Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (1390-1447) and the Italian Humannists / by Susanne Saygin

Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (1390-1447) and the Italian Humannists / by Susanne Saygin
Author: Susanne Saygin
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004120150

This study reconstructs the relations between the fifteenth century English patron of Italian Renaissance humanism, Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (1390-1447), his Italian middlemen, and several Italian humanists with regard to the social and political context of their shared literary interests.

Guide to Reference in Genealogy and Biography

Guide to Reference in Genealogy and Biography
Author: Mary K. Mannix
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 609
Release: 2015-01-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0838912966

Profiling more than 1400 print and electronic sources, this book helps connect librarians and researchers to the most relevant sources of information in genealogy and biography.

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Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 284
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The Pulpit and the Press in Reformation Italy

The Pulpit and the Press in Reformation Italy
Author: Emily Michelson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2013-04-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674075293

Italian sermons tell a story of the Reformation that credits preachers with using the pulpit, pen, and printing press to keep Italy Catholic when the region’s violent religious wars made the future uncertain, and with fashioning a post-Reformation Catholicism that would survive the competition and religious choice of their own time and ours.