Emperor to Emperor - Italy before the Renaissance, [Mediaeval Italy was the crucible of modern western civilization when the three great nations of the world, the Greeks, the Saracens and the Franks, encountered one another on the theatre of Italy, the consequence of which, enriched by the heritage of ancient Rome, was the Italian Renaissance],
by Burman, Edward,
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- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Godalming, Surrey, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Constable, London, 1991.. see description. first edition, 8vo, 288pp, well illustrated throughout by 57 photographs (mainly by the author), and 13 figures in text drawn by John Mitchell, Index of people and places, publisher's boards, title silver on spine, dw colour-illustrated on the front by the interior of San Pellegrino at Bominaco (with the poor-man's version of the paintings in the Sistine chapel), and on the back by a detail of a thirteenth-century fresco of the Last Supper, near fine.
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- Bookseller
- Crouch Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 92780
- Title
- Emperor to Emperor - Italy before the Renaissance, [Mediaeval Italy was the crucible of modern western civilization when the three great nations of the world, the Greeks, the Saracens and the Franks, encountered one another on the theatre of Italy, the consequence of which, enriched by the heritage of ancient Rome, was the Italian Renaissance],
- Author
- Burman, Edward,
- Format/Binding
- See description
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Constable, London, 1991.
- Keywords
- Classical Greek and Roman Literature and Civilisation
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classical Greek and Roman Literature, Classical Civilisation, Latin;
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About Crouch Rare Books
Out-of-print and antiquarian books and maps
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Established 1970
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