Lauro Martines
Born
Chicago, The United States
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April Blood: Florence and the Plot against the Medici
33 editions
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2003
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Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence
24 editions
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2006
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Furies: War in Europe 1450-1700
11 editions
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published
2013
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Power and Imagination: City-States in Renaissance Italy
10 editions
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published
1979
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Loredana: A Venetian Tale
8 editions
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published
2004
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An Italian Renaissance Sextet: Six Tales in Historical Context
9 editions
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published
1994
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Lawyers and Statecraft in Renaissance Florence
7 editions
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published
1968
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Society and History in English Renaissance Verse
2 editions
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published
1985
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Strong Words: Writing and Social Strain in the Italian Renaissance
3 editions
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2001
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Violence and civil disorder in Italian cities, 1200-1500 (UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies contributions, 5)
5 editions
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1972
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“It follows that the one thing we should not do to the men and women of past time, and particularly if they ghost through to us as larger than life, is to take them out of their historical contexts. To do so is to run the risk of turning them into monsters, whom we can denounce for our (frequently political) motives—an insidious game, because we are condemning in their make-up that which is likely to belong to a whole social world, the world that helped to fashion them and that is deviously reflected or distorted in them. Censure of this sort is the work of petty moralists and propagandists, not historians (p. 5).”
― Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence
― Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence
“An army of twenty thousand men, even without camp followers, exceeded the population of most European cities; and when that winding horde of soldiers, with ten to fifteen thousand horses, set out on campaign, it could easily eat up, in a few days, all the food and fodder in the adjacent villages and countryside for many miles around. Such an army could not stay put; it had to move; it had to go on seeking new pastures and more stocks of food.”
― Furies: War in Europe, 1450–1700
― Furies: War in Europe, 1450–1700
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