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The Good Old Days: The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders

The Good Old Days: The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders more books like this

by Ernst Klee (Editor), Willi Dressen (Editor), Volker Reiss (Editor)

"The Good Old Days" is the title of a photo album kept by the Camp Commandant of Treblinka, Kurt Franz. This volume contains letters, diaries, reports and photographs kept by the executioners and sympathizers of the Holocaust.

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The rise and fall of the House of Medici

The rise and fall of the House of Medici more books like this

by Christopher Hibbert

At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of enormous wealth, power and influence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its often bloody political scene was dominated by rich mercantile families, the most famous of which were the Medici. This enthralling book charts the family's huge influence on the political, economic and ...

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The last Medici more books like this

by Harold Acton

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Florence and the Medici: The Pattern of Control more books like this

by J R Hale

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The Medici more books like this

by G. F. Young

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The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence

The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence more books like this

by Cristina Acidini-Luchinat, Cristina Acidini Luchinat (Contributions by)

Florence's cultural history during the Renaissance is intimately associated with the Medici family, arguably the most famous and powerful of all Italian dynasties. Successful merchants and the city's most prominent patrons of the arts and sciences, the Medici ruled Florence from the 15th century until the mid-18th century. This volume focuses upon ...

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The government of Florence under the Medici (1434-1494).

The government of Florence under the Medici (1434-1494). more books like this

by Nicolai Rubinstein

The Government of Florence Under the Medici 1434-1494 investigates the ways in which the Medici established and exercised their authority. Although de facto rulers of Florence, they wielded their power within the structure of the Florentine constitution and enjoyed no political rights and privileges denied to other prominent citizens. Nicolai ...

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Church and Politics in Renaissance Italy: The Life and Career of Cardinal Francesco Soderini (1453-1524)

Church and Politics in Renaissance Italy: The Life and Career of Cardinal Francesco Soderini (1453-1524) more books like this

by K J P Lowe

This book examines the life of Cardinal Francesco Soderini (1453-1524) from a variety of perspectives and using a range of techniques. It analyses the relationship between Machiavelli, Piero and Francesco Soderini, and reinstates the crucial role played by Rome and contacts with Rome in late fifteenth-century and early sixteenth-century Florentine ...

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Isabella de' Medici: The Glorious Life and Tragic End of a Renaissance Princess

Isabella de' Medici: The Glorious Life and Tragic End of a Renaissance Princess more books like this

by Caroline Murphy

Isabella de' Medici was the hostess of a glittering circle in Renaissance Florence. Beautiful and liberated, she not only matched the intellectual accomplishments of her male contemporaries, but sought sexual parity also, engaging in an adulterous affair with her husband's cousin. It was this affair - and her very success as First Lady of Florence ...

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Echoes of Women's Voices: Music, Art, and Female Patronage in Early Modern Florence

Echoes of Women's Voices: Music, Art, and Female Patronage in Early Modern Florence more books like this

by Kelley Harness

Aristocratic women exerted unprecedented political and social influence in Florence throughout the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. During this period, female members of the powerful Medici family governed the city for the first and only time in its history. These women also helped shape the city's artistic life, commissioning works ...

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Treasures of Florence: The Medici Collection 1400-1700

Treasures of Florence: The Medici Collection 1400-1700 more books like this

by Cristina Acidini-Luchinat (Editor)

Treasures of Florence: The Medici Collection 1400-1700 reunites the most beautiful jewellery and ornaments in the Medici collection from the 15th to 18th centuries. Although today these objects are distributed among several Florentine museums, they are presented here together. The book divides the fascinating history of the Medici family into a ...

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Patterns in Late Medici Art Patronage more books like this

by Edward L Goldberg

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The Medici: A Great Florentine Family more books like this

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The Medicis: A Ruling Dynasty

The Medicis: A Ruling Dynasty more books like this

by Dr. Heather Lehr Wagner

This wealthy Italian family from Tuscany and Florence directed the destinies of Florence from the 15th century through 1737.

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The Soderini and the Medici

The Soderini and the Medici more books like this

by Paula C Clarke

Paula C. Clarke's detailed account of the careers of two brothers, Tommaso and Niccolo Soderini, and their relationship with the Medici family opens up a new perspective on the political world of Renaissance Florence. The Soderini were at different times supporters and adversaries of the Medici, whose rise to power remains the subject of ...

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Outrageous Fortunes: The Story of the Medici, the Rothschilds, & J. Pierpont Morgan more books like this

by Cass Canfield

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Theatre festivals of the Medici, 1539-1637 more books like this

by A M Nagler

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The Medici Women: Gender and Power in Renaissance Florence more books like this

by Natalie Tomas

This title presents a study of the women of the famous Medici family of republican Florence in the 15th and early 16th centuries. Natalie Tomas critically examines the changing contribution of the women in the Medici family to the eventual success of the Medici regime and their exercise of power within it; and contributes to our historical ...

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The Medici Popes (Leo X and Clement VII) more books like this

by Herbert M Vaughan

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The Cultural Politics of Duke Cosimo I de'Medici more books like this

by Konrad Eisenbichler

The articles in this volume re-evaluate and present to an English-reading public the figure of Duke Cosimo I de' Medici (1518-1572), the alleged "destroyer" of Florentine "liberty" and "republicanism". Although much maligned, especially in Italian and English liberal/republican scholarship, the work demonstrates that Duke Cosimo I was, in fact, an ...

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Il mito etrusco nel Rinascimento fiorentino more books like this

by Giovanni Cipriani

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A Mirror of princes : the Mughals and the Medici more books like this

by Dalu Jones

Art, patronage, and cultural reciprocity under the Moguls and the House of Medici; studies in comparative art history.

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Donatello E I Medici: Storia del David E Della Giuditta more books like this

by Francesco Caglioti

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Bertoldo Di Giovanni, Sculptor of the Medici Household: Critical Reappraisal and Catalogue Raisonne more books like this

by James David Draper

The Florentine Bertoldo di Giovanni is a pivotal figure in the history of the early Renaissance. As a member of the Medici household, he was the disciple of Donatello and the mentor of Michelangelo. To Lorenzo de'Medici, he was part servant, part companion, as well as artist and advisor. Bertoldo was a pioneer in the creation of bronze statuettes, ...

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The Medici more books like this

by Emma Micheletti

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