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422 pages : map ; 24 cm
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English
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"International bestselling author Guy Gavriel Kay's latest work is set in a world evoking early Renaissance Italy and offers an extraordinary cast of characters whose lives come together through destiny, love, and ambition. In a chamber overlooking the nighttime waterways of a maritime city, a man looks back on his youth and the people who shaped his life. Danio Cerra's intelligence won him entry to a renowned school even though he was only the son...
23) A medieval mess
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Alex finds a strange pencil in his father's bag, and when the monster he draws with it comes to life disaster follows at the Renaissance fair.
24) The Renaissance
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48 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
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English
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First appearing as an anonymous serial in "Harper's Magazine" in 1895, "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc" was Mark Twain's final novel and was published as a complete work under his name in 1896. The novel is a stark departure from Twain's usual comic and satirical writings, which is why Twain insisted it initially be published anonymously so that the public would take it seriously. The work is told from the perspective of a fictionalized version...
27) Renaissance
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59 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
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An overview of the philosophy, inventions, art, government, religion, and daily life of the Renaissance.
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Hinges of history volume 6
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xxi, 341 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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From the inimitable and bestselling author Thomas Cahill, another popular history, focusing on the Renaissance and Reformation and how this innovative period changed the Western world.
30) La Celestina
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Letras hispánicas volume 4
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Español
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La presente versión teatral de La Celestina ha sido estimada como la primera versión dramática castellana que mantiene el sentido y estilo del antiguo teatro clásico, tanto en los caracteres como en el lenguaje. En muchos países de América la crítica, así como el público, apreció la medida en que la palabra y los personajes se corresponden cabalmente, como debe suceder en esta extraordinaria obra. La vitalidad del personaje central –la...
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x, 451 pages ; 24 cm
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"One of the most acclaimed artists of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston was a gifted novelist, playwright, and essayist. Drawn from three decades of her work, this anthology showcases her development as a writer, from her early pieces expounding on the beauty and precision of African American art to some of her final published works, covering the sensational trial of Ruby McCollum, a wealthy Black woman convicted in 1952 for killing a white...
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This book challenges the general assumption that William Shakespeare was the sole author of Hamlet. It is maintained that the plot line and the characters were drawn up by someone else. This someone is thought to have been a person of high rank, a feudal prince, in the Elizabethan society. Being a nobleman whose constant presence at Court was expected, he must have been familiar with life, gossip and intrigues of the Court. Furthermore, he had knowledge...
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289 pages ; 22 cm
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In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible.
Rome, 1605: After her mother's death, Artemisia Gentileschi had a stark choice: a life as a nun in a convent or a life grinding pigment for her father's paint. She chose paint. Artemisia became...
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1 videodisc (approximately 80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Meet the Silver Belles, five tap dancers who met as Harlem chorus girls in the 1930s. During the Harlem Renaissance they performed with legendary band leaders like Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington at the famed Apollo Theater and Cotton Club, and have rich stories to tell us about the history they made, illuminated by a trove of archival film and photos.
38) The Headswoman
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The Headswoman (1898) is a story by Kenneth Grahame. Although less popular than The Wind in the Willows (1908), which would go on to become not only a defining work of Edwardian English literature, but one of the most popular works of children's fiction in the world, The Headswoman is a humorous story of tradition and bureaucracy that brilliantly satirizes the ongoing debate around women's suffrage.
In the town of St. Radegonde, following the death...
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419 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 25 cm
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English
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"The period between 1492--resonant for a number of reasons--and 1571, when the Ottoman navy was defeated in the Battle of Lepanto, embraces what we know as the Renaissance, one of the most dynamic and creatively explosive epochs in world history. Here is the period that gave rise to so many great artists and figures, and which by its connection to its classical heritage enabled a redefinition, even reinvention, of human potential. It was a moment...
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