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111 Questions on Islam: Samir Khalil Samir on Islam and the West
The terrorist attack on the Twin Towers, the Afghan conflict, waves of migration and the presence of twelve million Muslims in the European Union: these are just a few of the things that have helped contribute to a growing interest in Islam, its culture, and its followers. They awaken old and new questions about a religious, cultural, and political reality that 1,200,000,000 people consider themselves a part of. This book is the result of a series of extended interviews between an internationally acclaimed expert on Islam and two journalists who have dedicated themselves for many years to studying key themes of Islam and analyzing the coexistence between people of different faiths and cultures. How was Islam born? What does the Koran represent for Muslims? What relationship has developed between Islam and violence, between Islamic culture and the West? How can a real integration of Islam take place in European societies? What are the conditions for a constructive encounter between Christians and Muslims? Samir Khalil Samir--one of the world's leading experts on Islam--responds to these questions in an in-depth interview that can help one learn and judge for oneself, without prejudice or naivete. This is a contribution in the spirit of the realism needed in order to build adequate ways of living with those who have become our new neighbors..
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Michelangelo's David
Michelangelo’s classic David is one of the world’s most recognizable sculptures, a masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance that is also a pop-culture icon. In Michelangelo’s David, this timeless work is presented in an intriguing new light, with breathtaking original photographs and insightful writing. Antonio Paolucci, noted art historian and curator at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, revisits the biblical story to rediscover David’s personality, while reconstructing the milestones that marked Michelangelo’s creation of this magnificent work. Sumptuous photographs—some never before published—by renowned photographer Aurelio Amendola capture David’s precise carving, the elegant pose, and the grace of the modeling, revealing every detail of the statue as well as the wonder of the whole. .
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The Political Writings, New Edition
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Paintings in the Uffizi and Pitti Galleries
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A Brief History of Political Thought and Statecraft
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Luca Signorelli (The Library of Great Masters)
Born in Cortona around 1450, Signorelli began his apprenticeship under Piero della Francesca before going on to study with the Florentine master Andrea del Verrocchio, in whose workshop Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, Domenica Ghirlandaio, Lorenzo de Credi and Pietro Perugino also learned their art. It was as Perugino's assistant that Signorelli realized his first known work, the Testament and Death of Moses in the Sistine Chapel in Rome, in 1482. Between that date and his death in 1523, Signorelli worked throughout central Italy for some of the greatest patrons of the age, earning himself a reputation as one of the leading painters of his generation. Recently restored, the extraordinary cycle of frescoes on the Last Judgemnt in the Cappella Nova at Orvieto, rightly considered Signorelli's finest masterpiece and a highpoint of the Italian Renaissance, reveal in all their force and glory the artist's skill as a colourist of the first rank and as a master of the male nude. Illustrated with stunning post-restoration colour plates, this book is the first in fifty years to re-evaluate Signorelli's importance and to catalogue his oeuvre. In a detailed life of the artist, Laurence Kanter traces his career from its origins in Piero's workshop to his late work in Tuscany and Umbria. In the catalogue, Tom Henry presents the artist's entire painted oeuvre, including a number of paintings never before reproduced, while in a separate plate section he discusses twenty-one of his most important works. Together these eminent contributions make up the most complete volume on Luca Signorelli ever published..
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Dante Revisited: Essays by Anne Paolucci
Scattered in a variety of academic journals here and abroad, these importnat essays have been brought together in a single volume for the first time. Included as an introduction is a lecture prepared by Dino Bigongiari, for over five decades the most eminent scholar at Columbia University and one of the great Dantist of the century. An internationally-known comparist, founder of Council on National Literatures and for over three decades Editor of its prestigious series, Review of National Literatures, Dr. Anne Paolucci brings her wide reading and training to bear in such essays as "Dante's Satan and Milton's 'Bryonic Hero'," "Dante and Machiavelli: Political 'Idealism' and Political 'Realism';" and "Women in the Political Love-Ethic of the Divine Comedy and the Faerie Queens." She sheds new light on a familiar subject in "Dante, Hegel, and the Marian Inspiration of the Commedia," showing Hegel to be a rich source for critical study in this area. "Exile Among the Exiles: Dante's Party of One" focuses on Dante's bitter life-long exile from his beloved Florence. "The Strident Voices of Hell" provides an insightful introduction to the Inferno. A brief but substantive picture of the Middle Ages is provided in "The Cosmopolitan Age of Dante and His Dream of Restored Imperial Rule." Professor Bigongiari's essya, probably written to be delivered as a lecture in Florence on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Dante's birth, is a welcome Introduction to the volume. In his terse, informative and authoritative voice, the author raises two important questions: "Is Dante a popular poet?" and "Is Dante a classic poet?" In the course of answering these questions, Professor Bigongiari provides brilliant insights into the preservation and transmission of the precious manuscripts and codices that passed through his hands in Florence, where he had been invited to help prepare for the anniversary celebrations. .
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Florence (Art & Architecture)
This book is an invitation to a luxury-class journey into art, to an excursion into the artistic history of an exciting and magnificent city, seen here from its most splendid side. Florence - nowhere else are so many art works of the first order to be found in such a small space: the world-famous paintings of Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Caravaggio and Raphael, Michelangelo's celebrated David, the magnificently decorated Florentine churches of Santa Maria Novella, San Lorenzo, and Santa Croce with their outstanding fresco cycles and funerary chapels, and not least, architectural masterpieces such as the Cathedral, Giotto's Campanile, and the Baptistery, to mention just a few highlights. Year by year, they cast millions of visitors from all over the world under their spell. With more than 500 colour illustrations, this volume takes its readers on a journey through the city of art on the River Arno, and also on a journey through time. Gripping essays by Florentine experts tell the history of their city while introducing its world-famous art treasures. This is an unusual book for a special kind of enjoyable art experience - for old Florence hands, and for newcomers too!.
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David: Five Hundred Years
Michaelangelo's David has just turned 500.
In celebration, Italy has restored this sculpture to its original splendor--
and David: Five Hunded Years is the first to capture each step of the way.
What started as a solid block of granite, emerged as one of the most significant statues in the world. After half a millennium of exposure, David has undergone a complete restoration to revive his original splendor. This magnificent depiction reveals the classical man as he looked when Michelangelo originally laid down his chisel in 1504. Radically new photographic techniques, including new photographic zooms, and color accuracy capture in detail every aspect of the restored masterpiece, all accompanied by illuminating background information from prominent art historian Antonio Paolucci.Art lovers, historians, or just those who appreciate a true beauty will not be able to resist such a brilliant addition to their collection.
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Machiavelli: Mandragola
A superior treatment of Machiavelli's minor masterpiece! Flaumenhaft's beautifully crafted, literal translation aims to capture the original intent of the playwright. Machiavelli himself distinguished carefully between translations and revisions; thus, Flaumenhaft finds a faithful translation essential to conveying Machiavelli's thought and to allowing direct access to the work. The Prologue explores the relationship between Machiavelli's stage comedies--part of the Comedia Erudita of the Italian Renaissance--and his political books. Mandragola focuses on the interplay between personal and political ethics, a major theme throughout his works. The translation includes helpful notes that clarify allusions, language, and context. Names of characters and places, titles and forms of address, and some familiar Italian words and phrases remain in Italian. Passages in Latin, as well as idioms, are reproduced in the notes..
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