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Jeff Stehman
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| Posted 3/23/2007 10:17 AM (GMT -5) |   | tchernabyelo said...
Why do you think I have a shelf of Renaissance and late-medieval reference books? Shipbuilding, Travel, Science and Technology, Trade, Warfare, Economics, Art...
City-states, guilds, factions, the Church, outside superpowers, and a whole lot of "regime changes."
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tchernabyelo
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| Posted 3/23/2007 5:42 AM (GMT -5) | | | It certainly would.
Why do you think I have a shelf of Renaissance and late-medieval reference books? Shipbuilding, Travel, Science and Technology, Trade, Warfare, Economics, Art...
(BTW - mistype in my original post - it's Fernand Braudel, not Fernand Braude. And yes, he's French, but all his important works - and there are many of them - have been well translated. Not light reading, but fantastically useful stuff all over the place).
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Jeff Stehman
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| Posted 3/22/2007 10:09 PM (GMT -5) | | | | |
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tchernabyelo
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| Posted 3/22/2007 6:41 AM (GMT -5) | | Burckhardt's book (the first of those linked) is still pretty much regarded as the seminal work on the subject (I have a hardback copy from, I think, the 30s).
Also, a more general view, Fernand Braude's two-volume "The Mediterranean in the Age of Philip II" is a fantastic sourcebook.
Poke Wikipedia as well - take a look at the Medici, Gonzaga, d'Este, Borgia and Sforza families, stuff on Federigo da Montefeltro of Urbino, the cities of Siena, Lucca, Padua, Florence, Lucca, Pisa, Mantua and of course Venice and Rome; check out Savonarola and the various Popes of the time; Emperor Charles V; Francois II (IIRC)... oh, lots of stuff.
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MichaelEhart
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| Posted 3/21/2007 6:13 PM (GMT -5) | | Gutenberg project titles, download for free:
The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2074
And the quite fun The Life of Cesare Borgia by Raphael Sabatini http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3467
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