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A beautifully illustrated history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most influential patrons. From the late Middle Ages, the independent Italian city-states were taken over by powerful families who installed themselves as dynastic rulers. Inspired by the humanists, the princes of...

França, década de 1940. Os alemães, aos poucos, vão tomando espaço nas ruas parisienses, levando um constante clima de tensão à outrora despreocupada burguesia francesa. Nesse cenário, conhecemos Hélène, uma jovem sonhadora e individualista, e Jean, um rapaz bem-nascido que decide abandonar seus privilégios para lutar pelas causas operárias e, mais tarde, juntar-se à resistência antifascista. A partir da relação amorosa que os dois vivem e das relações com as pessoas que os cercam, mergulhamos numa inebriante espiral de sentimentos e questionamentos profundos: O que é o amor?

Transcendentalism remains the most important literary and philosophical movement to have originated in the United States. Most accounts of it trace its emergence to a group of intellectuals dissatisfied with their religious, literary, and social culture. Yet there is a forgotten history of transcendentalism that features women who were central to the development of the movement. Bright Circle is intended to reorient our understanding of transcendentalism. It recounts the lives of Mary Moody Emerson, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Lydia Jackson Emerson, and Margaret Fuller.