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9789462988002 Barlaeus (ed. Post and Vermeulen), The Wise Merchant
9789462980068 Cernison, Social Media Activism
9789462984561 Ma and Cheng, The Umbrella Movement
9789089649348 Sommier, Hayes, and Ollitrault, Breaking Laws
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Caspar Barlaeus. Edited by Anna-Luna Post. Critical text and translation by Corinna Vermeulen The Wise Merchant
On 9 January 1632, at the inauguration of the Amsterdam Illustrious School - the predecessor of the city's university - Caspar Barlaeus delivered a speech that has continued to arouse the curiosity of researchers and the general public alike: Mercator sapiens . This famous oration on the wise merchant is now considered a key text of the Dutch Golden Age. At the same time it is surrounded by misunderstandings regarding Barlaeus himself, the nascent Illustrious School, and Amsterdam's merchant culture.
This volume presents the first English translation and the first critical edition of the Mercator sapiens , preceded by an introduction providing historical context and a fresh interpretation of this intriguing text.
" Anna-Luna Post and Corinna Vermeulen shed new light Caspar Barlaeus (1584-1648) was a Dutch on the roles of humanist scholarship and rhetoric in polymath and Renaissance humanist, a Holland's metropolis. Caspar Barlaeus's 1632 oration, The theologian, poet, and historian. Wise Merchant , has often been cited but seldom read. Their edition, translation and introduction set the work Anna-Luna Post , MA, is currently employed by into its historical context with learning, clarity and Utrecht University. Her research combines economy." insights from cultural history and history of Anthony Grafton knowledge and science with a specific focus on early modern Italy and the Dutch Republic.
Corinna Vermeulen , PhD, is an independent academic translator and editor specialising in Neo-Latin texts.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: wealth, knowledge and prestige
Principles of this edition and translation
Mercator sapiens: text and translation
Bibliography
Index
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AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS PROTEST AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
By Matteo Cernison Social Media Activism Water as a Common Good
This book focuses on the referendums against water privatisation in Italy and explores how activists took to social media, ultimately convincing twenty-seven million citizens to vote. Investigating the relationship between social movements and internet-related activism during complex campaigns, this book examines how a technological evolution-the increased relevance of social media platforms-affected in very different ways organisations with divergent characteristics, promoting at the same time decentralised communication practices, and new ways of coordinating dispersed communities of people.
Matteo Cernison combines and adapts a wide set of methods, from social network analysis to digital ethnography, in order to explore in detail how digital activism and face-to-face initiatives interact and overlap. He argues that the geographical scale of actions, the role played by external media professionals, and the activists' Matteo Cernison obtained his PhD in Social perceptions of digital technologies are key elements that and Political Science at the European University contribute in a significant way to shape the very different Institute (EUI) in 2014. He is currently communication practices often described as online contributing to the ERC project "Mobilizing for Democracy" at COSMOS, the Centre for Social activism. Movement Studies of the EUI.
Protest and Social Movements March 2019 252 pages, 4 colour, 15 line art illustrations Hardback 156 x 234 mm ISBN 978 94 6298 006 8 e-ISBN 978 90 4852 919 3 €95.00 / £85.00 / $115.00 €94.99 / £84.99 / $114.99
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List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction Case Study : the Italian referendum campaign against water privatization Connected Activism : loose interactions on social media, and possible effects on campaigning Methods to Investigate Large-Scale Campaigns : a challenging object of study Structure of the Book
1 Models of Online-Related Activism 1.1 Online-Related Activism: key concepts 1.2 Overlapping Plans: research on online phenomena, and its complexity 1.3 Recurring Questions Conclusions
2 Methods for Investigating Online Related Large-Scale Campaigns on the Web 2.1 The Italian Referendum Campaign on Water: methodological opportunities and difficulties 2.2 Online-Related Social Research: some inspiring methods 2.3 A Methodological Proposal for Investigating Large-Scale Online Campaigns
3 Water Commons: global movements and the Italian campaign against water privatisation 3.1 The Global Context 3.2 Acqua Bene Comune: the growth of the Italian water coalition 3.3 The 2011 Referendum Campaign against Water Privatisation in Italy 3.4 Alliances and Conflicts during the Campaign Conclusions
4 The Web of Water: a trace on the links structure 4.1 Investigating the Web as a Network of Links 4.2 Network Analysis of the Water Campaign on the Web 4.3 Community Structures and the Content of Websites Conclusions
5 Patterns of Online Communication during the Referendum Campaign 5.1 Online Communication during the Campaign: an evolving strategy 5.2 The Role of the Specialists: technological and communications skills 5.3 The Media Context: the relationship with non-digital media 5.4 Processes of Website Creation Conclusions
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6 The Campaign for Water on Facebook. Perceptions and organizational models in a real-digital space of activism 6.1 How to Investigate a Facebook Campaign 6.2 Activism on Facebook during the 2011 Referendum Campaign 6.3 Groups, Initiatives, and Patterns of Use 6.4 The Perception of Facebook Conclusions
7 Reinterpreting the Data: new theoretical perspectives and methodological proposals 7.1 Three Final Perspectives for Observing the Referendum Campaign 7.2 On Methods: strengths and weaknesses of a combined methodological approach 7.3 Five Directions For Further Research
References List of the Interviews
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AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS GLOBAL ASIA
Edited by Ngok Ma and Edmund W. Cheng The Umbrella Movement Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong
For 79 days, the Umbrella Movement staged Hong Kong's most spectacular struggle for democracy. Sparked by disgruntlement over Beijing's denial of universal suffrage elections, the protests first began with class boycott along the largely-scripted Occupy Central, but later morphed into a spontaneous, resilient street occupation, transforming roads and pavements into protest sites and tent villages. Although the movement failed to bring any tangible political changes, it has transformed Hong Kong politics in many ways. Not only has it catalyzed the emergence of new movement agency, repertoires and claims, it has also defined a new era for Hong Kong, its relations with China and its identity in the world. This emerging political landscape merits thorough examination.
This book is a collaborative attempt to examine this unprecedented and watershed event. It brings together 13 Ngok MA is currently Head and Associate Professor at the Department of Government essays written by scholars with different disciplinary and and Public Administration, Chinese University of research focuses. The chapters probe the political origins Hong Kong. of the movement; identify new participants, protest forms Edmund W. CHENG is Assistant Professor at the and action repertoires; analyze protesters' strategies and Department of Government and International regime responses; and also bring in comparative Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University. perspectives from mainland China, Taiwan and Macau. Global Asia One common thread that stitches the chapters together is March 2019 the use of first-hand data collected through on-site 336 pages, 18 colour, 7 line art illustrations fieldwork across the protest sites. Hardback 156 x 234 mm ISBN 978 94 6298 456 1 e-ISBN 978 90 4853 524 8 €105.00 / £90.00 / $130.00 €104.99 / £89.99 / $129.99
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Acknowledgements Ngok Ma &Edmund Cheng
Introduction Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong Ngok Ma & Edmund Cheng
Part A
Chapter 1 From Political Acquiescence to Occupying the City: A Trajectory of Social and Political Movements in Hong Kong Ngok Ma
Chapter 2 Spontaneity and Civil Resistance: A Counter Frame of the Umbrella Movement Edmund Cheng
Chapter 3 Rude Awakening: New Participants and the Umbrella Movement Ngok Ma
Part B Repertories and Strategies
Chapter 4 Perceived Outcomes and Willingness to Retreat among the Umbrella Movement Participants Francis Lee and Gary Tang
Chapter 5 Praxis of Cultivating Civic Spontaneity: Aesthetic Intervention in the Umbrella Movement Cheuk-hang Leung and Sampson Wong Yu-hin
Chapter 6 Creating a Textual Public Space: Slogans and Texts from the Umbrella Movement Sebastian Veg
Part C Regime and Public Responses
Chapter 7 From Repression to Attrition: State Responses towards the Umbrella Movement Caai Samson Yuen
Chapter 8 Protesters and Tactical Escalation Yongshun Cai
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Chapter 9 Explaining Mass Support for the Umbrella Movement Ming Sing
Chapter 10 Correlates of Public Attitude toward the Umbrella Movement Stan Wong Hok-wui
Part D Comparative Perspectives
Chapter 11 The Power of Sunflower: The Origin and Impact of Taiwan's Protest against Free Trade with China Ming-sho Ho and Thung-hong Lin
Chapter 12 The Mirror Image: How does the Macao Society read Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement? Eilo Yu Wing-yat
Chapter 13 Hong Kong Now, Shanghai Then Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Appendix 1
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AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS PROTEST AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Isabelle Sommier, Graeme Hayes, and Sylvie Ollitrault Breaking Laws Violence and Civil Disobedience in Protest
This book questions the complex relationship between social movements and violence through two contrasted lenses, first through the short-lived radical left wing post '69 revolutionary violence and secondly in the present diffusion of civil disobedience actions, often at the border between non-violence and violence. This book shows how and why violence occurs or does not, and what different meanings it can take. The short-lived extreme left revolutionary groups that grew out of May '68 and the opposition to the Vietnam War (such as the German Red Army Faction, the Italian Red Brigades, and the Japanese Red Army) are without any doubt on the violent side. More ambiguous are the burgeoning contemporary forms of "civil" disobedience, breaking the law with the aim of changing it. In theory, these efforts are associated with nonviolence and self-restraint. In practice, the line is more difficult to trace, as much depends on how political players define and frame political violence and political Isabelle Sommier is Full Professor of Political Sociology at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne legitimacy. University and former director of the Centre de recherches politiques de la Sorbonne.
Graeme Hayes is Reader in French and Social Movement Studies at Aston University, UK.
Sylvie Ollitrault is Senior researcher at CNRS- France, Rennes University.
Protest and Social Movements March 2019 244 pages, 3 line art illustrations Hardback 156 x 234 mm ISBN 978 90 8964 934 8 e-ISBN 978 90 4852 827 1 €95.00 / £85.00 / $115.00 €94.99 / £84.99 / $114.99
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Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations, Organizations, and Parties Introduction to Breaking Laws
Part 1 Revolutionary Violence: Experiences of Armed Struggle in France, Germany, Japan, Italy and the United States Isabelle Sommier Translated by Marina Urquidi
1. Introduction to Part 1: Revolutionary Violence in Context 2. A Subject Concealed
Violence and Social Movements: Fragmented Analytic Traditions Distinguishing Terrorism and Revolutionary Violence The Silence Surrounding 1968 The '1968 years', a cycle of protest
3. A Revolutionary Period?
The International Context The Student Revolts The United States Japan Germany France and Italy The Generational Dimension of Revolt The Growth of the Extreme Left The United States Japan Germany France Italy The Autonomous Movement
4. Radicalization Processes
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Repression and Counter-Movements Germany Italy Japan The United States Competition and Mutual Influences The United States Italy Japan France Social Isolation Germany High-Risk Commitment and the Logics of Clandestine Action
5. Strategies of Violence
Propaganda of the Deed The United States Japan France Resistance and Urban Guerrilla Warfare Germany Italy The Insurrectionary Model: Taking the Attack to the Heart of the State Germany Anti-Imperialism and the Transnationalization of Actions Germany France Japan
6. The End of a Cycle
Anti-Terrorist Policies The United States Japan France Germany
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Italy A Farewell to Arms Germany Italy France
7. Conclusion to Part 1
Part 2 Civil Disobedience Graeme Hayes and Sylvie Ollitrault
8. Introduction to Part 2: Civil Disobedience in Perspective
9. Definitions, Dynamics, Developments
Theorising Civil Disobedience Conscience and collective action, direct and indirect disobedience 'Performative' Civil Disobedience Direct and indirect disobedience reconsidered Conceptual Distinctions in Historical Overview Quakerism Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Satyagraha according to Gandhi The US Civil Rights Movement (1955-65) Conclusion
10. Contemporary Movements: Genealogies and Justifications
Civil Disobedience in France The cultural importance of manifestoes Conscientious objection and anti-militarism From Larzac to Notre Dame des Landes Civil Disobedience and Urgency Action and emergency Urgency and environmental disobedience Urgency and undocumented migrants Disobedience and neo-liberal globalization
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Global Justice Professional identities Conclusion
11. Repertoires of Civil Disobedience
The Constraints of Illegal Action Disobedience as activist technique Civil Disobedience and Media Representation Greenpeace, reporters of their own action Criminal Prosecution Trials as political arenas Civil disobedience and prosecution: the case of the GANVA Networks of Commitment Conclusion
12. Negotiating the Boundaries of Violence and Non-Violence
Property Destruction Ploughshares Seeds of Hope 'Pro-life' direct action The Effects of Direct Action The INRA Colmar crop destruction Anti-abortion clinic activism Staging Action Care and symbolism in action The Relational Logic of Harms The Semantic Construction of the Civic Conclusion
13. Conclusion to Part 2 Biographical notes
Germany France Italy The United States Japan
Bibliography Endnotes Index
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AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS CULTURES OF PLAY, 1300-1700
Edited by Robin O'Bryan Games and Game Playing in European Art and Literature, 16th-17th Centuries
This collection of essays examines the vogue for games and game playing as expressed in art, architecture, and literature in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe. Moving beyond previous scholarship on game theory, game monographs, and period and regional studies on games, this volume analyzes a range of artistic and literary works produced in England, Scotland, Italy, France, and Germany, which used the game topos to illuminate special themes. In essays dealing with chess, playing cards, dice, gambling, and board and children's games, scholars show how games not only functioned as recreational pastimes, but were also used for demonstrations of wit and skill, courtship rituals, didactic and moralistic instruction, commercial enterprises, and displays of status. Offering new iconographical and literary interpretations, these studies reveal how game Robin O'Bryan , PhD, is an independent scholar play became a metaphor for broader cultural issues who has published articles on dwarfs, the related to gender, age, and class differences, social order, subculture, and other topics in Italian politics and religion, and ethical and sexual behavior. Renaissance art. Her published works appear in journals including Art Bulletin , Preternature , Source , SECAC Review , The Medal , and Libri & Documenti , and in a recently-published edited anthology. She is currently working on an expanded book-length study on dwarfs in Italian Renaissance art and culture.
Cultures of Play, 1300-1700 March 2019 304 pages, 3, colour, 39 b/w illustrations Hardback 170 x 240 mm ISBN 978 94 6372 811 9 e-ISBN 978 90 4854 484 4 €105.00 / £90.00 / $130.00 €104.99 / £89.99 / $129.99
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements
Introduction: A Passion for Games Robin O'Bryan
Part One: Chess and Luxury Playing Cards
1 "Mad Chess" with a Mad Dwarf Jester Robin O'Bryan
2 Changing Hands: Jean Desmarets, Stefano della Bella, and the Jeux des Cartes Naomi Lebens
Part Two: Gambling and Games of Chance
3 "A game played home": the Gendered Stakes of Gambling in Shakespeare's Plays Megan Herrold
4 "Now if the devil have bones, These dice are made of his": Dice-games on the English Stage in the Seventeenth Century Kevin Chovanec
5 The World Upside Down: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli's Games and the Performance of Identity in the Early Modern World Patricia Rocco
Part Three: Outdoor and Sportive Games
6 "To catch the fellow, and come back again": Games of Prisoner's Base in Early Modern English Drama Bethany Packard
7 Against Opposition (at Home): Middleton and Rowley's The World Tossed at Tennis as Tennis Mark Kaethler
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Part Four: Games on Display
8 Ordering the World: Games in the Architectural Iconography of Stirling Castle, Scotland Giovanna Guidicini
9 The Games of Philipp Hainhofer: Ludic Appreciation and Use in Early Modern Art Cabinets Greger Sundin
Bibliography Index
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AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS EDUCATIONAL TEXTBOOK
Carel Jansen, Leon de Stadler and Aline Douma Communicate as a Professional
Across a wide range of programs in international higher education, students prepare themselves for a career in their professional field. Learning how to communicate as a professional is an essential part of that preparation. No matter how diverse the possible professional situations are in which graduates will be employed, they are always expected to behave professionally in their communication - both within their own organization and beyond.
In order to be able to adequately carry out their communication tasks, professionals must not only possess a large repertoire of knowledge and skills, but they also need to be able to deploy that repertoire accurately and appropriately in their communication. They have to make choices on what best suits the situation in which they communicate with others and the goals they want to achieve. Already during their training, students come across a variety of tasks that are largely Prof. dr. Carel Jansen is a professor emeritus in new to them. For these tasks, too, they need a broad Communication and Information Studies at the knowledge and skills repertoire from which they can University of Groningen (Faculty of Arts). make the right choices. Prof. dr. Leon de Stadler was the director of the Language Centre of Stellenbosch University. He is a professor emeritus with specialization in Document Design, and he also worked as visiting professor at the universities of Nijmegen and Groningen in the Netherlands.
Aline Douma is a PhD student in the Department of English Language and Culture at the University of Groningen.
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AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS SOCIAL WORLDS OF LATE ANTIQUITY AND THE EARLY MIDDL E A G E S
By Louise Cilliers Roman North Africa Environment, Society and Medical Contribution
This book examines the environment and society of North Africa during the late Roman period (fourth and fifth centuries CE) through the writings of Helvius Vindicianus, Theodorus Priscianus, Caelius Aurelianus, and Cassius Felix.
These four medical writers, whose translation into Latin of precious Greek texts has been hailed as "the achievement of the millennium" by one modern scholar, provide a unique opportunity to understand North Africa, the most prosperous region of the Roman World during Late Antiquity. Although focusing on medical knowledge and hygiene, their writings provide fresh insights on the environment, economy, population, language, and health facilities of the region.
This study includes the first full discussion of the exceptional career of the physician Helvius Vindicianus, as well as a valuable reassessment of other writers whose Louise Cilliers is currently Honorary Research works were read throughout the Middle Ages. It will Fellow (and formerly Professor of Classical therefore prove invaluable not only for scholars of Late Languages) at the University of the Free State in Antiquity and North Africa, but also for those working on Bloemfontein, South Africa. For many years she served as the editor of Acta Classica. She has later periods. published nearly 100 articles on ancient medicine, Late Antique North Africa, and
related subjects.
Social Worlds of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages March 2019 256 pages, 39 b/w illustrations Hardback 156 x 234 mm ISBN 978 94 6298 990 0 e-ISBN 978 90 4854 268 0 €95.00 / £85.00 / $115.00 €94.99 / £84.99 / $114.99
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Preface
Chapter 1 : History, environment, population and cultural life Chapter 2 : Health facilities in the cities of Roman North Africa Chapter 3 : Greek, Roman and Christian views on the causes of infectious epidemic diseases Chapter 4 : The knowledge and competence of physicians in the 4th/5th centuries Chapter 5 : Vindicianus: physician, proconsul, mentor Chapter 6 : Theodorus Priscianus on drugs and therapies Chapter 7 : More Latinizers: Cassius Felix, Caelius Aurelianus and Muscio Chapter 8 : Augustine on the medical scene in Roman North Africa in the late 4th and early 5th centuries CE Chapter 9 : Reciprocal influences: Greco-Roman and Christian views of healing Chapter 10 : The role of Roman North Africa in the preservation and transmission of medical knowledge
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AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS ARC HUMANITIES PRESS
Edited by Peter Hatlie People and Places of the Roman Past The Educated Traveller's Guide
Written by scholars who have lived in Rome and specialize in Roman history, religion, and culture, this book is a cross between a tourist guide, scholarly article, and encyclopedia. It is written for travellers in search of inspiration and information as they tour the streets, churches, museums, and monuments of the Roman past. Combining biographical portraits of some of the Eternal City's most important historical actors in the worlds of art, religion, and politics with a study of the very monuments, works of art, and urban spaces associated with them, People and Places of the Roman Past offers an informative and insightful look at the human and cultural history of one of the great cities of the world.
Peter Hatlie is a Professor of Classics, Dean, Director and Vice-President of the University of Dallas Rome Program, USA.
ARC - Collection Development, Cultural Heritage, and Digital Humanities March 2019 272 pages, 57 colour, 8 line art illustrations Hardback 156 x 234 mm ISBN 978 19 4240 154 4 e-ISBN 978 19 4240 156 8 €99.00 / £89.00 / $115.00 €98.99 / £88.99 / $114.99
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Introduction by Peter Hatlie 2. Circus Maximus, the Aventine Hill and Testaccio Pope Leo I "the Great" (ca. 400-461 CE) at St. Peter’s Basilica and the Church of John and Paul by David Dawson Vasquez St. Dominic de Guzmán (1170-1221 CE) at San Marco al Campidoglio, San Sisto Vecchio and the Church of Santa Sabina by Sr. Catherine Joseph Droste, O.P. John Keats (1795-1821 CE) and Percy B. Shelley (1792-1822 CE) at the Keats Shelley House and the Protestant Cemetery by Andrew Osborn 3. Roman Forum, Palatine Hill and Colosseum Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE) at the Theater of Pompey, Rostra and Temple of Divine Julius and Basilica Julia by David Sweet Empress Livia (58 BCE-29 CE) on the Palatine Hill by Peter Hatlie Emperor Hadrian (76-138 CE) at Castel San Angelo, the Pantheon and the Temple of Venus and Rome by Tyler Travillian 4. Churches of St. John Lateran, Quattro Coronati and San Clemente Pope Clement I (c. 30-99 CE) and the brothers Cyril (c. 827-69) and Methodios (c. 825-88) at the Church of San Clemente by John Norris Emperor Constantine (c. 277-337) at the Arch of Constantine, the Church of St. John Lateran and the Church of Quattro Coronati by Peter Hatlie 5. Capitoline Hill, Venezia, Via del Corso Emperor Marcus Aurelius (121-80 CE) on the Capitoline Hill by Robert S. Dupree St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-74 CE) at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas— Angelicum by Fr. james Lehrberger, O.Cist. Maria Clementina Sobieska (1702-35 CE at St. Peter’s Basilica, the Church of Gregory the Great, Borgo Sassi and Palazzo Muti "Balestra" by Andrew Moran 6. Spanish Steps and Piazza Barberini Pope Urban VIII (1568-1644 CE) at St. Peter’s Basilica, Piazza Barberini and Palazzo Barberini by Elizabeth Lisot John Henry Newman (1801-9) at the Palazzo di Propaganda Fide by Bernadette Waterman Ward 7. Pantheon, Pizza Navona, Campo de' Fiori Philip Neri (1515-95 CE) at the Catacombs of St. Sebastian, the Church of San Girolamo, the church of San Giovanni in Florentina and the Chiesa Nova by Gregory R. Roper Pope Julius II (1443-1513 CE) at the Church of Peter in Chains, Vatican Museums and Via Giulia by Dustin Gish 8. St. Peter's Basilica and Vatican City St. Peter (c. 10-64 CE) and St. Paul (5-67 BC) at St. Peter’s Basilica, the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls and the Abbey of Tre Fontane by Fr. Thomas Esposito, O.Cist.
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Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520) at the Raphael Stanze, Vatican Museums by William A. Frank and Clare Patricia Frank Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564 CE) at the Sistine Chapel, Vatican Museums by Scott Crider
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