Author: Giorgio de Santillana
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: galileo, crime
Number of Pages: 354
Published: 1978-06-15
List price: $33.00
ISBN-10: 0226734811
ISBN-13: 9780226734811

"In the gallery of what might be called the martyrs of thought, the image of Galileo recanting before the Italian Inquisition stirs the minds of educated modern men second only to the picture of Socrates drinking the Hemlock. That image of Galileo is out of focus . . . because it has been distorted by three centuries of rationalist prejudice and clerical polemics. To refocus it clearly, within the logic of its own time . . . de Santillana has written The Crime of Galileo, a masterly intellectual whodunit which traces not the life but the mental footsteps of Galileo on his road to personal trag

Authors:Giorgio de Santillana, Hertha von Dechen,
Publisher: David R Godine
Keywords: knowledge, transmission, myth, human, origins, mill, essay, investigating, hamlet
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 1992-08-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0879232153
ISBN-13: 9780879232153

Ever since the Greeks coined the language we commonly use for scientific description, mythology and science have developed separately. But what came before the Greeks? What if we could prove that all myths have one common origin in a celestial cosmology? What if the gods, the places they lived, and what they did are but ciphers for celestial activity, a language for the perpetuation of complex astronomical data? Drawing on scientific data, historical and literary sources, the authors argue that our myths are the remains of a preliterate astronomy, an exacting science whose power and accuracy w

Authors:Giambattista Vico, Giorgio A. Pinton, Giorgio A. Pin
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Keywords: gestis, antonj, caraphaei, rebus, carafa, deeds, antonio, statecraft
Number of Pages: 600
Published: 2004-01
List price: $92.95
ISBN-10: 0820468282
ISBN-13: 9780820468280

In 1716 Giambattista Vico published De rebus gestis Antonj Caraphaei to celebrate Neapolitan Antonio Carafa who emigrated to Vienna in 1662 to serve at the Court of Leopold I of Habsburg, Holy Roman Emperor. After becoming familiar with the intrigues of the Viennese court, Carafa gradually learned the secrets of state and the arts of public administration and of governing. Enjoying the favors of the emperor and of the royal princes related to the Habsburgs, Charles of Lorraine and Maximillian of Bavaria, Carafa was allowed to leave the Viennese court for the Hungarian marshes. His military exp

Author: Inigo Lopez de Mendoza Santillana
Publisher: Edition Reichenberger
Keywords: del, teatro, siglo, oro, spanish, fuego, tras, que, dizen, las, viejas, refranes
Number of Pages: 187
Published: 1995
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 3930700093
ISBN-13: 9783930700097

Author: Giorgio
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: terrorist, italian, memoirs
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2003-01-22
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0786711345
ISBN-13: 9780786711345

When government consultant Professor Marco Biagi was assassinated in Italy by the New Red Brigades in the aftermath of September 11, the country was transported back 30 years to the violent "Years of Lead." In the 1970s Neo-Fascists planted bombs, Marxist-Leninists kneecapped and assassinated, and ordinary Italians were afraid to go to their offices in the morning. There were over 500 killed by terrorists in those years, thousands wounded, burned, scarred; there are hundreds in jail or who have done time, and thousands still out there, like "Giorgio," having lived decades as clandestine soldie

Author: Giorgio Agamben
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: exception, state
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 2005-01-15
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0226009254
ISBN-13: 9780226009254

Two months after the attacks of 9/11, the Bush administration, in the midst of what it perceived to be a state of emergency, authorized the indefinite detention of noncitizens suspected of terrorist activities and their subsequent trials by a military commission. Here, distinguished Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben uses such circumstances to argue that this unusual extension of power, or "state of exception," has historically been an underexamined and powerful strategy that has the potential to transform democracies into totalitarian states.The sequel to Agamben’s Homo Sacer: Sovereig

Author: Giorgio Semenza
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: comprehensive, biochemistry, recollections, personal, success, volume, stories
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2007-11-22
List price: $205.00
ISBN-10: 0444522468
ISBN-13: 9780444522467

This book is the latest volume in the highly successful series Comprehensive Biochemistry. It provides a historical and autobiographical perspective of the developments in the field through the contributions of leading individuals who reflect on their careers and their impact on biochemistry. Volume 45 is essential reading for everyone from graduate student to professor, placing in context major advances not only in biochemical terms but in relation to historical and social developments. Readers will be delighted by the lively style and the insight into the lives and careers of leading scienti