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Subjects: “…Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519.…”
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The Da Vinci code by Brown, Dan, 1964-

Subjects: “…Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 Manuscripts Fiction.…”

And then came dance : the women who led Volynsky to ballet's magic kingdom / by Volynskiĭ, A. L., 1863-1926

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- A Note on the Text -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Akim Volynsky's Female Portraits -- PART ONE: BODIES IN SITU -- Russian Women: A Retrospective (1923) -- 1) Amoureuses and Druidesses -- 2) A Belated Druidess (on Lyubov Gurevich) -- 3) The Sylph (on Zinaida Gippius) -- 4) Pandora's Box (on Ida Rubinstein) -- 5) A Bouquet (on Lou Andreas-Salome and others) -- Amor (co-authored with Lou Andreas-Salome, 1897) -- The Mona Lisa (from Volynsky's book: Leonardo da Vinci (1898) -- 1) Nastasya Filippovna (1900) -- 2) The Infernal Woman (Grushenka) (from Volynsky's writings on Dostoevsky 1901) -- Madonna (Introduction to the Russian edition of Otto Weininger's Sex and Character, 1909) -- BODIES IN MOTION -- The 'Russkaya' (Ekaterina Geltser) (1912) -- The Young Generation (1912) -- The Dancing of Isadora Duncan (1913) -- The Dancing of Anna Pavlova (1913) -- Three Ballerinas (Pavlova, Preobrazhenskaya, Kshesinskaya) (1913) -- A Legendary Talent (Agrippina Vaganova) (1913) -- The Russian Dancer (1913) -- The Pupil of Mariya Savina (Olga Spesivtsva) (1913) -- The Performances at Krasnoe Selo (1913) -- The Broken Harp (Olga Preobrazhenskaya) (1913) -- The Snowflake (Olga Spesivtseva) (1913) -- Anna Pavlova (1914) -- A Pre-eminent Talent (Mathilda Kshesinskaya) (1914) -- Vain Precautions (Tamara Karsavina) (1915) -- Kseniya Makletsova (1915) -- Moscow and Petrograd (Geltser, Makletsova, et al) (1915) -- Agrippina Vaganova's Farewell Benefit (1916) -- The Testing of a Ballerina (Elena Liukom) (1916) -- Yuliya Sedova's Farewell Benefit (1916) -- Tamara Karsavina (1916) -- Vera Karalli (1916) -- Liubov Egorova's Final Benefit Performance (1917) -- The Classical Dancer (1922) -- Elsa Vill (1922) -- Classical Fouette and Leonardo da Vinci's Contrapposto (1922) -- Giselle and The Little Humpbacked Horse (Elena Liukom) (1922) -- The Animated Flower (1923) -- Ballet's Lily (Elizaveta Gerdt) (1923) -- Kseniya Petrovna Makletsova (1923) -- Elena Liukom (1923) -- Our Moscow Guests (Viktorina Kriger) (1923) -- The Gemstones of Benvenuto Cellini (1923) -- On the Russian Ballet (1923) -- The Fairy of Deer Park (Mathilda Kshesinskaya) (1924).…”

1434 : the year a magnificent Chinese fleet sailed to Italy and ignited the Renaissance / by Menzies, Gavin

Table of Contents: “…Setting the scene -- A last voyage -- The emperor's ambassador -- The fleets are prepared for the voyage to the Barbarians -- Zheng He's navigators' calculation of latitude and longitude -- Voyage to the Red Sea -- Cairo and the Red Sea-Nile Canal -- China ignites the Renaissance -- To the Venice of Niccolo Da Conti -- Paolo Toscanelli's Florence -- Toscanelli meets the Chinese ambassador -- Columbus's and Magellan's world maps -- The world maps of Johannes Schoner, Martin Waldseemuller, and Admiral Zheng He -- Toscanell's new astronomy -- The Florentine mathematicians: Toscanelli, Nicholas of Cusa, and Regiomontanus -- Leon Battista Alberti and Leonard Da Vinci -- Leonardo Da Vinci and Chinese inventions -- Leonardo, Di Giorgio, Taccola, and Alberti -- Silk and rice -- Grand canals: China and Lombardy -- Firearms and steel -- Printing -- China's contribution to the Renaissance -- China's legacy -- Tragedy on the high seas: Zheng He's fleet destroyed by a Tsunami -- The conquistadores' inheritance: Our Lady of Victory.…”

Playthings in early modernity : party games, word games, mind games /

Table of Contents: “…Winerock -- Ludic intermingling/ludic discrimination : women's card playing and visual proscriptions in early modern Europe / Antonella Fenech Kroke -- Leonardo da Vinci, parody, and pictorial magic / Chriscinda Henry -- Letter games : Machiavelli and Guicciardini in carnivalesque correspondence / Sergius Kodera -- The rules of passion and pastime : the game of lurch in a late Renaissance poem / Manfred Zollinger -- "Sportes and pastimes, done by number" : mathematical games in early modern England / Jessica Marie Otis -- Predictive play : wheels of fortune in the early modern lottery book / Jessen Kelly -- Virtuous vices : Giuseppe Maria Mitelli's gambling prints and the social mapping of leisure and gender in post-tridentine Bologna / Patricia Rocco -- Trading and trick taking in the Dutch republic : Pasquin's wind cards and the South Sea bubble / Joyce Goggin -- The problem of excessive play : Renaissance strategies of ludic governmentality / Andreas Hermann Fischer -- Imaginary cartographies and commercial commodities : geography and playing cards in early modern England / Serina Patterson -- Land of elusion : Portuguese perceptions and the matter of play and gaming in Vijayanagara / Elke Rogersdotter -- Visual frames and breaking the rules of the reconquista : chess and Alfonso X, El Sabio's Libro de ajedrez, dados y tablas / Nhora Lucía Serrano -- The prisoners' dilemma : strategies and ruses in the inquisitorial jails of early modern Cuenca / Patrick J. …”
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The mapmaker's quest : depicting new worlds in Renaissance Europe / by Buisseret, David

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Die Evolution des Menschen / by Junker, Thomas

Table of Contents: “…Das Othello-SyndromMachiavelli und Leonardo da Vinci: Intelligenz als Anpassung; Schädelmessungen; Leonardo'sche Intelligenz; Machiavelli'sche Intelligenz; Fleisch, Feuer und die Entstehung der ersten Menschen; Sexualität und Strategien der Reproduktion; Warum Sexualität?…”
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The ocean reader : history, culture, politics /

Table of Contents: “…: Journal of a Sailing Voyage "From a Teen's Point of View" / Katrina Bercaw -- The Pliny Deep / Pliny the Elder -- Leonardo's Notes on the Ocean / Leonardo da Vinci -- The Discovery of the Gulf Stream / Benjamin Franklin -- Celestial Navigation for the People / Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch -- The Ocean and the Atmosphere / Matthew Fontaine Maury -- Hurrah for the Dredge! …”
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