Product Description Manfredo Tafuri (1935–1994) is acknowledged as one of Italy’s most influential architectural historians. In his final work, Interpreting the Renaissance, published here in English for the first time (the Italian edition, Ricerca del Rinascimento, appeared in 1992), Tafuri analyzes Renaissance architecture from a variety of perspectives, exploring questions t...(展开全部)

A beautifully illustrated history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most important and influential patrons the princely rulers of Italy's dynastic states and their families. From the late Middle Ages, the independent Italian city-states were taken over by powerful families who installed themselves as dynastic rulers. Inspired by the humanists, the princes of fift...(展开全部)

弗朗索瓦・傅勒： 生于1927，卒于1997，卓越的学者和思想家，他的一生享誉无数。前不久，他被评为法兰西学院“不朽的四十位学者”之一。他担任过高等社会科学学院的院长，被国际学术界称为“法国大革命史研究的领军人物”，托克维尔研究专家等等，他的学术影响远远超越了法国，遍及世界，芝加哥大学聘他为“社会思想”教授，他是美国艺术和科学研究院的院士，是哈佛大学和特拉维夫大学的名誉博士，等等。这些荣誉归功于他对法国大革命的研究成就，在这个领域，他几乎是无可替代的巨人，芝加哥社会思想委员会主席耐丹・塔可夫认为“没有任何人能比他更负责任地复活了法国的自由思想”。《思考法国大革命》这本书可以说是他最重要的学术著作。

The French Revolution is an historical event unlike any other. It is more than just a topic of intellectual interest: it has become part of a moral and political heritage. But after two centuries, this central event in French history has usually been thought of in much the same terms as it was by its contemporaries. There have been many accounts of the French Revolution, and th...(展开全部)

The 12th-century bishop Otto of Freising was an outstanding historian of his century. "The Two Cities" was his masterwork, spanning in time from Adam and Eve to the coming of the last days - which he believed were imminent. In form and philosophy it stands as a model of medieval historiography. Related to the court of the Holy Roman Empire, Otto was able to observe the signific...(展开全部)

The disciplines of classical scholarship were established in their modern form between 1300 and 1600, and Virgil was a test case for many of them. This book is concerned with what became of Virgil in this period, how he was understood, and how his poems were recycled. What did readers assume about Virgil in the long decades between Dante and Sidney, Petrarch and Spenser, Boccac...(展开全部)

This book develops a fresh and challenging perspective on the city. Drawing on a wide and diverse range of material and texts, it argues that too much contemporary urban theory is based on nostalgia for a humane, face-to-face and bounded city. Amin and Thrift maintain that the traditional divide between the city and the rest of the world has been perforated through urban encroa...(展开全部)