ISBN10: 0521200423, ISBN13: 9780521200424, [publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, London] Hardcover First Edition Fadengehefteter kaschierter Ganzleineneinband mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel und illustriertem Schutzumschlag. Der Umschlag leicht randberieben und auf der vorderen Innenklappe mit Buchhändlerpreisschild, die oberen Ecken von Umschlag und Einband etwas berieben, der Seitenschnitt mit einer Bereibung, die Rückseite der Karte leicht fleckig, ansonsten rundum guter Erhaltungszustand. "A detailed history, from the mid-thirteenth to the early sixteenth century, of an Italian state, Rimini, and its ruling family, the Malatesta. The Malatesta are best known, through the works of Jacob Burckhardt, John Addington Symonds and others, for their colourful contribution to the court life and culture of Renaissance Italy. There are other sides to their history of at least comparable importance. By their representative status, as princes of middle rank, and by their unusually long tenure of power, the Malatesta are among the families most typical in all its stages of Italy's Age of Despots: in their acquisition and exercise of authority, their political career and personality, in the circumstances of their fall. At the same time, by their position as papal subjects, in Romagna and the March of Ancona, their progress is inseparable from the parallel history of government in the Papal State, first effectively founded in the same century as ...
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