Humanist educational treatises /

The architectural treatise in the Italian Renaissance : architectural invention, ornament, and literary culture / by Payne, Alina Alexandra

A short treatise on the wealth and poverty of nations / by Serra, Antonio, active 1613

Table of Contents: “…Front Matter; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; A Man, his Book, and the Renaissance; Commerce and the Common Good; The Classical Context; The Civil Context; Medicean Economics; Good and Bad Government in Serra's Naples; Antonio Serra's Breve trattato; Historiography and Relevance; The Breve trattato's Model of Economic Development; Critical Bibliography; Editions of the Breve trattato; Extracts from the Breve trattato; Works on Serra and his Breve trattato; A Note on the Text; Main Matter -- A SHORT TREATISE by Antonio Serra; Preface; PART ONE.…”
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A short treatise on the wealth and poverty of nations (1613) / by Serra, Antonio, active 1613

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The Francis trilogy of Thomas of Celano : the life of Saint Frances, the remembrance of the desire of a soul, the treatise on the miracles of Saint Francis / by Thomas, of Celano, fl. 1257

[A briefe collection or epitomie of all the notable and material things contained in the hystorie of Guicchiardine : being verie necessarie for Parliament, councell, treatises, and negotiations.] by Guicciardini, Francesco, 1483-1540

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Benedict XIV and the enlightenment : art, science, and spirituality /

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The eloquent body : dance and humanist culture in fifteenth-century Italy / by Nevile, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Dance and society -- The dance treatises and humanist ideals -- Eloquent movement--eloquent prose -- Dance and the intellect -- Order and virtue -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1, transcription and translation of MS from Florence, Biblioteca nazionale Magl. …”

The eloquent body : dance and humanist culture in fifteenth-century Italy / by Nevile, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Dance and society -- The dance treatises and humanist ideals -- Eloquent movement--eloquent prose -- Dance and the intellect -- Order and virtue -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1, transcription and translation of MS from Florence, Biblioteca nazionale Magl. …”
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The pulpit and the press in Reformation Italy / by Michelson, Emily

Table of Contents: “…Where sermons mattered -- Mendicants -- Sermons and diocesan reform -- Treatises -- The generation after Trent -- Epilogue: sermons and their reception.…”
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Practice and theory in the Italian Renaissance workshop : Verrocchio and the epistemology of making art / by Neilson, Christina

Table of Contents: “…Verrocchio's Medici Tomb: art as treatise; 3. Bridging dimensions: Verrocchio's Christ and Saint Thomas as absent presence; 4. …”
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Piero della Francesca: Artist and Man. by Banker, James R.

Table of Contents: “…Piero in Urbino, 1475 -- 77 -- Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels -- The Senigallia Madonna and Child -- The Treatise On Perspective in Painting -- The Composition of On Perspective in Painting -- The Contents of On Perspective in Painting -- The Audience for the Treatise -- The Relationship of the Treatise to Piero's Paintings -- 13. …”
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Double entry : how the merchants of Venice created modern finance / by Gleeson-White, Jane

Table of Contents: “…Accounting: our first communications technology -- Merchants and mathematics -- Luca Pacioli: from Sansepolcro to celebrity -- Pacioli's landmark bookkeeping treatise of 1494 -- Venetian double entry goes viral -- Double entry morphs: the industrial revolution and the birth of a profession -- Double entry and capitalism; chicken and egg? …”

On the Causes of the Greatness and Magnificence of Cities. by Symcox, Geoffrey

Table of Contents: “…On the Causes That Maintain a City's Greatness -- A Treatise. How Many People Rome Might Have Contained at the Height of Its Greatness -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.…”
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On the causes of the greatness and magnificence of cities, 1588 / by Botero, Giovanni, 1540-1617

Table of Contents: “…On the Causes That Maintain a City's Greatness -- A Treatise. How Many People Rome Might Have Contained at the Height of Its Greatness.…”
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The Monarchia controversy : an historical study with accompanying translations of Dante Alighieri's Monarchia, Guido Vernani's Refutation of the Monarchia composed by Dante and Pop... by Cassell, Anthony K. 1941-2005

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Pliny and the Artistic Culture of the Italian Renaissance : the Legacy of the Natural History / by McHam, Sarah Blake

Table of Contents: “…The art history of a book on science -- Pliny's career and the scope of the Natural history : its reception in antiquity and the Middle Ages -- Pliny on ancient art : the contents of the Natural history, books 33-7 -- Petrarch's Pliny -- Following Petrarch : the widening influence of Pliny on fourteenth-century readers and artists -- Collecting, illuminating, and critiquing the Natural history in fifteenth-century Italy -- Alberti, Ghiberti, and the early Florentine response to Pliny -- Pliny as an inspiration for fifteenth-century humanists, educators, patrons, and artists in north Italy -- Pliny in print and in stone -- Mantegna and Leonardo strive to be a new Apelles -- Pliny helps spur the development of new subject matters -- The Plinian signature as a badge of prestige -- Pliny and the formation of art collections in Florence -- Laocoön, or Pliny vindicated -- Beyond Laocoön : Plinian anecdotes as inspiration for subjects and commissions -- Pliny's influence on early sixteenth-century theoretical writers -- Vasari and Pliny as historians of art -- Pliny's influence on theoretical treatises after Vasari -- Pliny's legacy.…”

Debating the stars in the Italian Renaissance : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem and its reception / by Akopyan, Ovanes

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Il riposo / by Borghini, Raffaello, active 16th century

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Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation /

Table of Contents: “…Armando Maggi: Tasso's Poetic Self-Commentary, His Dialogues, and a New Philosophical Syncretism: The Last Phase of the Renaissance Love Treatises -- Joseph Perna: Girolamo Mei, Early Opera, and Experience -- Lynn Westwater: "Sottoporsi agli occhi del mondo nelle stampe": Sarra Copia Sulam and the Venetian Press.…”
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