSANCE IN ITALY

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Englisch
151232 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
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Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (May 25, 1818 – August 8, 1897) was a historian of art and culture, [mehr]

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MME DE STAEL CORINNE, VOLUME 1 (OF 2) OR ITALY

Belletristik
Englisch
96098 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
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In Lady Blennerhassett's enthusiastic and encyclopædic book on Madame de Stael she quotes approvingly Sainte-Beuve's phrase that "with Corinne Madame de Stael ascended the Capitol." I forget in which of his many dealings with an author who, as he remarks in the "Coppet-and-Weimar" causeries, was "an idol of his youth and one that he never renounced," this fancy occurs. It must probably have been in one of his early essays; for in his later and better, Sainte-Beuve was not wont to give way to the little flashes and crackles of conceit and epigram which many Frenchmen and some Englishmen think to be criticism. [mehr]

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