April Blood

Informationen zum Autor One of the world's foremost authorities on the Italian Renaissance, Lauro Martines was born in Chicago, has a Ph.D. from Harvard University, but has been living in London since 1970. Until recently he communted to Los Angeles, where he was Professor of European History at the University of California. He and his wife, the novelist Julia O'Faolain, lived for some years in Florence. His best known books include Lawyers and Statecraft in Renaissance Florence (1968), Society and History in English Renaissance Verse (1985), An Italian Renaissance Sextet: Six Tales in Historical Context (1994), Strong Words: Writing and Social Strain in the Italian Renaissance (2001), and Power and Imagination , now available in Pimlico. Klappentext One of the world's foremost authorities on the Italian Renaissance, Lauro Martines was born in Chicago, has a Ph.D. from Harvard University, but has been living in London since 1970. Until recently he communted to Los Angeles, where he was Professor of European History at the University of California. He and his wife, the novelist Julia O'Faolain, lived for some years in Florence. His best known books include Lawyers and Statecraft in Renaissance Florence (1968), Society and History in English Renaissance Verse (1985), An Italian Renaissance Sextet: Six Tales in Historical Context (1994), Strong Words: Writing and Social Strain in the Italian Renaissance (2001), and Power and Imagination , now available in Pimlico. Zusammenfassung In April 1478, a plot to murder the two heads of the powerful Medici family dramatically miscarried.

Product details

• Authors: Lauro Martines, Martines Lauro
• Publisher: Pimlico
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2004
• EAN: 9780712667876
• ISBN: 978-0-7126-6787-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Non-fiction book; HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, Italy, CE period up to c 1500, c 1000 CE to c 1500, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, 15th century, c 1400 to c 1499, Social and cultural history, c 1400 to c 1499 (period of the Italian Renaissance)