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William of Saliceto in his time was the premier surgeon of Bologna, who wrote a textbook of medicine before he published his Surgery in 1275. Although he was trained as a cleric, he is not known to...
No Smoking is both an homage as well as a social retrospective on the cigarette-it's momentous birth, its alluring peak, its disreputable downfall.
The long and sombre chronicle of the Franco-Prussian war is an episode that deserves further attention. English-speaking readers have very little sense of what the war was like for its participants...
This is the first comprehensive monograph in the English language devoted to the Italian Renaissance master Domenico Beccafumi (1484-1551). The full range of this highly versatile artist's work -- ...