Les oeuvres d'art de la renaissance italienne au Temple de Saint-Jean (Baptistère de Florence)

Abstract The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s symbolized black liberation and sophistication--the final shaking off of slavery, in the mind, spirit, and character of ...

David Basham argues that Paul and the Corinthians share a “system of associated commonplaces” about the Jerusalem temple. He proposes that when Paul applies temple language to the...

This work is a revealing combination of biographies and topical essays that describe the outstanding and often-overlooked contributions of women to the science, politics, and cultu...

In Renaissance humanism, difference was understood through a variety of paradigms that rendered particular kinds of bodies and minds disabled. A Cultural History of Disability in t...

The thirty years Carlo Goldoni spent in Paris hold an ambiguous place in his career. The preface to his autobiography explicitly draws attention to France as the site of his author...

The city of Firenze represents, for the variety of its artistic and architectural heritage, a kind of open-air museum. Works of art and monuments are mainly made of the rocks outcr...

This chapter focuses on the subject of the free or servile beginnings of Florence, and analyses the path taken by Machiavelli in the Discourses and the Histories. Despite historica...