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This book focuses on how inexpensive maps, produced for the masses, accrued cultural value for everyday consumers in Renaissance Italy, who wanted to own and di
Worldly Goods
Language: en
Pages: 516
Authors: Lisa Jardine
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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'Worldly Goods' provides a radical interpretation of the Golden Age of European culture. During the Renaissance, Jardine argues, vicious commercial battles were
Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500
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Pages: 251
Authors: Alida C. Metcalf
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-13 - Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

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Recognizing early modern cartographers as significant agents in the intellectual history of the Atlantic, Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500 includes around
Framing the World
Language: en
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Authors: Margaret Small
Categories: History
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A timely examination of the ways in which sixteenth-century understandings of the world were framed by classical theory.
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Language: en
Pages: 166
Authors: Baltasar Gracian
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-02-06 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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In the Art of Worldly Wisdom Baltasar Gracian gives us pertinent and pithy advice on friendship, leadership, and success. Think of it as Machiavelli with a soul