April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici
10 best books like April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici (Lauro Martines): Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture, Morality Play, The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior: The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped, The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519, Rousseau's Dog: Two Great Thinkers at War in the Age of Enlightenment, Niccolò's Smile: A Biography of Machiavelli, Selected Political Writings, Monologion and Proslogion with the Replies of Gaunilo and Anselm, Taking Rights Seriously: With a New Appendix, a Response to Critics, Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
| Author | Ross King |
| ISBN | 0142000159 |
Brunelleschi's Dome is the story of how a Renaissance man bent men, materials, and the very forces of nature to build an architectural wonder. Not a master mason or carpenter, Filippo Brunelleschi was a goldsmith and clock maker. Over twenty-eight years, he would dedicate himself to solving puzzles...
| Author | Barry Unsworth |
| ISBN | 0393315606 |
The time is the fourteenth century. The place is a small town in rural England, and the setting a snow-laden winter. A small troupe of actors accompanied by Nicholas Barber, a young renegade priest, prepare to play the drama of their lives. Breaking the longstanding tradition of only performing religious...
| Author | Paul Strathern |
| ISBN | 0553807528 |
Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolo Machiavelli, and Cesare Borgia, three iconic figures whose intersecting lives provide the basis for this astonishing work of narrative history. They could not have been more different, and they would meet only for a short time in 1502, but the events that transpired when...
| Author | Christopher Hibbert |
| ISBN | 0151010331 |
The first major biography of the Borgias in thirty years, Christopher Hibbert's latest history brings the family and the world they lived in—the glittering Rome of the Italian Renaissance—to life.The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance...
In 1766 philosopher, novelist, composer, and political provocateur Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a fugitive, decried by his enemies as a dangerous madman. Meanwhile David Hume—now recognized as the foremost philosopher in the English language—was being universally lauded as a paragon of decency....
| Author | Maurizio Viroli |
| ISBN | 0374528004 |
Este apasionante estudio de Maurizio Viroli, que reivindica al tan vapuleado Nicolás Maquiavelo (1469-1527) como uno de los más inteligentes historiadores y pensadores políticos de todos los tiempos, es el mejor pórtico de la nueva colección Tiempo de Memoria, en su vertiente de historia....
| Author | Niccolò Machiavelli |
Here are The Prince and the most important of the Discourses newly translated into spare, vivid English. Why a new translation? Machiavelli was never the dull, worthy, pedantic author who appears in the pages of other translations, says David Wootton in his Introduction. In the pages that follow I...
| Author | Anselm of Canterbury |
| ISBN | 0872202976 |
The Proslogion (also spelled Proslogium; English translation of title: Discourse on the Existence of God), written in 1077-1078, was an attempt by the medieval cleric Anselm to prove beyond contention the existence of god.
Anselm wrote this discourse, not from the perspective of an attempt...
| Author | Ronald Dworkin |
| ISBN | 0674867114 |
What is law? What is it for? How should judges decide novel cases when the statutes and earlier decisions provide no clear answer? Do judges make up new law in such cases, or is there some higher law in which they discover the correct answer? Must everyone always obey the law? If not, when is a citizen morally...
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
| Author | Ania Loomba |
| ISBN | 0415350646 |
Colonialism/Postcolonialism is a comprehensive yet accessible guide to the historical and theoretical dimensions of colonial and postcolonial studies.
Ania Loomba deftly introduces and examines:
key features of the ideologies and history of colonialism
the relationship...
Justice and the Politics of Difference
| Author | Iris Marion Young |
| ISBN | 0691023158 |
This book challenges the prevailing philosophical reduction of social justice to distributive justice. It critically analyzes basic concepts underlying most theories of justice, including impartiality, formal equality, and the unitary moral subjectivity. Starting from claims of excluded...
Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations
| Author | Michael Walzer |
| ISBN | 0465037070 |
From the Athenian attack on Melos to the My Lai Massacre, from the wars in the Balkans through the first war in Iraq, Michael Walzer examines the moral issues surrounding military theory, war crimes, and the spoils of war. He studies a variety of conflicts over the course of history, as well as the testimony...
| Author | Ronald Dworkin |
| ISBN | 0679733191 |
...si nos alejamos del estado actual del derecho constitucional estadunidense y tratamos la libertad religiosa como parte de la independencia ética, la posición liberal se vuelve obligatoria. Lo mismo sucede con la igualdad de género en el matrimonio. He hablado en favor de estas opiniones en...
Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
| Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| ISBN | 0895267101 |
For Nietzsche the Age of Greek Tragedy was indeed a tragic age. He saw in it the rise and climax of values so dear to him that their subsequent drop into catastrophe (in the person of Socrates - Plato) was clearly foreshadowed as though these were events taking place in the theater.
And so in this...
| Author | Ronald Dworkin |
| ISBN | 0674518365 |
With the incisiveness and lucid style for which he is renowned, Ronald Dworkin has written a masterful explanation of how the Anglo-American legal system works and on what principles it is grounded. Law's Empire is a full-length presentation of his theory of law that will be studied and debated--by...
| Author | Ronald Dworkin |
| ISBN | 0674046714 |
According to the Greek poet Archilochus, the fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one big thing. In this densely argued and most interesting book, Dworkin argues that there is a unity of value relating all aspects of the human condition – the meaning of life, what the well-lived life is, what...
On Justice, Power and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War
| Author | Thucydides |
| ISBN | 0872201686 |
Designed for students with little or no background in ancient Greek language and culture, this collection of extracts from The History of the Peloponnesian War includes those passages that shed most light on Thucydides’ political theory--famous as well as important but lesser-known pieces frequently...
