Renaissance

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  Dictionnaire des gens de couleur dans la France moderne (fin XVe s. - 1792)

  Paris et son bassin

  Librairie Droz | Bibliothèque des Lumières

  The Dictionary of people of color goes beyond the slave trade, presenting more than 3000 individuals of color in France between the age of discovery and the French Revolution. Meticulously researched and catalogued from various national and ...

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  Jean DU BELLAY

  Correspondance. Tome IV, 1547-1548

  Société de l'Histoire de France | Home

  This volumes presents Jean du Bellay's correspondance from 1547-8. Over 200 letters and notes are included, to persons such as Henry II, Anne de Montmorency, and Charles de Guise. Du Bellay was active political player ...

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  Les lettres de pardon du voyage de Charles IX (1565-1566)

  Société de l'Histoire de France | Annuaire-Bulletin

  This is the first exhaustive publication of letters of pardon taken from the French chancellery archives. Surprisingly detailed descriptions of crimes are coupled with thorough research, allowing a deeper comprehension of the different situations ...

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  Italique : Poésie italienne de la Renaissance, vol. XIII (2010)

  Librairie Droz | Italique n° 13

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  Guillaume NAVAUD

  Persona. Le théâtre comme métaphore théorique de Socrate à Shakespeare

  Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance n° 478

  « All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. » The « theatre of the world » is a trite metaphor that pervades even abstract vocabulary; « person » derives from the Latin persona signifying « mask », then « role »...

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  Renaissance Obscenities

  Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance n° 473

  Although the French Renaissance has a persistant reputation for 'Rabelaisian' debauchery, there are few critical works devoted to analysing obscenity in sixteenth-century France...

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  Pierre BELON DU MANS

  L'histoire naturelle au XVIe siècle.

  Introduction, étude et édition critique de La nature et diversité des poissons de Pierre Belon (1555)

  Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance n° 483

  Dozens of new works on natural history appeared between 1530 and 1560, with rich descriptions and original illustrations. Philippe Glardon uses his edition and close analysis of La nature et diversité des poissons to contextualize this new interest ...

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  Luisa CAPODIECI

  Medicæa Medæa

  Art, astres et pouvoir à la Cour de Catherine de Médicis

  Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance n° 484

  Catherine of Medici's association with magic invites an analysis of talismanic images in art under the last of the Valois dynasty in France. Through the themes of magic, astrology and prophecy, this study examines the Florentine queen’s role ...

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  Pierre de L'ESTOILE

  Journal du règne de Henri IV. T. I (1589-1591)

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  Pierre de L'Estoile, Grand audiencier of the Parisian parliament, was as fascinated by the current affairs and curiosities of Paris's political life as he was by the sensational gossip spread by the political satires that he collected...

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  Marie HOULLEMARE

  Politiques de la parole, le parlement de Paris au XVIe siècle

  Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance n° 479

  En s'appuyant sur la culture humaniste et historique des robins du XVIe siècle, Marie Houllemare étudie « l’esprit » d’une institution, c’est-à-dire la manière dont des acteurs l’animent en faisant jouer principes et pratiques institutionnelles...