<p><span>Values, Virtues, and Vices, Italian Style illustrates the story of the evolution of Italian values, virtues, and vices is a narrative of longing, exhilaration, and devastation, a journey of the spirit that all human beings necessarily undertake but navigate with varying degrees of success.
Values, Virtues, and Vices, Italian Style: Caesar, Dante, Machiavelli, and Garibaldi
โ Scribed by Raymond A. Belliotti
- Publisher
- The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 280
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
โxii, 258 pages ; 24 cm
"Values, Virtues, and Vices, Italian Style is an interdisciplinary study that examines the lives and work of four historical figures: Caesar, Dante, Machiavelli, or Garibaldi, as well as Italian culture and the moral psychology of pride, arrogance, justification, excuse, repentance, and the concept of honor"--
Includes bibliographical references and index
Machine generated contents note: 1.Gaius Julius Caesar (100 -- 44 BC): The Ultimate Roman -- 2.Dante Alighieri (1265 -- 1321): The Florentine Visionary -- 3.Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 -- 1527): The Prince of Paradox -- 4.Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807 -- 1882): The Paladin of Liberation -- Texts and Their Abbreviations -- Appendix A Chronology of Julius Caesar (100 BC -- 44 BC) -- Appendix B Chronology of Dante Alighieri (1265 -- 1321) -- Appendix C Chronology of Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 -- 1527) -- Appendix D Chronology of Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807 -- 1882)โ
The sticker on the cover page makes me lmao.
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xii, 258 pages ; 24 cm
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