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1	The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini more books like this by John Addington Symonds add to wishlist The gentlewoman, also slightly blushing, said: You know well that I want you to serve me; and reaching me the lily, told me to take it away; and gave me besides twenty golden crowns which she had in her bag, and added: Set me the jewel after the fashion you have sketched, and keep for me the old gold in which it is now set. On this the Roman lady ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.95! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The life of Michelangelo Buonarroti more books like this by John Addington Symonds add to wishlist The artistic genius of Michelangelo (1475-1564) is beyond question. One the most important figures in the history of art, his monumental paintings in the Sistine Chapel, his sculpture David in Florence, and his Pieta at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome are among the greatest human achievements of all time and remain the most visited and admired works ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.00! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Renaissance in Italy more books like this by John Addington Symonds add to wishlist This book does not pretend to retrace the history of the Italian arts, but rather to define their relation to the main movement of Renaissance culture. Keeping this object in mind, Symonds explains the dependence of the arts on medieval Christianity at their commencement, their gradual emancipation from ecclesiastical control, and their final ... see all copies from $2.55! new only from $14.22! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds more books like this by John Addington Symonds add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
5	The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella more books like this by John Addington Symonds add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.02! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Walt Whitman a Study more books like this by John Addington Symonds add to wishlist 1893. With portrait and four illustrations. A study of Walt Whitman, who is considered by many to be the greatest of all American poets, by Symonds who, himself, was in the forefront of the bourgeois radical men and women with socialist ideals who were destined to reform public opinion in the 1890s. Whitman's poetry celebrates the freedom and ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $15.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Sketches in Italy more books like this by John Addington Symonds add to wishlist Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. see all copies from $11.50! new only from $19.24! \| SVS
8	Ben Jonson more books like this by John Addington Symonds add to wishlist CONTENTS Birth and Apprenticeship First Period of Manhood Jonson's Dramatic Style The Masterpieces Masques at Court and Lyrics Second Period of Manhood Old Age see all copies from $17.06! new only from $17.81! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Studies of the Greek Poets (Volume One) more books like this by John Addington Symonds add to wishlist see all copies from $15.00! new only from $24.84! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi V1 by Count Carlo Gozzi, John Addington Symonds (Editor) add to wishlist In Two Volumes. With Essays On Italian Impromptu Comedy, Gozzi's Life, The Dramatic Fables And Pietro Longhi By The Translator. see all copies from $26.04! new only from $26.04! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Our Life in the Swiss Highlands more books like this by John Addington Symonds, Margaret Symonds add to wishlist see all copies from $19.98! new only from $21.96! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	A Problem in Modern Ethics more books like this by John Addington Symonds add to wishlist Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. LITERATURE?DESCRIPTIVE. Sexual inversion can boast a voluminous modern literature, little known to general readers. A considerable part of this is pornographic, ... see all copies from $9.76! new only from $9.76! \| first editions
13 view cover	Studies in Sexual Inversion Embodying a Study in Greek Ethics and a Study in Modern Ethics more books like this by John Addington Symonds add to wishlist Homosexuality and pederasty in Greece and the modern age, an ethical reconsideration. Part one, a problem in Greek ethics, contains, among other chapters, Homer had no knowledge of pederasty - Achilles - treatment of Homer by the later Greeks; Romance of Achilles and Partroclus; Heroic ideal of masculine love; Vulgar pederasty - how introduced ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $18.07! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Renaissance in Italy: The Catholic Reaction more books like this by John Addington Symonds add to wishlist The Catholic Revival was by its nature reactionary. Symonds analyses the position of Spain in the Italian peninsula, the conduct of the Tridentine Council, the specific organization of the Holy Office and the Company of Jesus, and the state of society upon which those forces were brought to bear. Poet, essayist, and literary historian, John ... see all copies from $20.04! new only from $20.04! \| first editions \| SVS
15	Short History of the Renaissance in Italy more books like this by John Addington Symonds add to wishlist see all copies from $3.85! new only from $26.99! \| first editions
16	The Letters of John Addington Symonds more books like this by Herbert M. Schueller (Editor), Robert L. Peters (Editor), John Addington Symonds add to wishlist see all copies from $5.00! first editions
17	The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds: Secret Homosexual Life of a Leading 1900th Century Man Of.... more books like this by John Addington Symonds, Phyllis Grosskurth add to wishlist see all copies from $3.49! first editions
18 view cover	The Life of Benvenuto Cellini: Volume 1 more books like this by Benvenuto Cellini, John Addington Symonds (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $4.00! new only from $18.14! \| SVS
19 view cover	Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1: The Age of the Despots (Dodo Press) more books like this by John Addington Symonds add to wishlist John Addington Symonds, the Younger (1840-1893) was an English poet and literary critic. He was an early advocate of the validity of male love which included for him pederastic as well as egalitarian relationships, and which he would refer to as l'amour de l'impossible. At Oxford, Symonds began to reveal his academic ability. In 1860 he took a ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $21.79!
20 view cover	Echoes from Theocritus and Other Poems more books like this by Edward Cracroft Lefroy, John Austen (Illustrator), John Addington Symonds (Introduction by) add to wishlist A collection of Uranian sonnets from this English Anglican clergyman and poet with a "soul lodged in Hellas," a graduate of Keble College, Oxford, who died young owing to a heart condition. His poems were initially published as four pamphlets in 1883-84 and collected, in a single volume containing many more sonnets in 1885 under the present title. ... see all copies from $16.32! new only from $16.32! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	A Short History of Renaissance in Italy more books like this by John Addington Symonds add to wishlist Symonds (1840-93) was an English essayist, poet, and biographer best known for his monumental seven-volume cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. Since the work was more a series of extended essays rather than a systematic history, it lends itself well to this selection and abridgement performed by his friend and approved by Symond's wife, ... see all copies from $19.98! new only from $19.98! \| SVS
22 view cover	The Principles of Beauty by John Addington Symonds add to wishlist This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark ... see all copies from $13.65! new only from $13.65! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The Life of Benvenuto Cellini more books like this by John Addington Symonds (Translator) add to wishlist The Life Of Benvenuto Cellini. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. see all copies from $3.00! new only from $29.74! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Wine, Women and Song more books like this by John Addington Symonds (Translator) add to wishlist From the 13th-century manuscript known as the Carmina Burana come these love songs, drinking songs, hymns to spring, and more. Sung by the wandering students of the Middle Ages, these verses include "Welcome to Spring," "Love Among the Maidens," "Wine and Venus," "Death Takes All," many others. 6 black-and-white illustrations. see all copies from $2.54! new only from $4.89! \| first editions
25 view cover	Sir Philip Sidney more books like this by John Addington Symonds add to wishlist CONTENTS Lineage, Birth, and Boyhood Foreign Travel Entrance Into Court-Life and Embassy The French Match and "The Arcadia" Life at Court Again, and Marriage "Astrophel and Stella" "The Defence of Poesy" Last Years and Death see all copies from $4.26! new only from $11.45! \| first editions \| SVS

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