Memoirs Of The Dukes Of Urbino Volume I Of 3
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Author | : James Dennistoun |
Publisher | : JOHN LANE COMPANY |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 2013 |
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Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume I (of 3) But Dennistoun's Dukes of Urbino is not merely a history of the houses of Montefeltro and Della Rovere, of-viii- their famous and most brilliant Court, and of that part of Italy over which they held dominion, but really a work in belles-lettres too, discursive and amusing, as well as instructive. It deals not merely with history, as it seems we have come to understand the word, a thing of politics—in this case the futile and childish politics of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Italy—but illustrates "the arms, arts, and literature of Italy from 1440 to 1630." And indeed this programme was carried out as well as it could be carried out at the time these volumes were written. The book, which has long been almost unprocurable, is full, as it were, of a great leisure, crammed with all sorts of out-of-the-way learning and curious tales and adventures. Sometimes failing in art, and often we may think in judgment, Dennistoun never fails in this, that he is always interested in the people he writes of, interested in their quarrels and love affairs, their hair-breadth escapes and good fortunes. How eagerly he sides with Duke Guidobaldo, chased out of his city of Urbino by Cesare Borgia! It is as though he were assisting at that sudden flight at midnight, and, whole-heartedly the Duke's man as he was, almost fails to understand what Cesare was aiming at, and quite fails to see what Cesare saw too well—the helplessness of Italy, at the mercy, really, of the unconscious nations of the modern world. Such failures as this make his work, indispensable as it is, less valuable than it might have been, but they by no means detract from the general interest of the story. That is a quarry from which much has been hewn, and a good many of those enduring blocks which go to make up so popular and charming a work as John Inglesant came in the first instance from Dennistoun's volumes.
Author | : James Dennistoun |
Publisher | : e-artnow |
Total Pages | : 915 |
Release | : 2021-04-06 |
Genre | : History |
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Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino in three volumes presents a history of the houses of Montefeltro and Della Rovere, of their famous and most brilliant Court, and of that part of Italy over which they held dominion. It deals not only with history and politics of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Italy, but it also illustrates "the arms, arts, and literature of Italy from 1440 to 1630."_x000D_ Contents:_x000D_ Book First: Of Urbino and Its Early Accounts_x000D_ Book Second: Of Federigo di Montefeltro, Count and Second Duke of Urbino_x000D_ Book Third: Of Guidobaldo di Montefeltro, Third Duke of Urbino_x000D_ Book Fourth: Of Literature and Art Under the Dukes di Montefeltro at Urbino_x000D_ Book Fifth: Of the Della Rovere Family_x000D_ Book Sixth: Of Francesco Maria Della Rovere, Fourth Duke of Urbino_x000D_ Book Seventh: Of Guidobaldo Della Rovere, Fifth Duke of Urbino_x000D_ Book Eighth: Of Francesco Maria II Della Rovere, Sixth and Last Duke of Urbino_x000D_ Book Ninth: Of Literature and Art Under the Dukes Della Rovere at Urbino
Author | : Henry George Bohn |
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Total Pages | : 1062 |
Release | : 1868 |
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Total Pages | : 1410 |
Release | : 1850 |
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Author | : I. M. B. |
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Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1859 |
Genre | : France |
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Total Pages | : 1810 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Bibliography |
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Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
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Total Pages | : 1082 |
Release | : 1886 |
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Author | : Gregory Hanlon |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2008-02-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135361436 |
First published in 2002. This work of military history integrates the Italian dimension into the wider political and military history of early modern Europe.
Author | : Dennis O'Donovan |
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Total Pages | : 930 |
Release | : 1900 |
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Author | : Thomas Frederick Crane |
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Total Pages | : 684 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Comparative literature |
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