ISBN10: 0436205211, ISBN13: 9780436205217, [publisher: Harvill Secker] Hardcover Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day.
[Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2006]
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ISBN10: 0436205211, ISBN13: 9780436205217, [publisher: Vintage Publishing 05.2006.] Hardcover 288 Seiten Tadelloses, sauberes Ex, Ecken etwas bestoßen. - Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - The Theatre of the World is the enchanting story of Rudolf II, an emperor more interested in the great minds of his times than in the exercise of his immense power. Rarely leaving Prague Castle, he gathered around him a galaxy of famous figures: among them the painter Arcimboldo, the astronomer Tycho Brahe, the mathematician Johannes Kepler, the philosopher Giordano Bruno and the magus John Dee. Entranced, like Hamlet, with the new Renaissance learning, Rudolf found it nearly impossible to make decisions. Like Faust, he was prepared to risk all in the pursuit of magical knowledge and the Philosopher's Stone which would turn base metals into gold and prolong life indefinitely. But he also faced the threats of religious discord and the Ottoman Empire, along with a deepening melancholy and an ambitious younger brother. As a result he lost his empire and nearly his sanity but enabled Prague to enjoy a golden age of peace and creativity before Europe was engulfed in the Thirty Years' War. Contents: 1 The Making of the Holy Roman Emperor 2 A Boy of Few Words 3 Dominus Mundi 4 The World's Stage 5 The Greatest Art Patron in the World 6 The Kunstkammer 7 As Above, ...
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