The Autobiography Of Benvenuto Cellini
10 best books like The Autobiography Of Benvenuto Cellini (Benvenuto Cellini): The Book of the Courtier, Jerusalem Delivered, Religio Medici, New Science, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, The Letters of the Younger Pliny, The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry, On Painting, Orlando Furioso: Part Two, Orlando Innamorato (Orlando in Love)
| Author | Baldassare Castiglione |
| ISBN | 0486427021 |
Widely acknowledged as the sixteenth century's most significant handbook on leadership, The Book of the Courtier offers an insider's view of court life and culture during the Renaissance. Set in 1507, when the author himself was an attaché to the Duke of Urbino, the book consists of a series of fictional...
| Author | Torquato Tasso |
| ISBN | 0801863236 |
Arguably the greatest Italian poet after Dante, Torquato Tasso was born in Sorrento in 1544 and died in Rome in 1595, having served as the court poet in Ferrara, been confined for years in a madhouse after attacking a servant with a knife, and composed one of the great works of Renaissance literature....
| Author | Thomas Browne |
| ISBN | 1406792144 |
Sir Thomas Browne is one of the supreme stylists of the English language: a coiner of words and spinner of phrases to rival Shakespeare; the wielder of a weird and wonderful erudition; an inquiring spirit in the mold of Montaigne. Browne was an inspiration to the Romantics as well as to W.G. Sebald, and...
| Author | Giambattista Vico |
| ISBN | 0140435697 |
Barely acknowledged in his lifetime, the New Science of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) is an astonishingly perceptive and ambitious attempt to decipher the history, mythology and laws of the ancient world. Discarding the Renaissance notion of the classical as an idealised model for the modern,...
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world in which flourishing individualism and the competition for fame radically transformed science, the arts, and politics. In this landmark work he depicts...
The Letters of the Younger Pliny
| Author | Pliny the Younger |
| ISBN | 0140441271 |
Providing a series of fascinating views of Imperial Rome, The Letters of the Younger Pliny also offer one of the fullest self-portraits to survive from classical times. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Betty Radice.
A prominent lawyer and administrator,...
'To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.'
The Renaissance (1873) at once became the touchstone for the decadent imagination for a generation of Oxford undergraduates. Pater was shocked at the reaction his book inspired: 'I wish they would...
| Author | Leon Battista Alberti |
| ISBN | 0140433317 |
Artist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On Painting (1435). Inspired by the order and beauty inherent in nature, his groundbreaking work sets out the principles of distance, dimension and proportion;...
One of the greatest epic poems of the Italian Renaissance, Orlando Furioso is an intricate tale of love and enchantment set at the time of the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne's conflict with the Moors. When Count Orlando returns to France from Cathay with the captive Angelica as his prize, her beauty...
| Author | Matteo Maria Boiardo |
| ISBN | 1932559019 |
Like Ariosto's Orlando Furioso and Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered, Boiardo's chivalric stories of lords and ladies first entertained the culturally innovative court of Ferrara in the Italian Renaissance. Inventive, humorous, inexhaustible, the story recounts Orlando's love-stricken pursuit...
| Author | Giacomo Casanova |
| ISBN | 0801856620 |
In volumes 1 and 2, Casanova tells the story of his family, his first loves, and his early travels. With the death of his grandmother, he is sent to a seminary--but is soon expelled. He is briefly imprisoned in the fortress of Sant' Andrea. After wandering from Naples to Rome in search of a patron, he enters...
| Author | Jean Froissart |
| ISBN | 0140442006 |
The Chronicles of Froissart (1337-1410) are one of the greatest contemporary records of fourteenth-century England and France. Depicting the great age of Anglo-French rivalry from the deposition of Edward II to the downfall of Richard II, Froissart powerfully portrays the deeds of knights in battle...
| Author | Pietro Aretino |
| ISBN | 1843910365 |
Bawdy and thoroughly risque, this 16th-century masterpiece is the work of Pietro Aretino, widely regarded as the originator of European pornographic writing. Determined that her daughter should not be ignorant of the ways of men and love, Nanna seeks to “educate” the naïve Pippa. She tells...
| Author | Margot Wittkower |
| ISBN | 1590172132 |
A rare art history classic that The New York Times calls a "delightful, scholarly and gossipy romp through the character and conduct of artists from antiquity to the French Revolution."
Born Under Saturn is a classic work of scholarship written with a light and winning touch. Margot and Rudolf...
| Author | John Aubrey |
| ISBN | 0140435891 |
Compiled as material for Anthony Wood's histories of Oxford University, this text contributes to the oral history of Elizabethan and Stuart England. It parades statesmen, poets, philosopers and scientists, Raleigh and Bacon, Shakespeare and Milton, and Boyle and Halley. They, together with less...
The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast
| Author | Giordano Bruno |
| ISBN | 0803261047 |
"Among the heretics of every age, we find men who are filled with the highest kind of religious feeling," Albert Einstein said. He might have been referring to the sixteenth-century Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno, who was tried by two Inquisitions and burned at the stake in Rome in 1600.Bruno's...
| Author | Pierre Corneille |
| ISBN | 1419142542 |
Pierre Corneille was a 17th century dramatist who produced plays over a 40 year span. Along with Moliere and Racine he is considered to be the founder of French tragedy. He is best known for El Cid which was a 1636 tragic/comedy. Written in 1641 Polyeucte was based on the life of the martyr Saint Polyeuctus....
| Author | Arnold Hauser |
| ISBN | 0394701151 |
First published in 1951, Arnold Hauser's commanding work presents an account of the development and meaning of art, from its origins in the Stone Age through to the "Film Age." This new edition of a classic work explores historical and social movements and the effects these have had on the production...
| Author | Alice James |
| ISBN | 1555533973 |
Unlike her ubiquitous brothers, psychologist and philosopher William and novelist Henry, Jr., Alice James (1848-1892)-the youngest child and only daughter of the wealthy, mercurial, and eccentric New Englander Henry James, Sr.-passed much of her brief lifetime at home, largely isolated from...
| Author | W.B. Yeats |
| ISBN | 0020555806 |
Here is why I find this book interesting and valuable: In a prefatory note, Yeats writes, "...I am writing after many years and have consulted neither friend, nor letter, nor old newspaper, and describe what comes oftenest into my memory." This makes for an almost casual structure to the work and is something...
| Author | Henri-Frédéric Amiel |
| ISBN | 1406508578 |
I have completed my journey with Henri. I was a little sad to lose him. Of course technically he died over 100 years ago and I could just start over at the beginning...maybe someday I will. It is not an easy read and it took me a long time to get through it but I feel my life a little enriched because I was able to...
| Author | Edmund Gosse |
| ISBN | 0192840665 |
"This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciences, and almost two epochs. It ended, as was inevitable, in disruption. Of the two being here described, one was born to fly backward, the other could not help being carried forward..." Thus begins this remarkable chronicle...
| Author | André Gide |
| ISBN | 0140026851 |
Jurnalul lui Andre Gide, este prima traducere românească integrală, a fost efectuată după ediţia în două volume, din 1996, respectiv 1997, de la Gallimard, din colecţia Bibliotheque de la Pleiade, figurând cu numărul 54, ediţie la care au lucrat mulţi ani gideologii Eric Marty şi...
| Author | Francesco Petrarca |
| ISBN | 8806179497 |
In concomitanza con il settimo centenario della nascita del poeta, la curatrice, tra i massimi specialisti del Petrarca volgare, conclude un lavoro durato quasi vent'anni. Commentando minuziosamente ogni verso e ogni espressione petrarchesca, il fittissimo richiamo dei testi classici e della...
