Raphael's ostrich by D'Elia, Una Roman, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Raphael's disputed legacy -- A brief history of the ostrich : antiquity and the Middle Ages -- The eagle and the ostrich : the court of Urbino -- Pope Leo X and Raphael's ostriches -- Raphael's heirs -- Farnese ostriches and Vasari's Raphael -- Fortune is an ostrich : discontent in the 1550s and 1560s -- Curiosity and the ostrich in the Counter-Reformation -- Taming the ostrich : Ripa and Aldrovandi.…”
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Luther vs. Pope Leo : a conversation in purgatory by Hinlicky, Paul R.

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The commentaries of the great Afonso Dalboquerque. Volume III by Albuquerque, Afonso de, 1453-1515

Table of Contents: “…LETTER WHICH THE GREAT AFONSO DALBOQUERQUE WROTE TO THE HIDALCAO AS SOON AS GOA HAD BEEN TAKENSPEECH OF THE GREAT AFONSO DALBOQUERQUE BEOFRE THE SECOND STORMING OF MALACA; INSTRUCTIONS TO THE PORTUGUSE AMBASSADOR SETTING OUT TO SIAM; ORATION OF CAMILLO PORTIO TO POPE LEO X, UPON THE CONQUEST OF MALACA; LETTER FROM THE GREAT AFONSO DALBOQUERQDE TO THE KING OF PORTUGAL CONCERNING THE MAINTENANCE OF PORTUGUESE POWER IN GOA; MAP OF THE MALAY PENINSULA AND ADJACENT PARTS FROM THE PORTOLANO OF DIEGO HOMEN, A.D. 1558; PEDIGREE OF THE KINGS OF MALACA.…”
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Naturalists in the field : collecting, recording and preserving the natural world from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Arthur MacGregor -- New world and other exotic animals in the Italian Renaissance: the menageries of Lorenzo Il Magnifico and his son, Pope Leo X / Marco Masseti -- The emperor's exotic and new world animals: Hans Khevenhüller and the Habsburg menageries in Vienna and Prague / Annemarie Jordan Gschwend -- "Judge by experience and by learninge": The Fieldwork of William Turner (c.1508-1568) / Marie Addyman -- On Northern shores: sixteenth-century observations of fish and seabirds (North Sea and North Atlantic) / Florike Egmond -- Collecting and preserving fishes: a historical perspective / Peter Davis -- Into the wild: botanical fieldwork in the sixteenth century / Florike Egmond -- "Take with you a small Spudd or Trowell": James Petiver's directions for collecting natural curiosities / Charles E. …”
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