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Between creating precious glass parts for one Professore Galileo Galilei’s astonishing invention and attending lavish parties at the Doge’s Palace, Sophia crosses paths with influential people, including one who could change her life forever. But in Venice, every secret has its price. Soon, Sophia must decide how much she is willing to pay for her family, the glass, and love. 

The renaissance was a time for change, renewal, rebirth. That’s what we were taught in school, but few of us really understand the complexities of the era. Generations of people don’t understand the bold moves that were made. The risks that were taken by ordinary people who created exceptional art, music, movements, and change are like none the world has yet seen.

Was ist Europa? 2000 Jahre Kulturgeschichte rasant und humorvoll erzählt John Hirst nimmt Europas Geschichte auseinander – und setzt sie auf überraschende Weise neu zusammen. Statt sich durch Jahrhunderte zu wühlen, ordnet er die Geschichte des Kontinents anhand thematischer Schwerpunkte...

Although the Counter-Reformation is sometimes also called the Catholic Reformation, the latter term properly refers to the set of measures of spiritual, theological and liturgical renewal with which the Catholic Church had attempted to reform its institutions even before the Council of Trent. During the Council of Constance, for example, the council fathers had already called for a reform "in the head and in the members", but it was only after the Protestant Reformation that this need became urgent, resulting in the application of the Tridentine conciliar provisions.

The Bawdy Bard: Shakespeare, sex, and the liberation of love In Shakespeare on Sex, listeners will discover William Shakespeare as they’ve never seen him before: a daring playwright determined to challenge Elizabethan sexual mores and champion the freedom of love.

Few women in history have inspired such contradictory reactions as Catherine de Medici. To her admirers, she was a brilliant stateswoman and a steadying force in an era of great religious conflict. To her enemies, she was something far darker: a scheming foreigner, an Italian serpent coiled at the heart of the French court. What almost everyone agreed on was that she was extraordinary.

Pendant des siècles, la République de Venise a défié les attentes. Bâtie sur des pilotis de bois enfoncés dans la vase, protégée par les marées et le commerce, elle s'est façonnée en une puissance souveraine qui a survécu aux royaumes, aux dynasties et aux empires. Venise est devenue la Reine de l'Adriatique—une république de marchands et de magistrats, d'amiraux et d'ambassadeurs. Ses galères naviguaient vers Constantinople et Alexandrie ; ses étendards flottaient sur la Crète et Chypre ; ses émissaires négociaient avec les papes, les sultans et les empereurs.

Two worlds moving toward an unavoidable reckoning. In the final years of the Inca Empire, Tawantinsuyu stands unrivaled-vast, disciplined, and bound together by sacred law. But when the Sapa Inca Huayna Capac dies unexpectedly, his sons, Atahualpa and Huáscar, are drawn into a ruthless civil war that will tear at the foundations of their world.

Un libro que obtuvo el prestigioso National Book Award en 2011 y el Premio Pulitzer en 2012. Hace cerca de seiscientos años, en 1417, un humanista italiano emprendió un viaje para visitar conventos alemanes en busca de manuscritos antiguos. En uno de ellos descubrió el único ejemplar que...

After the long period of cultural decline known as the Dark Ages, Europe experienced a rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and science and began to develop a vision of Western society that remains at the heart of Western civilization today. By placing the image of the Virgin...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The history books have cast Katherine of Aragon, the first queen of King Henry VIII of England, as the ultimate symbol of the Betrayed Woman, cruelly tossed aside in favor of her husband’s seductive mistress, Anne Boleyn. Katherine’s sister, Juana of Castile, wife...

From the inimitable bestselling author Thomas Cahill, another popular history—this one focusing on how the innovations of the Renaissance and the Reformation changed the Western world. A truly revolutionary book. In Volume VI of his acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill guides us...

In a life of extraordinary drama, Jane Boleyn was catapulted from relative obscurity to the inner circle of King Henry VIII. As powerful men and women around her became victims of Henry’s ruthless and absolute power, including her own husband and sister-in-law, Queen Anne Boleyn, Jane’s...

Si es así, ya está familiarizado con el Renacimiento, que supuso un renacimiento de las artes y las ciencias. Se produjeron grandes avances en varios campos y muchos hombres se hicieron un nombre creando obras maestras o desarrollando nuevas teorías, aunque para algunos fueran controvertidas. Esta completa guía profundiza en algunas de las figuras más célebres de la época e incluye algunas que quizá no sean tan conocidas. 

Sobre la turbulenta relación entre España y América y sus orígenes se ha escrito mucho, pero hasta ahora no habíamos podido disfrutar de las palabras de Eslava Galán para contarnos esta historia recurrente, llena de contradicciones, alianzas, traiciones y desencuentros. Detrás de la...

Desde los últimos años del siglo XV, la España de los Reyes Católicos conoce el resurgir de la vitalidad nacional. La victoria política deja también su impronta en lo cultural. Se abren las puertas a todo lo que signifique influjo exterior para asimilarlo, pero sin olvidar lo propiamente...

La revolución socioeconómica europea que lleva este nombre supone un nuevo despertar del clasicismo griego con una personalidad absolutamente inconfundible. Si el clasicismo helénico había sido el periodo de mayor esplendor estético de la antigüedad, el nuevo Renacimiento pretende expresar...

Ya hemos dicho que Flandes es la otra zona europea en donde surge el Renacimiento artístico, tanto desde el punto de vista cultural y filosófico, como puramente estético. Italia y Flandes son las cunas del Renacimiento europeo y en consecuencia también lo son del arte europeo de esta época...