Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. First Edition. Octavo. xi, 528 pages, illustrations. The breadth of the term "Renaissance" is covered from a seminal article by Paul Oskar Kristeller's "Renaissance Humanism and its Significance" to the English Renaissance with aspects of Shakespeare, George Herbert, Donne and Milton. D.S. Chamber's "Spas..... More
Leiden: E.J.Brill, 1979. Octavo. 197(1)pp. (4)pp., Studies On Rhetorical Cognition And Lifestyle In Italian Renaissance Humanism. Bound in red cloth, spine lettering white. A very good copy with edges rubbed, corners bumped. More
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1954. First Edition. Thick Large Quarto. 502 pages, index, illustrated. This work has a panoply of the greatest scholars of the mid-20th century. From Lawrence C. Wroth, Bernard Berenson, Millard Meiss, Edwin Panofsky, Geoffrey Keynes, E.P. Goldschmidt, to the tribute to the Morgan Library..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975. First Edition. Octavo. 453 pages includes major articles on Galileo; Medieval Logic and Nominalism with an important study of William of Ockham. This book has scholar Neal Gilbert's name penned on front endpaper. Gilbert was known for his work on Renaissance Concepts of Method..... More
Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1912. Limited Edition. Small Octavo. xi, 304 pages. Limited to 700 copies. Walter Pater provided a rich view of the art, literature and philosophy of the Renaissance. He argued that the rich iconography rooted in Greek sculpture was more fully developed there than when first..... More
London: For A. Strand, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1797. Quarto. In two volumes, 3rd edition, corrected. Vol. I: Portrait frontispiece, half-title, xxvi[xxvii], 320pp, 136pp. appendix. Vol. II: half-title, 312pp.; Poesie by Lorenzo 111pp. [1] p. description of plates, and 11pp. index. The Posies present at the end of volume..... More
New York, nd. (ca.1900): Henry Holt and Co. Octavo. In 7 volumes. The author's edition. This was Symonds' chief work, a series of extended essays rather than a systematic history. This work was brought together in the order planned by the author form one connected study of Italian culture at..... More