Douglas Biow (109 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Text clean and tight; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 272 pages.

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Condition: Good. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: First ] Publisher: University of Michigan Press Pub Date: 5/3/1996 Binding: Hardcover Pages: 216 First edition.

hardcover. Condition: As New. Cornell University Press, 2006. Hard cover, first edition. Fine condition in Fine dust jacket; 244 pages.

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Paperback. Condition: New. In Your Face concentrates on the Renaissance concern with "self-fashioning" by examining how a group of Renaissance artists and writers encoded their own improprieties in their works of art. In the elitist court society of sixteenth-century Italy, where moderation, limitation, and discretion were generally held to be essential virtues, these men consistently sought to stand out and to underplay their conspicuousness at once. The heroes (or anti-heroes) of this book-Michelangelo Buonarroti, Benvenuto Cellini, Pietro Aretino, and Anton Francesco Doni-violated norms of decorum by promoting themselves aggressively and by using writing or artworks to memorialize their assertiveness and intractable delight in parading themselves as transgressive and insubordinate on a grand scale. Focusing on these sorts of writers and visual artists, Biow constructs a version of the Italian Renaissance that is neither the elegant one of Castiglione's and Vasari's courts-so recently favored in scholarly accounts-nor the dark, conspiratorial one of Niccolò Machiavelli's and Francesco Guicciardini's princely states. …

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Printing.

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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. New oversized hardcover in new dust jacket. 4to. (7.1 x 1 x 10.1 inches) Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes author's notes, bibliography, index, and figures. 328 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. In recent decades, scholars have vigorously revised Jacob Burckhardt's notion that the free, untrammeled, and essentially modern Western individual emerged in Renaissance Italy. Douglas Biow does not deny the strong cultural and historical constraints that placed limits on identity formation in the early modern period. Still, as he contends in this witty, reflective, and generously illustrated book, the category of the individual was important and highly complex for a variety of men in this particular time and place, for both those who belonged to the elite and those who aspired to be part of it. Biow explores the individual in light of early modern Italy's new patronage systems, educational programs, and work opportunities in the context of an increased investment in professionalization, the changing status of artisans and artists, and shifting attitudes about the ideology of work, fashion, and etiquette. He turns his attention to figures familiar (Benvenuto Cellini, Baldassare Castiglione, Niccolò Machiavelli, Jacopo Tintoretto, Giorgio Vasari) and somewhat less so (the surgeon-physician Leonardo Fioravanti, the metallurgist Vannoccio Biringuccio). One could excel as an individual, he demonstrates, by possessing an indefinable nescio quid, by acquiring, theorizing, and putting into practice a distinct body of professional knowledge, or by displaying the exclusively male adornment of impressively designed facial hair. Focusing on these and other matters, he reveals how we significantly impoverish our understanding of the past if we dismiss the notion of the individual from our narratives of the Italian and the broader European Renaissance. . …

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Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:0801444810. …

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:0801444810. …

Condition: New. pp. 272.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Cloth, dj. Minor shelf wear; light scuffing to jacket. Else a bright, clean copy. In this book, Douglas Biow traces the role that humanists played in the development of professions and professionalism in Renaissance Italy, and vice versa. For instance, humanists were initially quite hostile to medicine, viewing it as poorly adapted to their program of study. They much preferred the secretarial profession, which they made their own throughout the Renaissance and eventually defined in treatises in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Examining a wide range of treatises, poems, and other works that humanists wrote both as and about doctors, ambassadors, and secretaries, Biow shows how interactions with these professions forced humanists to make their studies relevant to their own times, uniting theory and practice in a way that strengthened humanism. His detailed analyses of writings by familiar and lesser-known figures, from Petrarch, Machiavelli, and Tasso to Maggi, Fracastoro, and Barbaro, will especially interest students of Renaissance Italy, but also anyone concerned with the rise of professionalism during the early modern period.…

hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. hardback, octavo, a very good tightly bound copy in a well preserved pictorial dust wrapper, dated signature of a previous owner to the front free endpaper but the text is clean and unmarked, xix + 244pp.

Condition: New. In Your Face concentrates on the basic Renaissance concern with self-fashioning by examining the behavior of some notorious Italian artists and writers, including Michelangelo and Benvenuto Cellini, who upset the decorum of their time on a grand scale. Num Pages: 272 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JB; ACND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363. . 2009. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . .…

Condition: New. In English.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 272 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Fine, internally clean, solid hard cover First Printing in a complete slightly scuffed Near Fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. University of Michigan hardcover in dust jacket, 1996, 1st edition, unused and carefully stored, No remainder marks or 'shelf wear' (as New/as New). We will add a custom fitted mylar cover, bubble-wrap the book and ship it in a BOX with delivery confirmation/tracking.…

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 246 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 4. Cloth, dj. Minor shelf wear. Else a bright, clean copy.