John M Mcmanamon: 2 books
by John M. McManamon SJ
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Sometime around 1446 A.D., Cardinal Prospero Colonna commissioned engineer Battista Alberti to raise two immense Roman vessels from the bottom of the lago di Nemi, just south of Rome. By that time, local fishermen had been fouling their nets and occasionally recovering stray objects from the sunken...
by John M. McManamon
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
By studying the funeral orations of Renaissance Italy, McManamon analyzes Italian humanism as a characteristic phase in Western rhetorical culture. By examining hundreds of funeral speeches, he provides a valuable overview of major civic issues and humanistic themes, adding significant new material...